Terri Schiavo's Family Carries Her Legacy Forward Helping Disabled Patients

Life News ^ | 8/7/08 | Steven Ertelt

[wagglebee]

St. Petersburg, FL (LifeNews.com) -- After her husband won the legal right to subject her to a painful euthanasia death via starvation and dehydration, the mainstream media coverage of Terri Schiavo ended abruptly. Proving they were more interested in protecting people than the lure of the cameras, Terri's family hasn't stopped fighting for the disabled.

Following Terri's death, the Schindler family converted the foundation they established to provide her with medical care to helping other disabled patients.

The foundation now serves as a legal, medical and information clearinghouse for patients and their families.

LifeNews.com recently profiled the case of Janet Rivera, a California woman whose family fought a decision by a public guardian to deprive her of food and water.

Behind the scenes, the foundation played a critical role, as Terri's brother Bobby Schindler tells LifeNews.com.

"When we heard about her circumstances, the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation immediately sprang into action," Schindler said.

"We helped the family find the right legal counsel and after days of hard work and persistence, the Court finally intervened and stopped this terrible travesty," he added.

Schindler said Terri's family was especially interested in helping Rivera and her family because of the situation.

"What makes these circumstances so important is that, unlike my sister Terri, where we were fighting a husband who didn't care, Janet Rivera’s husband wanted her to live. So did her entire family," Schindler said.

Terri's family also played a crucial role in helping 25-year-old Brenden Flynn, who suffered a traumatic brain injury in a horrible car accident.

Doctors told Flynn's family Brenden had no chance of any meaningful recovery but Brenden’s mother, a nurse with 22 years of experience, refused to give up hope.

"Not long ago, I interviewed both Brenden and his mother," Schindler exclaimed. "That's right, he's fully recovered."

"People like Brenden, Janet, and my sister Terri are why the Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation exists," Schindler tells LifeNews.com.

"When families face the tragedy of traumatic brain injury, like Terri had, we are there to help them protect the life of their loved one," he said.

"Every day calls come into Terri’s Foundation from desperate families frantically trying to save the lives of their disabled love ones. And every day we immediately connect the concerned family members with needed legal assistance and medical support," Schindler concludes.

Related web sites:
Terri Schindler Schiavo Foundation -  http://www.terrisfight.org

[wagglebee]

Thank you

I don't think it was a compliment.

[VaBthang4]

What are you, the thread moderator now? You respond to posts given to others (God's little helper)?

I dealt with you several posts ago. You complained about it. So go away. Why should I continue to deal with a neurotic, scatterbrained, control freak/crybaby?

[wagglebee]

Everyone on FR responds to posts given to others.

I dealt with you several posts ago. You complained about it. So go away. Why should I continue to deal with a neurotic, scatterbrained, control freak/crybaby?

You are seriously unhinged.

[BykrBayb]

I don’t see how it could possibly be construed as a compliment. It’s what tipped me off to the fact that VaBthang4 is unhinged on more topics than this one. I didn’t have time to review more than a few posts, so I asked VaBthang4 if this a recent development, but I didn’t get an answer. Come to think of it, I don’t believe the troll has answered any questions. It just drops turds in the punch bowl, then stays around wallowing in it, complaining that the flavor is still too sweet.

[VaBthang4]

Haha, okay.

[VaBthang4]

" don’t see how it could possibly be construed as a compliment."

~grin~

Not construed, 'chosen'.

Some of us arent as apt to 'choose' offense as others.

Anyway, dont y'all need to be off somewhere saving the World?

[VaBthang4]

"Everyone on FR responds to posts given to others."

A'hem, some more than other apparently.

[BykrBayb]

Destroying the world is the job of DU, not FR. Don’t let the door hit you in the ass.

[VaBthang4]

"Don’t let the door hit you in the ass."

Got you didnt it? ~grin~

[wagglebee]

It is a long-standing policy of you and your ilk to try to disrupt every thread you can find related to Terri. The DUmmies must be proud of you.

[BykrBayb]

You haven’t “got” anyone. You’re just a sad little cretin, taking pride in being a turd in the punch bowl. You want attention, but you’re too lazy to get it in any way you can be proud of. So you stand in the middle of the room, yelling “Look at me. I’m a turd.” Why you think that “get” anyone is a mystery. It just shows you for the fool you are.

[VaBthang4]

Oh gosh lady let it go already.

Neither I nor anyone else in the World has some grand conspiracy to disrupt threads (that apparently aren't supposed to be about this chic).

My problem is with a group of dimwitted contrarians led around by their emotional mood swings. Especially when they allow the incompetent decisions, influenced by those emotions (and the media) to affect conservative unity.

You twits did more for Liberals using this Red Herring issue then they ever could've on their own.

You're our version of useful idiots. And you got played like a Stradivarius.

Idiots.

Please for all involved....just take the blue pill already. Sentry Over America serves'em up like tic tacs over @ geocities.

[VaBthang4]

Cool.

[BykrBayb]

to affect conservative unity...

And there we have the root of your problem. We rooted out the fakes like you, and after all this time, you still can't stand it. You're obsessed with clearing your name. Your problem is, the harder you try to conceal your true self, the more of yourself you expose.

[wagglebee]

Oh gosh lady let it go already.

I'm a man.

My problem is with a group of dimwitted contrarians led around by their emotional mood swings. Especially when they allow the incompetent decisions, influenced by those emotions (and the media) to affect conservative unity.

For the umpteenth time, this thread has NOTHING TO DO WITH TERRI SCHIAVO.

You twits did more for Liberals using this Red Herring issue then they ever could've on their own.

This is about a court case that is CURRENTLY going on in California.

You're our version of useful idiots. And you got played like a Stradivarius.

YOU are the one who is obsessed with an event that happened three and a half years ago. WE are talking about CURRENT NEWS.

[VaBthang4]

Yeah, that’s what it is. You DUummies outed me. /smirk

[BykrBayb]

Actually, you DUmmies are not the ones who helped save the life of Janet Rivera. Whenever we help save someone’s life, you DUmmies squirm like a salted slug. We saw this same reaction when Mae Maguirk was spared from your final solution to what you perceive as the health care problem.

[VaBthang4]

Tunnel vision: “a drastically narrowed field of vision, as in looking through a tube”

[TAdams8591]

The Schindlers took what they learned in a horrific experience and are now using it to do extraordinary work. May God bless them and all their heroic efforts.