Posted on 03/28/2005 12:17:43 PM PST by LibWhacker
PINELLAS PARK, FL -- Bob Schindler, the father of severely brain-damaged Terri Schiavo, said his daugher is "begging for help," and so is her family.
Now in her 11th day without food or water after her feeding tube was removed under court order on March 18, Schiavo is "failing," he said, but nevertheless "fighting like hell to live."
Although "emaciated," Schiavo is "still communicating," Schindler said, "... And she's responding to me."
Schindler spoke to reporters shortly before 1 p.m. outside the Woodside Hospice, where Schiavo is being cared for.
Several days ago, a family spokesman reported that Terri's mother, Mary Schindler, was so upset at her daughter's appearance that she because physically ill at the bedside. Schiavo's brother, Bobby Schindler, said that her condition was so alarming he was suggesting his parents not go see her.
Bob Schindler said today that he was "scared to death to go in to see her, for fear of what I'd see." But, he said, "she has amazing endurance, what she's been through for this past week. And it's incredible to see how she's acting."
David Gibbs, the family lawyer, had said earlier that Schiavo was past the point that she could have her feeding tube reinserted, but the family disputed it.
Gibbs also said she was receiving morphine. Schindler said he had "a grave concern that they'll expedite the process to kill her with an overdose of morphine."
Legal options seem to have run out for the Schindlers. But Schindler called again upon government leaders and the courts to intervene.
"I plead again that the powers that be don't give up on her," he said. "She has to be saved. She has to be saved. And it can be done. And we plead for her."
Just thought you would appreciate being corrected when you are factually wrong. I should have know better. Bye.
or should have known better...
They still told the protestors (aka YOU) to go home and leave well enough alone. That they are still working to get someone to intervene just shows their love for their daughter.
You say,
I really feel sorry for the old guy. He is close to the edge.
Your an idiot.
Where does Florida get the right to starve an innocent woman to death.
She never said she wanted to die like this.
Jeb doesn't get it.
Castro see's what a coward he is.
I wouldn't be shocked if Castro sends another 100,000 Cuban criminals to Miami like he did in 1980.
Jeb will say, well according to Florida law we have to let them in.
JEB = Spineless
It is the same argument that war or killing is always wrong.
According to your argument, if power is used to do something wrong, then power therefore can never be used to do something right.
You make the argument that all uses of power are morally equivalent.
There are just wars, and non-just wars. The liberal peacenik makes no distinction.
I feel sorry for people like verity.
There's a lot of sad hurting people in this world they don't understand or value life because of their own hurt and intellectual shortcomings.
Would it bother you if I ignored you? I can't make out your attempts at analogies.
Oh boy, threats of violence. How cool is that!
You are a coward and a moron?
Look, you are not able to understand intellectual argument. Perhaps you need something physical like a child does.
Have you ever heard the term knock some sense in to you?
Let me tell you old man. You can hurl these cynical comments, ignore thought, be happy in your besotted state where nothing is meaningful to you and you hold scorn for others.
But no one is going to respect you or care for whatever you may have done in your pathetic life.
Thanks for you service in Vietnam. I know why we lost now.
Rather pathetic how you feel your pathetic loss is somehow worthy of marking your identity.
You let people like John Kerry beat you then and now you wallow in it so much you care nothing for liberty, right, wrong, or life. Just cause you are a broken man doesn't mean you have to try and bring your misanthropy to the rest of us.
Knock it off.
If he wants to begin like that he should be able to take it.
Two posts by me, no insults. Two posts of him in response (with no prior history) with silly insults.
OK, but then he has to be able to take it if I thn return in kind.
I will of course defer to the admin mod and you, 68 grunt, can be protected by mommy.
Always funny how some people can dish it out but not take it.
Regardless of who may have started it, please everyone knock off the personal stuff.
Aye aye
I will of course defer to the admin mod
You obnoxious mental midget.
Are you gay or just stupid?
Admin asked us to cool down, amigo.
I'll just call him stupid.
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