Terri Schiavo...PLEASE HELP!!! - you could save her life! sign petition

GavinsMommy wrote: Dunno if anyone listed this yet...

Terri Schiavo is going to have her feeding tub removed TOMORROW as early as 5 pm. Many of you might think she should die bc she's brain dead. Well, she's NOT BRAIN DEAD!!! She shows happiness and smiles around her parents...she is showing emotion.

They said that if she has physical therapy, it will help her a great deal, God knows what it could do for her, but her husband has basically refused all therapy for the last 15 years for her. If she had it right after her fall due to her eating disorder, she might have fully recovered.

As a parent, you know the pain you would feel losing a child. Yes, if your child is brain dead and in pain you would want them to pass on....but doctors believe she can possibly be helped. The reason she hasn't gotten this help yet is bc of her husband.

But YOU can help save her life! Would you end your child's life if s/he were in the same situation but they SMILED at you? She is obviously in there somewhere!!

Everyone please sign this petition so you can help save her...!

http://www.cfra.info/213/petition.asp?PID=8095288&NID=1

Thanks!!!!!!!

Lauren

mckayleesmom replied: Personally I think that the husband had something to do with why she had a stroke. Maybe drugging her or something..KWIM? I think that is why he is soooo anxious to get rid of her. I saw a thing about the nurses saying that he wouldn't let anyone talk to her or anything...what a jerk. Why else would you fight so hard for someone to die? Someone who very obviously to me..DOES SHOW EMOTION. Why doesn't he just sign over her medical stuff to her parents if she is such a burden to him? He can get granted a divorce...Thats why I think that there is more to this story then has been said.....CONSIDER MY SIGNATURE IN

Boys r us replied: I agree with Brianne! Isn't there some money involved for him if she dies too..seems like I remember hearing something of that nature on one of those news shows(dateline or 20/20...) like life insurance or something.

But yeah he's WAYYYY to anxious to get rid of her! He can get a divorce, he doesn't have to kill her to get one, so I don't get it!

mckayleesmom replied: well Im glad that Im not the only one that is trying to read between the lines with this guy. Just the fact that he refused to let her get therapy makes me think that hes afraid of what she would accomplish and what she would say when she succeeds.

DansMom replied: I wouldn't be comfortable intruding on this family's personal tragedy with my own beliefs and agenda; especially considering I don't know any of them, and I have not been asked by any family member to help make this decision. I don't know what Terri would have wanted nor what she told her husband she wanted as far as her quality of life in such circumstances; I don't know what is in her husband's heart when he makes this decision, and I don't know the parents. I don't know what God intends for Terri. Perhaps he has been trying to bring her home.

kit_kats_mom replied: This is getting TONS of press here in FL and I've been hearing about it for years. Frankly, I'm sick of it. I know that I've verbalized to my DH that if I was ever unable to communicate and the doctors said I wouldn't come out of it, I would not want excessive steps taken to keep me alive. Due to this case, I've put it in writing and had it notarized. But seriously, how many of you have told your spouses what you want done if something like this happens? How many of you have also told your parents? I sure tell my husband tons of things that I don't share with my mom.

Think about it if she did tell her DH to not take excessive medical procedures to keep her alive (feeding tube), then she's been in her own personal hell for the last 5 years. Frankly, bulima is a form of slow suicide and if she was in fact starving herself to death before all of this, what's to say she wouldn't want the plug pulled?

I think her parents are being selfish and bringing all sorts of people who have no business dealing with this sort of thing (Jeb Bush, the Dept of Children and families etc) into it. That's really getting old and I wish they'd just let the poor woman go already. I think that the husband is just trying to fufill his wife's wishes. It's a pity that they hadn't written them down and had them notarized so that this would not have happened.

ok, bring on the flames.

I'm sorry but this is just my POV and We've had so much press about it that I just want it to be over one way or the other.

GavinsMommy replied: I agree w/ you in some ways Karen. But I, like the others, think that her husband had something to do w/ her condition now. He already received the money, so he has no reason to want her to die...but wait, yes he does...if you hurt someone that bad, wouldn't you always fear they would return to normal enough to tell on you??? I would.

I don't think her parents are selfish though. She hasn't received any kind of therapy, just sat there for years. They want her alive bc if she is under their guardianship, she will receive the physical and mental therapies she needs...and POSSIBLY....make some sort of recovery. I don't think they wish their daughter in that state forever, and think if they knew she was going to continue like that forever, that they would pull the plug. I think their motive is in the hope that she can recover to a somewhat normal state. People that get into accidents and are told they can't walk again...well they probably can't if they don't go to therapy for it.

I think she should at least be given a shot at therapy.

And flame away, but it really doesn't matter when someone says "If I end up like that, I'd rather die", because you don't know until you experience it. I just don't think you can evaluate something unless you live it. Maybe she thought that before, but maybe now she's in there somewhere thinking...I love my parents, I want to live...

Maybe not...but she is showing happiness.

I just think she deserves a chance

The point is, she might very well NOT be a vegetable forever...given the proper therapies. She just needs a little help, she is *not* brain dead...brain damage? Maybe...but that doesn't mean a miracle can't happen so that she can live even the most simple life.

kit_kats_mom replied:
From what I understand, she had a heart attack brought on by the bulimea and collapsed and lapsed into a coma.

TANNER'S MOM replied: I think that it is sad that I could make a decision for my self and spouse and someone else can take that right away from me.

My Dh's parents don't always see eye to eye with us on religion etc. Why do they have more rights then me.

Who is paying these medical bills. I know money doesn't matter, but I am just wondering..

I don't want to be kept alive for an extended amount of time, b/c I am not selfish. I want my family to mourn and go on with life. Life has to go on..

kit_kats_mom replied: the fact is, she wouldn't be alive if it werent' for the feeding tube. That, in my opinion is taking excessive measures to keep her alive. I have seen the videos that her parents are using to say that she is responsive. Well, her doctors say she will not recover. Her poor parents are mistaking the bodys normal reflexes as emotions. I feel sorry for them but they are holding on to hope that just is not there. I can't imagine what they are going through but if the doctors told me that there was no chance of a somewhat normal life to be lived, I'd let my child go.
She may be in there somewhere but her body has been failing her and she should be let go.

here's the latest
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/B/BRA...=customwire.htm

http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/S/SCH...=customwire.htm

paradisemommy replied: i have to agree with cary on this one - i'm not following this but i did see it on the news and i know it mentioned in the excerpt that i saw that teri DID NOT want to be kept alive. with that being said - i feel really bad for her for having it prolonged even further - if someone doesn't want to be kept alive then respect their decision and let them go - i know my husband and i are both going to do the same thing that cary did - we don't want to be kept alive living like that.

and i don't think the husband had anything to do with it - ita with cary - i think he's just trying to carry out her wishes. afterall, i think he would know her best...

aspenblue1 replied: ITA with Cary.

jcc64 replied: I have only minimal awareness of the particulars of this story. I think both Tracy and Cary said it better than I could. But I do believe it must be a particular kind of hell on earth to be "existing"(b/c I don't believe it to be living) as this woman is now, and it must be another kind of hell to watch your child waste away for month after month delusionally clinging on to some miniscule promise of recovery, and yet another kind of hell to lose your wife, and then be accused by strangers of participating in her demise for monetary gain. And then finally, for all of them to be descended upon by all the various interest groups, hoping to advance their own agendas through the prism of this poor family. I'm sorry for all of them.

gr33n3y3z replied: well it seems to me from reading all this she had a heart attack brought on by the bulimea ..... well she did this to herself and is letting the family fight over to pull the plug or not to. Its ashame she didnt have a living will done up you know what I mean. At this point not much of her organs can be functioning right.
I feel sorry for the family going through this but her.
I have a hard time caring about anyone putting themselves in this state.

amynicole21 replied: I agree with you Cary - maybe we're getting more sides of the story since it's so local here in FL. I can't believe that that Gov. Duh is getting involved AGAIN! He has no right to have any say in this matter. And the husband has already spent any life insurance money he may have gotten on the court fees fighting the idiot parents of this poor woman. I thought it's been longer than 5 years also. This woman HAS received therapy and nothing has improved, there is not a single doctor that says there is any real hope of recovery. I believe that the reason the husband hasn't signed over rights to the parents is out of obligation to his wife. He wants to protect her interests and desires, not let her parents keep her in this form of hell any longer. Imagine the hell he has to go through, also... people picketing his home and threatening him for standing up for his wife! I don't have a living will yet, but it's on the list of things I need to do soon. This whole situation is just sad.

TeagansMom609 replied: I think they should let her go. Thats hardly living to me! If a feeding tube is the only thing keeping her alive thats not a life. I think her parents are being selfish honestly. I doubt she wants to live if she has ANY idea whats going on. If I couldnt utter a word, I would become so frustraited I would want to die. I think shes been tortured enough.