by
Steven Ertelt
LifeNews.com Editor
March 26,
2005
Pinellas
Park, FL (LifeNews.com) -- An attorney for Terri Schiavo's parents
told Fox News Saturday morning that Terri Schiavo's medical condition
due to her starvation and dehydration is growing perilous. Terri is
now reportedly bleeding from her eyes and mouth.
Barbara Weller, an attorney for Terri's parents Bob and Mary Schindler told Fox News Channel's "Fox & Friends" that blood was coming from Terry's eyes and tongue.
"Her eyes are sunken and her skin continues to flake off," Weller added.
Terri looks so poor in health now that Weller described her as resembling "an Auschwitz victim."
Without such eyewitness descriptions, the world may never know the kind of pain and suffering Terri is enduring in her final days. At the request of Michael's lawyer, euthanasia advocate George Felos, videos and cameras are banned in Terri's hospice room.
Terri's parents, family and attorneys are also limited to the amount of time they can spend with her each day and they may not be present with Terri if the ultimately passes away.
Some doctors contend the death process is not painful, but Dr. David Stevens, the president of the Christian Medical Association, says "most so-called experts have never seen someone die in this manner."
Stevens worked for 13 years in Africa, where the most common cause of death in children is dehydration from gastroenteritis.
"I have seen hundreds if not thousands of patients with dehydration and some of them so far gone, that despite resuscitation attempts, they died," Dr. Stevens said.
"In misery, the patient tries to cry but there are no tears. The patient experiences severe abdominal cramps, nausea and dry-heaving as the stomach and intestines dry out," Stevens continued.
Stevens says patients who die form starvation and dehydration have cracking skin and lips and their tongue swells. As mucous membranes dry out and break down, patients will suffer from severe nose bleeds.
"Contrary to those that try to paint a picture of a gentle process, death by dehydration is a cruel, inhumane and often agonizing death," Dr. Stevens concludes.
The public also won't know as much as they could about Terri's final days because, according to Dr. Ed Dominguez, a medical consultant for KLTV in Tyler, Texas, Terri's estranged husband Michael has decided against running a brain wave scan on Terri.
Dominguez says the electroencephalogram would give doctors a good idea how Terri's brain responds to pain.
Michael has also decided to cremate Terri's body, preventing any postmortem examination and preventing any experts from determining whether Terri was physically abused as Terri's family and others contend.
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Related
web sites:
Terri Schiavo's parents - http://www.terrisfight.org
