> Delay Hypocrisy: The GOP Using The Schiavo Case For Political Gain
25 March 2005, 16:25
First off the thanatophoric, the first word of the babies diagnosis means FATAL or DEATH. Not to mention, Sun Hudson was anacephlic, which in medical terms means NO BRAIN. I haven’t seen the media tossing that one around. Not only was his rib cage so small that he probably wouldn’t have survived on a ventilator, but his head was compressing his spinal chord causing severe respiratory problems. His poor little body was so misshapen that if he had any realization at all it was probably pain increasing daily. I feel for the mother of this child. I’ve never lost a baby. But, do you really think she understood for ramifications of this child’s illness? I think there may have been a little denial going on, not that I blame her for it. I do blame the media to have picked the story up and run with it like a “George W. Bush killed this poor black woman’s baby story,” without even mentioning the above, is irresponsible journalism.
About Mrs. Schiavo, just let me point out that I think it is ironic that this woman is in the condition she is in because she was starving herself in the first place. I don’t feel for her parents. I know I could not sit and watch my children suffer with their extremities stiff, twisted and completely immobile, which by the way, no amount of physical therapy could ever have help. Passive range of motion will not ultimately prevent contractures. To prevent contractures of muscles one must be able to perform active range of motion, which Terry could not.
Now, I wonder if half of the crazy people, who obviously have no jobs, and are trying their Florida, hillbilly best to, “Get on the TV,” realize that being immobile for several years causes your bones to weaken and therefore, when the muscles start to contract, bones break. I’ve seen it happen, and they don’t usually set them on persons like Terry.
There are other things that go along with complete immobility. This woman probably has at least a couple of stints in the hospital each year to get treated for various pneumonias. Immobility causes hypoventilation and atelectasis of alveoli which eventually leads to pneumonia. Also having a feeding tube puts this woman at a great risk for aspiration pneumonia. Not to mention the degradation of lying in one’s own excrement and not even knowing it. I believe this woman is in a vegetative state just like the experts have said for years. I also think it is selfish of her family and her caregivers to want to keep her around like a little pet who might blink and look at a balloon once in awhile.
First off the thanatophoric, the first word of the babies diagnosis means FATAL or DEATH. Not to mention, Sun Hudson was anacephlic, which in medical terms means NO BRAIN. I haven’t seen the media tossing that one around. Not only was his rib cage so small that he probably wouldn’t have survived on a ventilator, but his head was compressing his spinal chord causing severe respiratory problems. His poor little body was so misshapen that if he had any realization at all it was probably pain increasing daily. I feel for the mother of this child. I’ve never lost a baby. But, do you really think she understood for ramifications of this child’s illness? I think there may have been a little denial going on, not that I blame her for it. I do blame the media to have picked the story up and run with it like a “George W. Bush killed this poor black woman’s baby story,” without even mentioning the above, is irresponsible journalism.
About Mrs. Schiavo, just let me point out that I think it is ironic that this woman is in the condition she is in because she was starving herself in the first place. I don’t feel for her parents. I know I could not sit and watch my children suffer with their extremities stiff, twisted and completely immobile, which by the way, no amount of physical therapy could ever have help. Passive range of motion will not ultimately prevent contractures. To prevent contractures of muscles one must be able to perform active range of motion, which Terry could not.
Now, I wonder if half of the crazy people, who obviously have no jobs, and are trying their Florida, hillbilly best to, “Get on the TV,” realize that being immobile for several years causes your bones to weaken and therefore, when the muscles start to contract, bones break. I’ve seen it happen, and they don’t usually set them on persons like Terry.
There are other things that go along with complete immobility. This woman probably has at least a couple of stints in the hospital each year to get treated for various pneumonias. Immobility causes hypoventilation and atelectasis of alveoli which eventually leads to pneumonia. Also having a feeding tube puts this woman at a great risk for aspiration pneumonia. Not to mention the degradation of lying in one’s own excrement and not even knowing it. I believe this woman is in a vegetative state just like the experts have said for years. I also think it is selfish of her family and her caregivers to want to keep her around like a little pet who might blink and look at a balloon once in awhile.