| Here's a few more facts regarding the plight of Terri Schiavo (that's pronounced, she I vo, or alternately, shy vo):
tenyears ago, Terri's husband, Michael Schiavo won a malpractice lawsuit in which he proffered that he need millions to give Terri care and rehabilitation; Michael was awarded $300,000 to him for loss of wifely functions, and $750,000 was awarded to be placed in a trust for Terri's rehabilitation; Michael entered a 'do not resusitate' order on Terri's chart shortly after the money arrived, and gave strict orders that Terri was to receive no rehabilitation, period; over the past decade, Michael has kept Terri bedridden and without stimulation or therapy, not allow even the shade to be raised on the window in her room and certainly not allowed to be wheeled outside; for the past seven years, Michael has been cohabiting with another woman with whom he has one child and another on the way, yet he refuses to divorce Terri and will not relinquish his guardianship; since 1997, Nichael has been seeking a court order to have Terri's feeding port removed from her stomach, and his efforts using one George Felos, euthanasia attorney, have been paid via robbing Terri's rehabilitation trust funds, granted in secret by Judge George Greer, the same judge who has business connections to George Felos through the Hospice programs in Florida (Terri is presntly and for the past three years, been housed in a hospice where she cannot receive medical attention--hospices are the place people are sequestered to die), the same judge who has beforee ordered Terri to be dehydrated and starved to death only to have another judge rule a stay to the order because of appeal on Terri's behalf, the same judge who fired a state appointed guardian who protested that Michael Schiavo was abusing via neglect to Terri's rehabilitation needs, the same judge that refused to allow a swallowing test or therapy to train Terri to swallow again (she does swallow and does not choke on her saliva and sinus mucous output), the same judge that made a show of requesting medical opinions regarding Terri's potentials for rehabilitation yet used a euthanasia physician's opinion (a friend of George Felos, the euthanasia attorney of Michael Schiavo) to determine that Terri would not benefit from rehab therapy yet seven other physicians and speech therapists have testified under penalty of perjury that Terri is an excellent candidate for rehabilitation therapy, the same ajudge who has never gone to see Terri whom he has ordered executed via slow death. |