Posted on 11/04/2005 3:24:09 AM PST by 8mmMauser
Family members are investigating what they consider to be suspicious circumstances surrounding the death of a nursing home patient at the center of a life and death tug-of-war reminiscent of the Terri Schiavo tragedy.
Seventy-nine-year-old Jimmy Chambers died in the early morning hours of Oct. 24 after the tracheotomy tubes that deliver oxygen from a ventilator to a hole in his neck became unhooked. Family members were told Chambers, a resident of the Anne Maria Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in North Augusta, S.C., apparently pulled the interlocking tubes apart.
"We're having it investigated. We're just incredulous," Chambers' daughter, Deanna Potter, told WND in reference to her siblings. "The last time I saw dad he was blowing me a kiss. I blew him one and he blew one back."
The retired dispatcher for Holland Motor Express died approximately 10 hours later. His death certificate indicates he died of "natural causes."
"Apparently, suffocation is a 'natural cause' when you're on a ventilator. We're contesting that," said Potter. "He suffocated. He didn't just pass away. He struggled and fought. And I'm just so angry."
Potter estimates it would have taken 10 to 14 minutes for her father, deprived of oxygen, to fall unconscious, and questions why the nursing home staff didn't come to his aid.
"The oxygen-saturation meter and his ventilator both would have had alarms going off. Four-thirty, five o'clock in the morning you'd think someone would hear this," she added. "That's the thing that really bothers me and makes me suspicious."
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I saw something the other day about the huge rate in Pinellas County, will look for it. 8mm
I know. There is an abundance of "bad guys." I wish someone would develop a database of their connections.
It wasn't just PC wishes. I also got FReepmail from a very prominent "pro-Terri" Freeper, telling me I shouldn't pursue the Scientology connection. Other Freepers "hinted" that it was dangerous to look too closely at Scientology.
I guess I have an "overactive imagination" and a big mouth.
It seems I make enemies on all sides.
I hope to check in here later.
I always have to read my Terri threads, though, even when I don't have much of anything to say.
I still can't believe they murdered her and got away with it.
My but June certainly had an extraordinary year-
good recap but it shows a clear sense of 'tired', or something...too much grief, perhaps? She worked so hard. The statement of our president admitting he spied on us...that goes too far for me.
They did murder her. They didn't get away with it. God sees and He will repay. I'm praying for them to repent.
I want them to pay in this life for their crimes against society, as well as the next.
I don't care if they repent or not, that's between them and God, tho I do hope they burn in hell eternally, but society does deserve justice for their affront against it.
Life is so precious, it's worth fighting for even if for no other reason than that life is a gift from God.
Those that prematurely take lives should be punished by society even though they will also be punished by God in the next life if they don't repent of their sins.
If these criminals aren't punished then it encourages other criminals do to like crimes, knowing they'll get away with them.
That was FV's quote? I've gotten accustomed to quotes being in quotes and italicized, and I missed that it was a quote at all. Sorry for the mistake.
Mikey and Anna still don't look good in drag, though. IMO, of course. :)
No mistake, I just didn't want to take credit for it - I thought it was funny. I copied/pasted her comment into my reply - more my mistake.
And you are still right, they don't look good in drag! lol
I thought long and hard about the events that took place over the course of 2005. There were some very good things that happened this year and some very tragic ones as well. Among the top stories covered this year was the war in Iraq, the Michael Jackson trial, Louis Farrakhan’s million man March as covered by the mainstream media, and other stories as well that centered on the White House suspected scandals that either lead to or may lead to indictments.
Terri Schiavo - The Most Unforgettable News Story of 2005
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Excerpt.
GEORGIA---Less than two weeks after he filed a bill that would have made it a crime to remove individuals from a feeding tube if they had not left a living will or clearly stated their wishes to their loved ones, Sen. Chip Rogers (R-Woodstock) withdrew his legislation from consideration.
Georgia Senator Withdraws Feeding Tube Bill
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Jimmy Chambers upon which this thread is based.
Scott Thomas who still has a chance coming up in a few days.
And poor Dylan, whose atrocious treatment hardly made the news...
The Legacy of Terri is leaving a mark on us, does not go away. May we remember those the death merchants urge us to forget.
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Happy New Year All
This is a wonderful quote: it should be in some book of quotations. Unfortunately, the American people disagree with us: they are a people of monetary interest and personal convenience, and it won't be easy to change their stubborn minds.
The fact that this mild, common-sense bill was so opposed in "conservative" GA shows us that the war for life may already be lost.
God Bless all who are keeping up the good fight. My New Years resolution is to thank 8mmMauser and bump this thread more often.
Here is a link to the CBS Morning Show that did a piece on Sara Scantlin this morning. There is no information now, though, other than to say they're doing the piece. I saw it, and the reporting was remarkable in light of Terri. Remarkable. It puts my stomach in knots to look at the difference. I wonder if Terri's parents saw this piece on Sara this morning. My God, how could they watch it.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/1998/07/08/earlyshow/saturday/main24345.shtml
Here are just a few other links to other stories about Sara:
http://www.politicalgateway.com/main/columns/read.html?col=266
http://www.chninternational.com/20%20years%20mute%20speaks.htm
http://www.sarahscantlin.com/
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/08/03/earlyshow/series/main713797.shtml
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