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March 24, 2005
Fired Nurse Claims Terri Feels Pain
Topics: Medical Issues
CNSNews.com Senior Staff Writer Jeff Johnson reports that a nurse who worked at the hospice where Terri Schiavo is dying of dehydration and starvation has revealed that Terri feels pain and the nursing staff medicates her for it. As explained by neuroligist William Cheshire, who examined Terri and her medical records, those who are in a persistent vegetative state "do not have the capacity to experience pain or suffering.... If Terri is consciously aware of pain, and therefore is capable of suffering, then her diagnossi of PVS may be tragically mistaken."
Wagner claims she was fired Monday after expressing support for keeping Terri alive. She was quoted as telling a Florida television station that Terri's feeding tube should not have been removed.
Terri's husband, Michael Schiavo, spoke with ABC News Nightline's Chris Bury on March 15 and discussed the prospect of Teri suffering from a death by dehydration and starvation.
"It is a very painless procedure. Terri can't," Schiavo said, not finishing the sentence. "She has no cortex left. She doesn't feel pain."
But Wagner described the circumstances under which Woodside Hospice personnel would give Terri pain medication.
"The only time I ever heard her make sounds is, um, if she's in pain like, if, you know, she has her monthly (menstrual period) and she's in pain," Wagner explained. "She'll moan a bit and grimace, and that's how we know, you know, to give her a Motrin."
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Posted by tim at March 24, 2005 8:50 AM
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Her condition wasn't just misdiagnosed. It was deliberately misdiagnosed. Dr. Cranford, who was the doctor Michael appointed is a member of the this "Assisted Doctor Suicide" group... I can't remember the name. Of course he's going to say she's PVS, so it makes it easier for people to want her dead.
Hell is getting hotter, I can tell you that...
Posted by: Sirena at March 24, 2005 10:49 AM