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binkie -

i've respected every post of yours i've read up 'til now, mostly because you're well read and well informed - however this last veered somewhere off the map of your consistent astuteness.

there's no comparison between a coma and severe brain damage. while symptomatically, they may coincide - etiologically, they are very different and thusly, the outcomes or resolution of each, if one can be reached, is different as well. coma is reversible, brain damage is not and will continue to be non-reversible until we have the capacity to rebuld nervous tissue.

the "dozens upon dozens of highly recognized doctors have come out and said that Shaivo can recover from this through rehabilitory and therapy treatments to where she can talk and move around freely" comment is just false, as far as i'm been able to determine. where did you get that information? i'd be interested to read what these "highly recognized doctors" had to say on record with their professional reputations in the spot light.

terri schiavo won't get better. michael schiavo is not her doctor and does not commandeer her medical care. doctors, nurses, social workers, etc. are responsible for her care. lay people are not in charge of assessing, determining, outlining and perpetrating plans of care. that's not the way medicine works in this country.

terri schiavo has been in a persistent vegetative state for 15 years. michael schiavo would be a fool, if not morbidly bizarre, if he had not taken up with someone else - especially when he's been told there's no chance for her to recover. this isn't a movie. this is real life. whatever their relationship prior to her present state - does it matter? really? marriages come in all shapes and sizes, gentle, rough, whatever. there are only two people who know what went on behind closed doors and one of them is in a persistent vegetative state. everything else is just conjecture.

"able to walk and talk again"?
"can recover from this through rehabilitory and therapy treatments to where she can talk and move around freely"

i'd like to read that report.