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Terri
Schiavo Is Conscious & Aware. Husband Must
Be Removed As Guardian.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE February 24, 2005
The
Following Statement Can Be Attributed To Nevada LIFE
President Don Nelson
Teri Schiavo, the brain injured Florida woman whose
husband has been trying to remove her feeding tube for
several years, has been granted a further lease on
life until Friday afternoon so Florida Judge George
Greer can decide whether her legal husband, Michael
Schiavo, should be removed as her guardian.
Greer also wants want more time to determine
whether Terri Schiavo needs more medical tests to
determine if she has greater mental capabilities than
previously thought.
Judge Greer, as the finder of fact, found Schiavo
to be in a Persistent Vegetative State and unable to
improve. The
reports to the court by doctors handpicked by Terri
Schiavo’s legal husband Michael Schiavo and attorney
assisted suicide advocate George Felos are flatly
contradicted by expert doctors. Terrisfight.org
reports, “14 independent medical professionals (6 of
them neurologists) have given either statements or
testimony that Terri is NOT in a Persistent Vegetative
State. Additionally, there has never been any medical
dispute of Terri’s ability to swallow.” One
of these neurologists was William M. Hammesfahr, M.D.
who was nominated for the Nobel Prize for Medicine.
He says the CAT Scans or MRI readings of her
brain were misreported to the court.
Videos, pictures and eyewitness accounts of
interactions with Terri show that she is alert,
interacts with her family and tries to speak. She can say words like “hi,” “yeah” and “no.”
She swallows two gallons of her own saliva
every day. With
speech therapy it is believed she could recover her
speech and learn to feed herself.
Judge Greer must also immediately remove Michael
Schiavo as Terri’s guardian.
It is impossible that he has Terri’s best
interests. Schiavo
has been living with another woman for ten years and
has two children with her.
Since being awarded over a million dollars for
lost of consortium and for Terri’s rehabilitation,
not one cent has gone to rehabilitate Terri.
Instead, her rehabilitation damages have been
used to pay for attorney’s fees to remove her
feeding tube. At
least $400,000 of Terri’s rehabilitation fund has
gone to assisted suicide advocate attorney George
Felos.
Neuropsychologist
Alexander T. Gimmon filed an affidavit after viewing
Terri. He wrote, “Terri is an excellent subject for a variety of
cognitive treatment protocols designed to improve her
neurological function.”
He also said that “Depriving brain-damaged
patients of medical, physical, occupational,
recreational and speech-language therapy is both
neglect and abusive.” Judge Greer must immediately remove Michael Schiavo as
Terri’s guardian so she can begin the treatment that
Florida law says that incapacitated people like Terri
retain the right to have.
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