She makes Nell sound like Meryl Streep. Chewbacca was more coherant.
I don’t know who that is, but I guess I’m clinging to some notion I’ve had since childhood that you can only live 3 or 4 days without water. Since her organs are failing, she must be dying by fits and starts instead of all at once. A coworker suggested that death is a different kind of even for someone who is comatose and half dead anyway.
I grew up with that notion too. Not sure where it came from. Maybe an old western movie where somebody was left stranded on the desert, and Lee VanCleef or somebody said “He’ll be dead in three days.”
Skeletons on the Zahara by Peter King was an eye-opener for me. Not only were those stranded sailors almost constantly without food and water, but they were also subject to extreme conditions – the heat of the desert, and being forced to walk and work, and being mistreated. Remarkable, the abuse a body can take.
(End hijack, recommend the book.)
When my wife heard her say that, she yelled at the TV, “You have other children!!!”.
She had the nerve to make it sound like Terri was her ONLY child.
I can’t imagine what the Schindlers must have been like as parents. I know that Terri’s siblings are on their side, but Jesus, they come off as real control freaks.
I know it’s very normal for hospice patients to have short or simple hairstyles, but why does Terri’s hairstyle look so much like her mother’s?
I said that first! 
No, I’m not going to go search through all the pages to find the post,but I did.So there.Now get over to cafe Society.
Oh shit, I was flipping past the channels and on Fox News they had a blurb that Mel Gibson is going to poke his nose into the case.
Hey Mel-why don’t you go back to making Catholic snuff porn and quit telling us about how you’re more Catholic than the Pope, mmmkay?
—Who was Cruzan?
—What’s a crash cart?
I don’t know.
It’s that cart on wheels they’re always crashing into the room when there’s an emergency. Think back to any ER episode you’ve ever seen. You know that cart that the nurse pushes in a wildly careening manner as she shouts at the doctor? That’s the crash cart, I think…
Nancy Cruzan was a woman who sustained severe injuries in a car accident. Hers was one of the first cases to decide the right of families to terminate life support.
Robin
Nancy Cruzan was in a PVS, and her parents (who were appointed her guardians) wished to have her tube feedings stopped. After much litigation, their wishes were carried out and Nancy died.
A crash cart is the cart full of medicines, supplies, and defibrillator equipment which gets taken to the site where a patient is being vigorously rescusistated.
Correct. It is filled with the most crucial life sustaining medications. The “crash” portion usually refers to a patient crashing (stops breathing and/or circulating).
As a result of a car accident, Nancy Cruzan was first in a coma, then a PVS.
This went through various levels of litigation, and the parents’ wishes were eventually upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court.
It looks like the Schindlers are going to try, once again, to ask the Supreme Court to get involved in this.
I see. Thank you.
wonder what happened to “we won’t appeal to the federal courts” statement they made last weekend
God forbid she dies on April fools.
We have a hospice floor in our hospital, and I got called to a code there once–one of the nurse techs had a huge heart attack. We had to drag in a crash cart from the other end of the building, and most of the nurses up there couldn’t remember the last code they were involved in. “Chaotic” doesn’t quite capture it.
Re: Nancy Cruzan–I highly recommend The Long Goodbye: The Deaths of Nancy Cruzan to anyone interested in this topic. The author–the lead lawyer for the team fighting for Cruzan’s right to have care withdrawn–gave a great talk for us last year.
Huh? Don’t good conservatives think that “activist judges” are bad? Aren’t good conservatives supposed to defend the solemn holy sacred inviolate institution of heterosexual man/woman unprotected-penis-in-vagina marriage?
None of this makes sense anymore. It just looks like a field day for various politicians to get their names in the news.
