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
I think that's the end of the road for her. Sad.
No plug! Terri is being starved to death! That's no way to DIE!
She tries to talk in response to people! Have any of your vegetables tried talking to you lately?
But if she can talk why isn't there any record of her words to the doctors who examined her? If she can talk, why can't a doctor or judge ask her what her wishes are about the feeding tube?
If the part of her brain controlling speech is damaged, she can communicate by other means. Just because she can't control her breath and tongue movements doesn't mean she can't control her hand or eyelids. I can't believe they didn't try communicating with her in other ways. They have devices now that allow people to "speak" by focusing their eyes on words and letters, or even just changing their expression.
http://www.beachbrowser.com/Archives/Science-and-Health/August-2000/Cyberlink-Interface-for-Quadriplegic.htm
I'm just guessing, but I don't think all these stories are true...
http://johnsipos.com/terrivideos/
Nice to know you have no more regard for human life than an animal. How very left-wing.
Sounds like somebody associated with the Clintons. He'll reach his decision as soon as he's notified that she is dead. Hey, what's the rush?
Pull the plug was just a figure of speech. What Im trying to say that for me in her current state is no way to live. Show me the quality of life there. She is basically a vegetable. They should just shoot her up with a cocktail and put her out of her misery. God forbid Im ever in her shoes I hope someone does that for me.
As to the dog comment, I meant it as I know of no individual that would keep a pet alive under such circumstances. It says something about the duality of man and how hypocritcal of a society we can be.
And dont call me left of center. My politics are quite to the right and you can check my other posts to back that up. Dont be so quick to tote the party line however. Learn to think for yourself.
Damn right I have no regard for some human life. I hope we hunt down every Al Qaeda and terrorist swine on the face of the earth and execute them, than bury them in pig skins.
One of the drs said that she did squeeze his hand when asked but Greer ruled that there was no way to tell via the submitted video that she had actually done it. But he's never gone to see her himself. Figure that one out.
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