Posted on 11/07/2003 7:54:47 PM PST by sweetliberty
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Link to article on Michael Schiavo from hometown newspaper, information on death by starvation and dehydration, information on hospice eligibility and hospice and medicare/medicaid fraud, e-mail address for Judge Greer, transcript of Larry King Live interview with Michael Schiavo and George Felos, Terri's address at the hospice and the address for the foundation, to send cards for Terri's birthday (December 3), transcript of O'Reilly interview with Kate Adamson, e-mail addresses for Florida legislature, transcript of Abrams Report interview with George Felos and Pam Anderson, transcription of Terri's bone scan, legalese for dummies version of Gov. Bush's motion to dismiss Sciavo's suit against the Constitutionality of Terri's Law, link to FatherOfLiberty's research on HBOT (Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy), links to ACLJ involvement in Schiavo case and Father Rob Johansen's daily update.
There are four other relevant posts that I want to highlight here in case anyone missed them or didn't get pinged. These are a general Terri thread troll alert, an especially thoughtful post about the sincere effort that FReepers are making in Terri's behalf, the Father's Love Letter , and remarks made by Jim Robinson on this issue and reposted here by lonevoice.
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This thread serves as a place for posting all new general information and references, along with links following Terri's case, plus information on cable news and talk radio shows dealing with the issue, court cases and press releases. This is also the place to post contact information, prayers and general discussion.
If you have something that qualifies as BREAKING NEWS or FRONT PAGE NEWS, please post it on a separate thread in that category in order to give it maximum exposure and then post a link to the article/thread here so that it will be included in the next update of links. Also, if you post links to articles from original sources and there is also a thread on FR, please link to the FR thread. Many original links become corrupt over time and we want to be able to access the information at will.
There was a tremendous amount of information posted on the previous thread. For anyone who hasn't been following the daily threads, links to relevant posts and information from the previous thread are contained in the body of the present one. I have found that very helpful in trying to find something later. You people are doing a spectacular job of getting information out and also in helping to keep all of us updated here. What a great joint effort. This fight, to me, illustrates beautifully what Free Republic is about and what it means to be a FReeper. Way to go FRiends. Keep up the good work!
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Pro-Life Group Questions 'Quality of Life' Premise in Schiavo Case
Judge Lets Parents Challenge Custody of Terri Schiavo
Dean blasts governor over Schiavo case
Husband Must Defend His Guardianship of Terri Schiavo
Judge Bans Terri Schiavo's Parents From Legal Battle
Dean 'Appalled' That Florida Lawmakers Saved Schiavo
A Woman's Life Versus an Inept Press (Nat Hentoff on Terri Schiavo
Terri Schiavo Case: Gov. Bush Asks To Meet New Guardian
Terri Schiavo Case: Creditable Witnesses & the 1st Guardian
Judge Rejects Bush Effort in Schiavo Case
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More on Terry Wallis, who emerged from a coma after 19 years, in the news today:
Coma patient Terry Wallis gets help with a drink from his mother Angelee Wallis at Stone County Nursing and Rehab Center in Mountain View, Ark, last July. Terry, who had been in a coma after a 1984 automobile accident, began talking in June 2003.
Foes in comatose debate find beliefs impossible to prove
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - On the surface, it seems so simple: Why end a brain-damaged Florida woman's life when an Arkansas man this summer emerged from a yearslong stupor and asked for a Pepsi?
But answers among doctors show how complex the Terri Schiavo question really is, especially when compared to Terry Wallis, who spoke in June for the first time in 19 years.
"Some people have tried to compare these two and say that he is proof that she can recover," said Dr. James Zini, the Wallis family doctor. "But you cannot prove that."
Schiavo is at the center of a battle among her parents, her husband and Florida Gov. Jeb Bush, who ordered a feeding tube returned to Schiavo's body after her husband won a court order that it be removed.
A chemical imbalance shut down her heart, causing brain damage that pushed her into what some doctors say is a vegetative state.
Wallis, meanwhile, suffered head injuries in a car accident and slipped into a coma for a few months before emerging into a long fog that ended this summer - though his brain function remains limited.
Doctors say that despite several similarities, the two cases have little in common medically.
"Her injury appears to be more significant than Terry's," Zini said.
In addition, the media's imprecise use of terms such as "coma" and "vegetative state" have unfairly blurred the lines between the two cases, said Dr. Michael Wienir, associate clinical professor of neurology at UCLA.
"These are complicated terms that deal with awareness of environment, cognitive capability and intellectual function," said Wienir, who consulted on the Wallis case at the end of the summer.
The American Academy of Neurology sets guidelines for states of consciousness. Wienir describes two separate scales for people with brain injury, one for responsiveness and another for consciousness or brain activity.
"Coma can be thought of as an on-off switch with a dimmer," he said. "The levels between on and off are awareness. But then, to be human, there must be cognitive ability, the ability to use language and think."
The awareness scale is used for a short-term diagnosis. If the person's only response to pressure is a reflex action and nothing else, he or she is in a coma. A patient in a "stupor" can be briefly aroused but is still not aware.
The consciousness scale is used to describe longer-term mental status. If the patient isn't arousable and not aware and doesn't follow normal sleep patterns, he or she is comatose.
Once the eyes open, he or she is said to have come out of a coma, but may remain in a "vegetative state," incapable of responding voluntarily. After a month, the term "persistent vegetative state" is used; after a year, "permanent vegetative state" may be the diagnosis.
"When a patient is comatose, the switch is off; when they're vegetative, the current is on but all the lamps are burned out," Wienir said.
A third status, "minimally conscious state," has been added recently to describe people who display inconsistent but clearly discernible evidence of consciousness.
Wienir has only seen Schiavo in home videos shown on television, but he believes she displayed at least minimal consciousness.
Wienir said Wallis was probably fully conscious almost immediately after coming out of his coma in the fall of 1984 and was simply too brain-damaged to communicate for some time.
Also, Wallis was placed on the anti-depressant Paxil just months before he began talking again, which Wienir suggested may have helped him overcome other hindrances to speaking.
"Neither Terri Schiavo now, nor Terry Wallis before he began to talk again, were in comas," Wienir said. "And my supposition is that Mrs. Schiavo is even a step above being vegetative, but she is in much worse shape than Terry. It's highly improbable that she would be rehabilitatable."
Still, some similarities are striking.
Both are 39 years old, suffered serious brain injuries as young adults and lived for more than a decade with their eyes open but their brains apparently closed to the world around them.
Both went from vibrant and attractive to middle-aged invalids with sagging facial features.
Schiavo has been on a feeding tube throughout. Wallis was on a feeding tube for the first three months after his accident. Doctors said he wouldn't take food by mouth, but his mother, Angilee Wallis, said she coaxed him to drink some broth on Thanksgiving Day 1984.
Both had family members who fought for them against doctors or other family, insisting they were responsive. For Wallis it was grunts at the mention of a car he didn't like. For Schiavo, it was her eyes following balloons and smiles after kisses from her father.
But medical experts in Florida have testified in Schiavo's right-to-die case that she is in a persistent vegetative state, which means she cannot possibly respond to the outside world voluntarily. Zini and other doctors who diagnosed Wallis were not convinced for many years that Wallis' utterances were voluntary.
The similarities even piqued the interest of Wallis' daughter, Amber, who was born just before his accident and has recently broken away from Wallis' estranged wife to participate in his daily care.
Angilee Wallis says Amber e-mailed Schiavo's parents, touched by their fight against Michael Schiavo, the husband who wants to remove Terri's feeding tube.
Angilee says she thinks parents know more than spouses about their children's well-being, although there are more legal bonds for spouses than in the parent-adult child relationship.
But Wienir and Zini, both of whom say they hope Schiavo keeps her feeding tube as long as her family wants it, said it is important to separate emotion from the medical facts.
Wallis' sister, Tammy Baze, was able to take that to heart.
"I never give up," said Baze, who was told by St. Louis doctors that she would need a heart and liver transplant and then found out she was fine just a few weeks before Wallis started talking again.
"But I couldn't really give an opinion on (Schiavo) because I'd have to know the person. Each one's different, and even the doctors can't know for sure whether they can recover."
Answers everywhere, proof impossible in debate over comas -
All sides in debate over comatose find beliefs hard to prove -
Media's imprecise use of terms such as "coma" and "vegetative state" have unfairly blurred the lines between the two cases, said Dr. Michael Wienir, UCLA associate professor of neurology, on deceptive, imprecise terms like'coma' and 'vegetative' state. "These are complicated terms that deal with awareness of environment, cognitive capability and intellectual function," said Wienir, who consulted on the Wallis case at the end of the summer.
Attorney claims a beating may have caused Schiavo's coma
An attorney for the husband of Terri Schiavo calls the allegations ''garbage.''
By WILLIAM R. LEVESQUE, © St. Petersburg Times
published November 13, 2002
A lawyer representing Terri Schiavo's parents said in a legal motion filed Tuesday that newly discovered evidence may suggest someone caused Mrs. Schiavo's persistent vegetative state in 1990 with a beating that broke several of her bones.
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Judge: Remove woman's feeding tube
Posted: November 22, 2002
By Diana Lynne
...In the words of an unnamed physician who reviewed the report at Anderson's request, "Somebody worked her over real good."
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Florida Woman to Be Allowed to Die Despite Family's Wishes
By Jeff Johnson
CNSNews.com Congressional Bureau Chief
August 05, 2003
...Three physicians have testified that, based upon the bone scan, Terri appeared to have been physically assaulted. The injuries they identified included "trauma to her ribs, her pelvic area, L1 vertebrae, spine, both knees and both ankles...a broken femur and a broken back."
Felos and Michael Schiavo's doctors also dispute those claims.
"What that bone scan shows is...an accumulation of calcium deposits in the joints," Felos explained.
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In 1998, Terri Schiavo's first guardian ad litem filed a report on her case. It makes for interesting reading today.
by Wesley J. Smith
11/04/2003
As of April 4, 1998, Terri's trust fund held $713,828.85 [he received $750,000 + an additional $350,000 for himself in 1993; in May 1998, Schiavo hired Felos, so in a period of 5 years' time, only $37,000 had been spent allegedly on Terri; subsequent to Schiavo hiring Felos, and within approx. 3 years, almost $680,000 has been spent]. "Thus," wrote Pearse, "Mr. Schiavo will realize a substantial and fairly immediate financial gain if his application for withdrawal of life support [tube-supplied food and water] is granted." (Schiavo now claims that there is only $50,000 left in the account, the bulk of the money having gone to pay his attorneys.)
Sherman was pro-life. Period.
When you whine and complain about the grevious material losses he inflicted on the South, where he single-handedly destroyed the idolatorous pillars of pride the pre-bellum South was unwisely built on ... all you all sound like Micheal Schiavo and his camp. Pride in material things is more important to you than life?
No, she's not. But, I still can't find ANY Dr. Caplan's in Florida, except a pediatrician.
Yes, but at this time, Connors isn't up against Greer. It is Baird, I believe, who denied the motion to dismiss the case against Jeb.
He is eerily similar to Scott Peterson. The only difference is that in this case, it is the victim who is on trial and is facing the deatth penalty.
This is probably the same source as Lone Voice, but here's a link: Terri's Medical Fund is Being Used To Facilitate Her Death
Oh well, I guess that settles it then. Felos says it's garbage. I suppose in Greer's court, that is proof enough. Scary.
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This "Judge" is more outrageous than Felos.
By WILLIAM R. LEVESQUE, Times Staff Writer
© St. Petersburg Times
published November 13, 2002
A lawyer representing Terri Schiavo's parents said in a legal motion filed Tuesday that newly discovered evidence may suggest someone caused Mrs. Schiavo's persistent vegetative state in 1990 with a beating that broke several of her bones.
In addition, attorney Pat Anderson said the thermostat in Mrs. Schiavo's hospice room had recently been turned down to 64 degrees, indicating someone may be trying to induce pneumonia in a plot to kill her.
To make sure attorneys have enough time to investigate the allegations, the motion asks a judge to delay a pending decision on whether Mrs. Schiavo's feeding tube should be removed.
"My purpose here is to make sure all the facts are before the court," Anderson said Tuesday.
George Felos, an attorney representing Mrs. Schiavo's husband, Michael Schiavo, said the new allegations are ridiculous and are no reason to delay the judge's decision.
"What it is, is garbage," Felos said. "It's very convenient to allege anything. It's another thing proving it. It's all totally bogus."
Pinellas-Pasco Circuit Judge George Greer has scheduled a hearing Friday to discuss the motion with attorneys in a right-to-die case that has attracted national attention.
The judge recently concluded a hearing to take testimony from six doctors about Mrs. Schiavo's condition and whether new medical treatment holds any hope of improving her condition. He has said he expects to make a ruling by the end of this month.
Anderson said in the new motion that she recently discovered a 1991 bone scan, taken just over a year after Mrs. Schiavo's collapse from a heart attack, showing that Mrs. Schiavo had several bone fractures, including a compression fracture of a thigh bone.
The motion said three physicians have reviewed the record, including one who said, "Somebody worked her over real good."
Felos said the fact that Mrs. Schiavo had been in a paralyzed state and that she was being given antiseizure medication contributed to osteoporosis, which leads to degenerative bone loss and minute fractures.
"This is something the other side has had for three years," Felos said.
"Felos said the fact that Mrs. Schiavo had been in a paralyzed state and that she was being given antiseizure medication contributed to osteoporosis, which leads to degenerative bone loss and minute fractures."
A broken femur?? C'mon George. You're gonna have to do better than that.
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