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[White Man]

I was reading that article and no one mentioned in the article what popped in my head. Couldn't all of that extensive brain damage happened from the multiple times they tried to pull the plug on her and left her for a week at a time? I think there is way too many variables to say that damage was from the original problem she had.

I was about to head to bed, but everyone knows I can't resist the opportunity to bend idiots over.

Couldn't all of that extensive brain damage happened from the multiple times they tried to pull the plug on her and left her for a week at a time?

Prior to the final removal of the tube, it was only taken out twice. The first time was for 2-3 days, and the second time was for 7 days. These instances were more than 2 years apart.

But wait, it gets better:

Dr. Ronald Cranford, a neurologist at the University of Minnesota, assessed Schiavo's brain function in 2001 as part of a court-ordered examination. His examination showed that Schiavo's cerebral cortex had been completely destroyed and replaced by cerebrospinal fluid. The upper brain was about 80 percent destroyed, and there was also damage to the lower brain. The only part of the brain that remained intact was the brain stem, which controls involuntary functions such as breathing and heartbeat—allowing Schiavo to survive (with a feeding tube) even though she no longer had any cognitive function. He was quoted in Florida Today as saying, "[Schiavo] has no electrical activity in her cerebral cortex on an EEG (electroencephalogram), and a CT (computerized tomography) scan showed massive atrophy in that region." [17]

When did Dr. Cranford reveal that Terri's brain was teensy and filled with fluid? Why, it was before the feeding tube was removed for the first time. Go figure. I bet the starving made her brain shrink EVEN MORE.

 

[teiresias]

I will give Ponn the benefit of the doubt and assume that yesterday he'd skipped breakfast and was running late for lunch, that should explain his post . . . and the drooling.

 

[Outcast2004]

I will give Ponn the benefit of the doubt and assume that yesterday he'd skipped breakfast and was running late for lunch, that should explain his post . . . and the drooling.

See, because he skippped breakfast (the most important meal of the day for a reason!), his poor brain didn't have enough food to function properly and started shrinking.

By lunch time he was in his current, semi-retarded, backwards logic, quasi-vegetative state.

Remember kids, don't skip mealls or this could be you!

 

[videogamer]

I will give Ponn the benefit of the doubt and assume that yesterday he'd skipped breakfast and was running late for lunch, that should explain his post . . . and the drooling.

Did Hannity really say those things? Or did he spend most of the time talking about "erring on the side of life" or whatever the talking point is now.

 

[LakeEarth]

And to think they laughed at me when I brought that ham to the calculus final! WELL WHO'S LAUGHING NOW?!?

 

[ronito]

And to think they laughed at me when I brought that ham to the calculus final! WELL WHO'S LAUGHING NOW?!?

Quote of the day! Ok kids, now you try and use this in an normal every day conversation.

 

[Ponn]

Ok, haha. I was just speculating if maybe the multiple weeks of starving had a hand in worsening her condition. I'm wrong i'm wrong. At least I didn't post links to lesbo/pedo websites.

Continue on with your mocking.

 

[Willco]

Ok, haha. I was just speculating if maybe the multiple weeks of starving had a hand in worsening her condition. I'm wrong i'm wrong. At least I didn't post links to lesbo/pedo websites.

Continue on with your mocking.

Sounded a lot more than just speculation.

 

[Ponn]

Well, i'm not a doctor so I sure can't can't post a medical history or state any facts. From what I have been through I will probably never trust any doctors completely but what's done is done.

Yes I realize her initial problem caused the brain damage. I was just speculating on if the instances of starvation in the condition she was in pushed it further and caused more damage and if so how could they say they were right in their decison. But from what everyone posted especially teiresias that was wrong.

 

[Hitokage]

Just remember that when it comes down to it your body tries to take care of its critical areas in situations like shock or starvation, even at the expense of everything else. There are also other less extreme tradeoffs like pain or disease symptoms your body makes in the interest of basic survival.

 

[Azih]

it will not start eating away at it's brain in order to feed its brain.

What if it's a zombie brain?