The immediate family can simply ask for her discharge from the facility and get it. So we're not getting all the facts here, just a bunch of hysteria.
There's something about this story that just doesn't feel quite right..
When Ken Mullinax and McLeod showed up at the hospice the following day, April 1, to meet with Todd and arrange emergency air transport for Magouirk's transfer to the University of Alabama-Birmingham Medical Center, Hospice-LaGrange stalled them while Gaddy went before Troup County, Ga., Probate Court Judge Donald W. Boyd and obtained an emergency guardianship over her grandmother. Under the terms of his ruling, Gaddy was granted full and absolute authority over Magouirk, at least for the weekend. She took advantage of her judge-granted power by ordering her grandmother's feeding tube pulled out, just hours after it had been inserted.
Not if Gaddy has gone to a judge who granted her guardianship. It sounds like that happened here.
Well, perhaps ... I lived in B'ham for more than a decade; I think I know Ken Mullinax of this story and if it's him, there is no question in my mind that the family's report on this is accurate. If they want Aunt Mae, the Georgia Dept. of Human Services should be on this like a hen on a Junebug, for gross abuse of the Aunt by the niece. Terri Sciavo was a very visible case but not an exception by any means. Time to crush the euthanasia train and the misuse of Hospice care, IMMEDIATELY!
I think you missed this part, or you just didn't want to read it!
That's not the way I read it. What "facts" are missing? The family went to the hospice to ask for her release (let's face it, in her condition, deprived of food & water and being force-fed pain medication) they can't just pile into the family station wagon and drive granny to the hospital. Surely you as an astute, logical, nonhysterical observer can figure that one out. They arranged for her to be transferred to another facility. While her release was supposedly being taken care of, darling granddaughter, who considered grandma an "incovenience" went before a judge to gain power of attorney over her. In spite of granny's living will, in spite of a WRITTEN document stating who was to make medical decisions for her and the kind of care she wanted, the judge ruled in favor of the granddaughter. Wasn't part of the mantra during the "kill Terri" lectures that she should have had a living will? Fat lot of good it's doing granny. If this kind of thing doesn't happen and these people are just being hysterical, why then does the hospice Terri died at have to pay the federal government back for committing just this kind of fraud?
Cindie
Umm.... so why haven't they?
Yep.
They can't get it since THE JUDGE granted the Grandaughter guardianship.
This IS insane. When granny dies, looks like the rest of the family has a great lawsuit against the hospice if they can produce the living Will. However, it may be difficult to get doctors to help, as they notoriously do not like to get involved in family squabbles.
vaudine
They can't get it since THE JUDGE granted the Grandaughter guardianship.
This IS insane. When granny dies, looks like the rest of the family has a great lawsuit against the hospice if they can produce the living Will. However, it may be difficult to get doctors to help, as they notoriously do not like to get involved in family squabbles.
vaudine
Next time, read the article before you post so you don't look so silly.
Gaddy, however, was not dissuaded. When Ken Mullinax and McLeod showed up at the hospice the following day, April 1, to meet with Todd and arrange emergency air transport for Magouirk's transfer to the University of Alabama-Birmingham Medical Center, Hospice-LaGrange stalled them while Gaddy went before Troup County, Ga., Probate Court Judge Donald W. Boyd and obtained an emergency guardianship over her grandmother.
"The immediate family can simply ask for her discharge from the facility and get it. So we're not getting all the facts here, just a bunch of hysteria."
It is one thing for you to have argued for the termination of Terri because there was no living will and the court sided with Michael Schiavo, ignoring the multitudes ofconflicting interests, lowest denominators in favor of death, etc. It's another thing where there was a living will, very specific, and the hospice that has the information to deny starvation conveniently ignores such. Then a JUDGE jumps in by ruling against the living will after the feeding tube was reinserted and yanks it again before a final ruling.
Death is Thy Name and shows the complete hypocrite that you are.
If the lady is not comatose or in a vegative state why doesn't she just tell them what she wants ?
My living will doesn't have any specific instructions like they say hers has.