Re: U.S. House panel to seek to keep Schiavo alive
From: djgordon (danigordon_at_bellsouth.net)
Date: 03/25/05
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Date: Fri, 25 Mar 2005 13:18:17 -0600
Well, let me tell you a little secret. Justin's brain was in about the same
condition hers is in and oh he smiled, I smiled back, he smiled, he smiled,
he smiled. You know what? No matter what I fooled myself into believing, the
longer he lived the more they became gelastic seizures...not true smiles. A
smile is the easiest and most common facial expression there is. He would
react to pain, he'd smile. He'd be in the middle of crying, he'd smile. You
nor I know or have seen any pictures of her since 2002, because they were
banned from taking any. We have no idea what she's like right at this
moment. It's he said/she said. And for your peace of mind you'd be much
better off believing the docs about her state, because trust me, if you
think otherwise it is going to eat you up and you don't even know these
people. Best to distance yourself, you're getting awfully bitter. I refuse
to get bitter about this case and I've lived it firsthand save the feeding
tube actually being pulled. As I've said, could I have ever done it? No way.
But I can't condemn someone else for doing what they feel they have to.
Dani
"Phyllis" <phyllisnilsson@buckeye-express.com> wrote in message
news:42446183.90709@buckeye-express.com...
> I don't know if I could pull a feeding tube; I could have a respirator
> unplugged. I could not breathe for my sister, but I could feed her and
> give her water, even if it were done through a tube instead of her
> mouth. The reason I have a problem with this is because Terri wrote
> down nothing and people change all the time. How do we know that, if it
> was said at all, it wasn't said as a causal remark without thought given
> to it, like so many remarks we make? How do we know that she didn't
> (before she couldn't) change her mind and want to cling to the life she
> has as the best she can hope for? The problem is we just don't know.
>
> Terri hasn't spent the last 15 years just "staring at the walls". She
> has people with her a great deal of the time, and Dani, she was still
> smiling before they pulled the tube. Was it just "reactive" on her
> part? Aren't all smiles? If someone smiles at you, you normally smile
> back and that doesn't mean you do it because you have no brain. I can't
> find it in my heart to have sympathy for Michael because he has moved on
> with his life. I have the utmost sympathy for anyone who loses a child,
> and the Schindlers are losing the child they have loved for 41 years.
>
> djgordon wrote:
> > So had you been her sister and she had told you she didn't want to be
kept
> > alive by heroic measures (in FL that means a feeding tube--it's in the
state
> > law) and you were the only person to look out for her, would you have
gone
> > on these 15 years and longer letting her just lay around and stare at
the
> > walls?
> >
> > Dani
> >
> >
>
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