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To: staterightsfirst

Uh, please explain how someone who is 'PVS' is able to blink rapidly for a period then stop; then squeeze hands, then stop; then grimace, then smile, then not - PERIOD - whether or not it was at the 'appropriate' times ...

"she would then continue to do the action repetitively for up to approximately 5 minutes."

This enough should be evidence that Terri is not in a PVS.
PVS is a label for people in a coma, not for brain-damaged or autistic people who cannot verbalize or process commands 100%.

I was aghast when Wolfson claimed that Terri responded to some commands, but not consistently, and that therefore he reluctantly had to consider her PVS ... Aghast that getting less than 100% meant such voluntary actions would have to be called 'reflexes' when there is no way in hell they could be. Are people who get only 350 on SAT then PVS cases?

Either the legal definition of PVS in Florida is an abomination that treated brain-damaged humans as cattle, or Greer has queered the data, or Terri is being misdiagnosed ... one thing is clear, she aint no vegetable.


116 posted on 03/30/2005 9:00:23 PM PST by WOSG (Liberating Iraq - http://freedomstruth.blogspot.com)
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To: WOSG
Uh, please explain how someone who is 'PVS' is able to blink rapidly for a period then stop; then squeeze hands, then stop; then grimace, then smile, then not - PERIOD - whether or not it was at the 'appropriate' times ...

Random movement.

Aghast that getting less than 100% meant such voluntary actions would have to be called 'reflexes' when there is no way in hell they could be.

How do you know? Examined her yourself, have you?

130 posted on 03/30/2005 9:05:48 PM PST by staterightsfirst
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To: WOSG

"Are people who get only 350 on SAT then PVS cases?"

Nope, they're Florida judges!


161 posted on 03/30/2005 9:37:41 PM PST by Sterlis
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