pro-life ping
He stopped voting democrat?
Ping.
Amazing! Wonder if his diet has alot of fish oils.
Amazing! Wonder if his diet has alot of fish oils.
THey don't know how he recovered but are sure that Teri couldn't do the same? A year ago they were probably saying the same about this guy.
Interesting that, unprompted, they cover their tracks like this.
And now he's a psychic who can see the future by touching.
Yes, but is it through his "Dead Zone?"
The problem with this statement is that PVS is a subjective diagnosis, there are no tests for it. That means PVS is whatever the examining Dr thinks it is. PVS diagnosed patients range from comatose to people able to interact at different levels. The fact that we are using a subjective diagnosis to decide literal life and death matters is what always bothered me the worst about the Terri issues. I read quite a bit about what PVS is and isn't and the truth is there is no way to know for sure.
But - hell of a thing
I saw a special on this man on Discovery Health about a year and a half ago. The mother was an inspiration. She kept him home and included him in all the family get togethers. She made sure to speak to him and to keep him stimulated. Not sure if this is still the case but his short term memory was fried. He thought his daughter was his ex wife and it was very frustrating to her because he would make some inappropriate comments. Still when people would ask him who the president was he always said Reagan.
Just in case the thought entered your mind that those involved in Terry Schiavo’s case might have been wrong, this AP writer is here to make you feel comfortable with being indifferent. Notice the use of terms such as “right-to-die court battle.” Remember when Terri was screaming that she had the right to die? Me neither. I found this article to be extremely interesting, because as I was reading, the thought did occur to me that Terri’s case was probably similar at which point the author interjected into the story affirming that I was foolish to think such a way.
“Doctors have their first proof that a man who was barely conscious for nearly 20 years regained speech and movement because his brain spontaneously rewired itself by growing tiny new nerve connections to replace the ones sheared apart in a car crash.”
Me: So…maybe they shouldn’t have killed Terri because there was a chance that her condition might have improved, and those who loved her might be able to communicate with her again? Oh wait, I didn’t finish reading.
“Wallis’ sudden recovery happened three years ago, but doctors said the same cannot be hoped for people in a persistent vegetative state, such as Terry Schiavo, the Florida woman who died last year after a fierce right-to-die court battle. Nor do they know how to make others with less serious damage, like Wallis, recover.”
Me: Ok, so since Terri was in a minimally conscious state, where she was awake, but uncommunicative, there was no hope anyway, and she wanted to die anyway right? Or it wouldn’t have been a “right-to-die” case…right?
“Wallis was 19 when he suffered a traumatic brain injury that left him briefly in a coma and then in a minimally conscious state, in which he was awake but uncommunicative other than occasional nods and grunts, for more than 19 years.”
Me: Wait…how was this case different?
"...but doctors said the same cannot be hoped for people in a persistent vegetative state, such as Terry Schiavo..."
Certainly not if you kill them, no.
But good for this guy anyway. Medicine learns something.
Doctors said the same cannot be hoped for people in a persistent vegetative state, such as Terry Schiavo, the Florida woman who died last year after a fierce right-to-die court battle.
One, she was murdered. Two, doctors don't know. Three, we can't even trust that one doctor was asked the specific question about that mockery of diagnosis known as "PVS", and more specifically about the dear Miss Schindler, who was so fiendishly murdered. That is, the reporter or editor may just have thrown in the sentence quoted above, based on fulsome wish and whimsy. And a deadly black wish that is.
Typically, murdering a person puts a damper on future medical treatment.
Terri Schindler didn't die, she was killed.
bttt
"He still thinks Ronald Reagan is president," his father, Jerry, said in a statement...
If only...
Why do I think that the left, the party of death, destruction and nihilism, will poo poo this?