Michael Schiavo Caught In Yet Another Lie
Michael Schiavo, Terri's Schindler-Schiavo's estranged husband, is a certified respiratory therapist and a Registered Nurse who currently works in an Emergency Room in a Florida hospital. For someone who is supposedly a "professional" in the medical field, he has been making some bizarre statements, the most recent of which has been, ""Death through removing somebody's nutrition is very painless," and "It (tube removal) is a very painless procedure."
Would you want a "professional" like this taking care of you if you had a medical emergency? I would not walk, but would run out of that hospital as fast as I could if Michael Schiavo was my assigned nurse.
Now that her feeding tube has been removed, Terri has begun the long, slow painful process of death by dehydration and starvation -- a death that she rejects and that has been imposed upon her by Judge George Greer, the Florida legislature, and her guardian, Michael Schiavo.
I am not a medical "expert" or "professional" like Michael Schiavo, but common sense and the articles I have read reveal to this untrained mind that this is an outright lie.
Other people with common sense also acknowledge that Schiavo is lying to himself and to the world about this.
Rep. Joseph Pitts, a Pennsylvania Republican told his Congressional colleagues "Death by dehydration is a painful, agonizing and arduous process that takes 10 to 14 days. "Compared to starvation and dehydration, death by hanging, firing squad or even electric chair seem humane."
WHAT REALLY HAPPENS to non-terminally ill people with cognitive disabilities whose feeding tubes are removed? Do they suffer from the process?
In addition to feeling the pangs of hunger and thirst, the skin, lips and tongue crack. The nose bleeds because of the drying of the mucus membranes. Heaving and vomiting may ensue because of the drying out of the stomach lining. The victim may experience seizures.
As the fluid level in the body goes down, the blood pressure goes down and the heart rate goes up. Respiration often increases as blood is shunted from the periphery to the central part of the body in a desperate attempt to sustain the primary organs. The hands and feet become extremely cold.
St. Louis neurologist William Burke describes the process in the following way:
"A conscious [cognitively disabled] person would feel it just as you or I would. They will go into seizures. Their skin cracks, their tongue cracks, their lips crack. They may have nosebleeds because of the drying of the mucus membranes, and heaving and vomiting might ensue because of the drying out of the stomach lining. They feel the pangs of hunger and thirst. Imagine going one day without a glass of water! Death by dehydration takes ten to fourteen days. It is an extremely agonizing death."
Minnesota neurologist Ronald Cranford's detailed description of the dehydration process reveals its gruesome reality:
"After seven to nine days [from commencing dehydration] they begin to lose all fluids in the body, a lot of fluids in the body. And their blood pressure starts to go down. When their blood pressure goes down, their heart rate goes up. . . . Their respiration may increase and then . . .
the blood is shunted to the central part of the body from the periphery of the body. So, that usually two to three days prior to death, sometimes four days, the hands and the feet become extremely cold. They become mottled. That is you look at the hands and they have a bluish appearance. And the mouth dries a great deal, and the eyes dry a great deal and other parts of the body become mottled. And that is because the blood is now so low in the system it's shunted to the heart and other visceral organs and away from the periphery of the body . . ."
Michael Schiavo, Terri's Schindler-Schiavo's estranged husband, is a certified respiratory therapist and a Registered Nurse who currently works in an Emergency Room in a Florida hospital. For someone who is supposedly a "professional" in the medical field, he has been making some bizarre statements, the most recent of which has been, ""Death through removing somebody's nutrition is very painless," and "It (tube removal) is a very painless procedure."
Would you want a "professional" like this taking care of you if you had a medical emergency? I would not walk, but would run out of that hospital as fast as I could if Michael Schiavo was my assigned nurse.
Now that her feeding tube has been removed, Terri has begun the long, slow painful process of death by dehydration and starvation -- a death that she rejects and that has been imposed upon her by Judge George Greer, the Florida legislature, and her guardian, Michael Schiavo.
I am not a medical "expert" or "professional" like Michael Schiavo, but common sense and the articles I have read reveal to this untrained mind that this is an outright lie.
Other people with common sense also acknowledge that Schiavo is lying to himself and to the world about this.
Rep. Joseph Pitts, a Pennsylvania Republican told his Congressional colleagues "Death by dehydration is a painful, agonizing and arduous process that takes 10 to 14 days. "Compared to starvation and dehydration, death by hanging, firing squad or even electric chair seem humane."
WHAT REALLY HAPPENS to non-terminally ill people with cognitive disabilities whose feeding tubes are removed? Do they suffer from the process?
In addition to feeling the pangs of hunger and thirst, the skin, lips and tongue crack. The nose bleeds because of the drying of the mucus membranes. Heaving and vomiting may ensue because of the drying out of the stomach lining. The victim may experience seizures.
As the fluid level in the body goes down, the blood pressure goes down and the heart rate goes up. Respiration often increases as blood is shunted from the periphery to the central part of the body in a desperate attempt to sustain the primary organs. The hands and feet become extremely cold.
St. Louis neurologist William Burke describes the process in the following way:
"A conscious [cognitively disabled] person would feel it just as you or I would. They will go into seizures. Their skin cracks, their tongue cracks, their lips crack. They may have nosebleeds because of the drying of the mucus membranes, and heaving and vomiting might ensue because of the drying out of the stomach lining. They feel the pangs of hunger and thirst. Imagine going one day without a glass of water! Death by dehydration takes ten to fourteen days. It is an extremely agonizing death."
Minnesota neurologist Ronald Cranford's detailed description of the dehydration process reveals its gruesome reality:
"After seven to nine days [from commencing dehydration] they begin to lose all fluids in the body, a lot of fluids in the body. And their blood pressure starts to go down. When their blood pressure goes down, their heart rate goes up. . . . Their respiration may increase and then . . .
the blood is shunted to the central part of the body from the periphery of the body. So, that usually two to three days prior to death, sometimes four days, the hands and the feet become extremely cold. They become mottled. That is you look at the hands and they have a bluish appearance. And the mouth dries a great deal, and the eyes dry a great deal and other parts of the body become mottled. And that is because the blood is now so low in the system it's shunted to the heart and other visceral organs and away from the periphery of the body . . ."
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