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Originally Posted by RangerDick
Regardless of where one stands on this issue, in light of the fact that there is a lack of concensus in the medical community on whether Terri's condition is or will ever be reversible, I think the following is a compelling example of what she could be going through (from someone who has been there - declared to be in a persistent vegitative state and had her feeding tube removed.) Granted, 3 months is not quite equivilant to 15 years, but it is food for thought.....
http://dutch-ess.blogspot.com/2005/0...-has-been.html |
i don't hold a lot of faith in what she has to say. i've heard about her speaking out on this issue, and both she and the people who parrot her can never seem to get the story straight. check out her website,
http://www.katesjourney.com/ and look in the articles area. the bio area doesn't tell a whole lot about what happened.
for example at
http://www.katesjourney.com/southbayhealth.html
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Adamson’s recovery began in the blink of an eye. As she lay in the intensive care unit, connected to breathing tubes and intravenous feeding lines, Adamson could do nothing but think and pray. Without the ability to move, she had no way to communicate with the outside world, no way to tell her doctors or her husband that she was awake and aware.
Then her husband, desperate to reach her and grasping at straws, asked her to blink her eyes if she could understand him. It took all her energy to make it happen, but somehow Adamson found the strength to do it — she blinked.
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hmm... feeding tube unhooked? not according to this article. while i haven't looked very deep into the articles yet, i have yet to see it mentioned as her being in a PVS. she's described multiple times (by herself in her bio even) as having 'locked-in syndrome.' quite a different thing.
i take anything she has to say regarding this situatin with a grain of salt.