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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As a taxpayer, I say again, I want my money back.
First GREER with the death worshippers and now DOWNEY, looking at porn but he's not a pervert if you believe a Ft. Myers psychologist.
Ft Myers is pretty far away from here. I suppose they couldn't find a psychologist up here who was willing to evaluate DOWNEY or possibly their fees were too high for Chief Judge Demers to have my taxes pay for.
PINELLAS COUNTY, enter at your own risk...
Bay News 9 is conducting a poll to see who its viewers think is the most important person of the year.
Terri Schiavo is in 2nd place with 28%.
Jessica Lunsford is in 1st with 45%.
The link to the Bay News 9 poll is http://www.baynews9.com/ViewerCenter.html
House Representative Deborah Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) was one of the 22 Congressmen who voted on Dec 15th against displaying the symbols and traditions of Christmas.
Read the FR post 22 Congressman Hate Christmas
Wasserman Schultz also voted against having Terri's feeding tube re-inserted. She believed that Michael Schiavo was a caring & loving husband who was looking out for Terri's best interest.
Merry CHRISTmas everybody!!
You might be interested in Post #2684 at this thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-backroom/1543993/posts?page=2699#2699
I'm going to read it more thoroughly later when I'm less tired, but it sounds like a GREAT bill by Ron Paul.
P.S. The bill is a couple of years old, but still interesting.
Merry Christmas
The St Petersburg Slimes has a poll for Top Story of 2005. Terri Schiavo and Hurricane Katrina are leading the polls, each with %50.
The link to the poll is http://www.sptimes.com/2005/webspecials05/yearreview/poll.shtml
Amdgmary's reference just above to that bastion of bias, the St. Pete Slimes is punctuated by an article by June Maxam of the North Country Gazette complete with pictures. June highlights the cozy relations between Mikey and the Slimes.
Commentary - TerriPAC, Schiavo Already Bending FEC Rules
8mm
Please do keep Nikki in your prayers!!
She has had a really difficult month with some very
painful medical testing.
She has grave concerns about the direction the
medical system continues toward.
Prayers for a miraculous touch from the Almighty One for Nikki in
the new year!
Alouette was in a car crash (bruised but OK)
8mm
Merry Christmas, amdgmary. Thank you for the picture of "Our Greatest Gift" of all!
Thanks for the beautiful picture, Post 1288!
I don't know what Nikki has, but she can get a 2nd opinion for free by calling a complimentary medicine talk show on Friday morning and Sunday afternoons.
Website is: http://www.healthytalkradio.com/
Here I am late as usual. Enjoying the Christmas Truce, and taking break from the festivities, to say Merry Christmas to all the online friends I've met here. "Terri's Freepers", you're the best! Merry Christmas!
a funny but so true post.
What could they possibly be celebrating today? We are celebrating life while, as usual, they celebrate death.
Litte wonder why they revert to Happy Holidays instead of Merry Christmas - don't remind them that there is a Christ, and He is the Living Word. And that Living Word says "Thou shalt Not Kill, give drink to the thirsty, i.e. No rules for them, just what comes out of greer's mouth. Truly the spirit of the anti-Christ.
"Times staff writers Janet Zink and Bill Adair contributed to... " an article I read tonight on the gainesville.com site. (Terri Schiavo derails social agenda of Christian right . . . St. Petersburg Times). I'm just wondering how far the St. Petersburg Times will go in the attempt to vilify Terri Schiavo and what is behind this maddening madness.
Commentary - Vilifying Of Terri Schiavo
Another exciting episode unfolds with Captain Felos on the Hate Boat
Euthanasia Attorney Felos Readying For Death Cruise
8mm
So, George, if the ship sinks and everybody dies, is that a free bonus, or are the cruise tickets more expensive?
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