Posted on 03/29/2005 9:36:23 PM PST by WhistlingPastTheGraveyard
Edited on 03/29/2005 9:59:29 PM PST by Jim Robinson. [history]
I've come to the conclusion that the courts are being sadistic, because the only reason they will hear this appeal is because they know by the time it reachs them, Terri will be dead. The courts will rule the feeding tube can be reinserted the second after Terri dies and not one moment before.
Cnn and Fox Breaking News.
anything that will improve her health will be 100% better than the nothing that has been done to improve her health the last 13 yrs or so.....
can't imagine what changes might have been made at the beginning if she had been able to keep up with her physical therapy and more important, her speech therapy that would have been helpful in her swallowing her nutrition the old fashioned way.....
MS even took that away from her...the possibility of normal eating.....
This just made my entire month. My hope is that the feeding will be re-inserted by daybreak
I think everyone should come to grips with the fact that it might be too late.
You do not just starve someone and totally restrict their hydration for 12 days and then quickly return to normal with the reinsertion of a gastrostomy tube.
It is highly probable that at this late juncture she may have suffered significant renal damage among a host of other things. If she has renal damage/failure after this, do you give her dialysis?
She would need to be resuscitated very carefully in a hospital in all likelihood, and we may find that she has suffered even more organ damage. I sincerely hope not.
This is big. It means that the Court is entertaining the idea that maybe they were wrong. One of the judges who voted for the prior denial of the injunction must be having second thoughts. (Maybe seeing Nat Hentoff, Jesse Jackson, David Bois, Lanny Davis, Ralph Nader and other prominent liberals condemning their actions may have told them this isn't just a right wing nut case situation). I just hope they think fast, 'cause Terri doesn't have a lot of time.
I am so far past discusted with this entire thing.
If she ain't there, whatchagripingabout?
As Terri said: "Where there's life, there's hope."!!!!
Thank you dear God. Let's keep praying.
No.
I wish he would have gotten involved sooner. I pray it is not too late.
I sure hope she gets to live.
Everyone I have heard talk about this seems to think that judges are lower than whale potty in the sea.
Thanks, you just explained what I was trying to say.
Pretty please let it happen...
It was grand of them to wait 12 DAYS! From the beginning, it made no sense to start starving this woman before ALL appeals were exhausted.
I thought every report I heard today said that they were out of legal options and there were no pending decisions. What prompted this?
Well, I've noted at least one freeper (HiTech RedNeck) has offered his kidney.
"She's a fighter .. prayers going out for Terri too!"
Prayers here, too! She is stating without writing OR speaking what she chooses.
I just hope that some big time lawyer is going to argue this for them. I know their lawyer meant well, but he has really dropped the ball every time on this.
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