Posted on 03/21/2005 1:18:51 PM PST by Lexinom
Terri Schiavo Still Responsive Despite Three Days of Starvation
by Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
March 21, 2005
Pinellas Park, FL (LifeNews.com) -- Terri Schiavo is still responsive and in good spirits despite being deprived of food and water for three days, her parents said on Monday. She is also looking forward to receiving nutrition and seemed pleased to hear President Bush signed a bill helping her do that.
Terri's father joked around with Terri in an early Monday morning visit and told her to get ready for him to take her to breakfast, he told news outlets in an interview.
"I told her if she was ready, to take a ride to get some breakfast, and she gave a great smile," Bob Schindler said outside Woodside Hospice where Terri lives.
Schindler said Terri is beginning to show signs of the effects of the dehydration on her body. He told the Associated Press that Terri appears to be tired, but eventually responded to his teasing by making a face at him.
"It tells us she's still with us,'' he said.
Suzanne Vitadamo, Terri's sister, also participated in the visit and told Terri news of the president signing a bill on her behalf allowing her parents to take their case to prevent her starvation to federal courts.
"She seemed to be very pleased, and we're pleased," Bob Schindler said of telling Terri the news, according to a report by the French Press Agency.
Meanwhile, the Family Research Council says it has obtained an exclusive audiotape from Terri's hospice room of her interacting with her family on Friday afternoon two hours following the removal of her feeding tube.
"This authentic audio file is disturbing to hear, but it is certainly testimony that Terri Schiavo is NOT in a 'persistent vegetative state,'" FRC president Tony Perkins said.
The pro-life group says the audio file is located on its web site, but the site was unresponsive at press time.
Just before representatives of her estranged husband Michael removed her feeding tube Friday afternoon, Terri Schiavo reportedly told an attorney for her parents that she wanted to live.
Barbara Weller, one of the attorneys for Terri's parents Bob and Mary Schindler, told reporters about her visit with Terri on Friday.
"Terri, if you would just say, 'I want to live,' all of this will be over," she told the disabled woman.
Weller said Terri desperately tried to repeat Weller's words.
"'I waaaaannt ...,' Schiavo allegedly said. Weller described it as a prolonged yell that was loud enough that police stationed nearby entered the hospice room.
"She just started yelling, 'I waaaannt, I waaaannt,'" Weller explained.
At that point, police removed Weller from Terri's hospice room and, later, her feeding tube was removed.
Related web sites:
Terri's parents - http://www.terrisfight.org
Family Research Council - http://www.frc.org
Pull what plug??
I agree with you whole-heartedly. Deny him golf at the Country Club, and lock up the liquor cabinet until a ruling is made. Come on this woman is brain damaged not brain dead. Feed her already!!!!
there is no "plug", that is the problemmmm
there is no "plug"
If she can talk, why can't she eat? Why haven't they just wheeled her into the courtroom? That would seem to do it.
You would think so, by the way she's described on TV and in print media.
The judge passed the word that he is working as fast as he can and for Terri to "put some ice on it"!
She can't eat because she's not had the therapy which can restore her swalling abilities.
It's stunning how her lack of improvement - without therapy - is being used as an argument to kill her ("let her die" is specious because she isn't terminal).
What does that mean...?
I haven't been following this closely today. But what happens if the federal judge rules that the tube must remain detached?
She has gone three days without food.
She has gone three days without water. Removal of the feeding tube means that Terri will die of thirst.
That's what Bill Clinton said to Juanita Broderick in the hotel room after he attacked and raped her.
is that a real quote fromt he judge?
Yes. That is Judge George W. Greer in court in 2001.
"Pull the plug"
Another case of Cranial Rectosis!
Becasue Michael won't allow her to be fed solid food. Carla Iyer signed an affidavit that she fed terri Jell-O. But it would anger Schiavo if he found out.
Sounds like her body has not given up on the fight for life.
"...but in this case i think they should pull the plug."
I guess you just heard about this case this morning. Otherwise you would not make such a blatantly uninformed statement. There is no "plug."
This is very good news!
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