Comments Posted By judgemc
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HEY MOONBATS! HERE'S SOME MORE PEOPLE YOU CAN KILL!
Most of those 50 neurologists are not really neurologists. Check out their credentials. (acupuncture will not "cure" Terri Schiavo. And I'm sorry if I dumbed down the language I use too far for you, but not everyone is as pretentious as you seem to be. Kate Ademson had a localized hemmoragic stroke. Her brain eventually "rewired" itself. Terri Schiavo's case is not even remotely similar in any aspect. Ms. Ademson's brain was never completly deprived of oxygen. Terri's was deprived of oxygen for almost 15 minutes, her heart stopped, and she was shocked back to "lif." this affected her whole brain, not a localized area. Which is why medical decisions are made on a case by case basis.
Comment Posted By judgemc On 22.03.2005 @ 19:49
Kate Adamson still had a brain. Terri Schiavo does not. There is a big black hole where her brain used to be.
Comment Posted By judgemc On 21.03.2005 @ 20:31
WHAT IS IT LIKE TO STARVE TO DEATH?
Raven's website is nice, but it has nothing to do with MRS. Schiavo's CT scan.
My grandmother died last year from dehydration. She stopped eating and refused to drink anything. She would drift in and out of consiousness. I spent everyday with her during the last two weeks of her life begging her to eat somthing. I would ask her constantly if she was hungry. She always said no. Her skin was so thin the nurses could not put an I.V. in to hydrate her. She fought any help the nurses tried to give her. It was actually kind of funny to watch my granmother who weighed maybe 100 lbs. smacking the 250 phlabotimist and calling him a vampire whenever her tried to do a blood draw. She called those family who were there and told us "no more! You need to let me go!" I held her hand when she took her last breath.
No body questioned her descision. None of the nurses quesiton the families descision. In the state I live in it would have been extreamly easy to desclare her incompetent and override her choices, but we didn't.
What people are having such a hard time with is that Terri was in the "prime" of her life when this tragedy struck. She is young an very photogenic so its easy to get emotionally invovled.
Two years before I had to make that same type of descision for my firstborn daughter. It was much easier to let my grandmother go than my daughter. You don't want to give up hope. But letting them die is not giving up hope it is saying I love you enough to say gooby even though it hurts more than anything in the world.
Terri schiavo's parents scare me. Thier testimony in the first trial was frightening. Her father would cut off her limbs to keep her alive. And her mother testified that she didn't care if Terri had a written directive she would fight to keep her "alive" anyway. That is not the aurguments of two people who have Terri's best intrests in mind. They are treating Terri like she is a golden calf and worshipping at her beside.
I know this post is going to ilicit some angry responses. Keep in mind that I hav not once called anyof you any names, yet you cannot refrain from doing the same to me. I am not a "compassion Nazi" whatever that means. What I am ,besides being in the leagal proffesion, is a councilor for a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit. While I usually help those whose infants have entered the world too early (All five of my children did, only one is living.) or under distress, I sometimes council those whose older children have been injured.
It is always harder to even think of disconnecting a child from life support, than a elderly adult. Call it agism if you will, but it seems to fit better with how people view the natural order of things.
Comment Posted By judgemc On 23.03.2005 @ 12:22
I wouldn't exactly beleive what Dr. Boyle says either. That is not a shunt in Terri Schiavo's CT scan.
Comment Posted By judgemc On 22.03.2005 @ 19:39
I did read something besides the talking points. I've read the entire case from first summons and complaint to the latest filing in the 11th circuit. Have YOU read anything besides what you obtained off the web?
Comment Posted By judgemc On 22.03.2005 @ 19:29
Have any of your people looked at Terri's CAT scans? If you have you would notice that she doesn't have a brain. In order for a doctor to do an MRI to look for brain activity there has to be a brain that has activity. And as for comparing her to an animal (we wouldn't starve a dog like that) you are absolutly correct! Had Terri been a dog she would have been painlessly euthanised long before now. This "Cult of Life" I've seen lately in the news scares the hell out of me. I'm so glad that my families madical crises have not made national news or garnered the attention of a Bush.
Comment Posted By judgemc On 21.03.2005 @ 20:26
