Will not. 
Chasey_Lane
Salt Life
What do you consider "proper care" in her instance? If I have to be a burden on my friends and family for years to come, pull the plug on me right away. I don't want anyone to remember me as a "vegetable."Christy said:
Christy
b*tch rocket
He's refused any form of rehabilitative care from the beginning. There's a whole lot you can do and just because she can't communicate, does not make her a vegetable. There's just too many things doctor's don't know and science doesn't know in regards to how the brain works. Technically, according to the MRI's done on my father, he should be dead, not up walking around. :shrug: I'm sorry, but I've been in the position of being fully alert and totally paralyzed, not able to speak or move. Hence my "do not pull the plug" clause in my will.Chasey_Lane said:What do you consider "proper care" in her instance? If I have to be a burden on my friends and family for years to come, pull the plug on me right away. I don't want anyone to remember me as a "vegetable."
Chasey_Lane
Salt Life
But...look at Terry when she does communicate. How long has she been in this state? Almost 20 years or something?Christy said:He's refused any form of rehabilitative care from the beginning. There's a whole lot you can do and just because she can't communicate, does not make her a vegetable. There's just too many things doctor's don't know and science doesn't know in regards to how the brain works. Technically, according to the MRI's done on my father, he should be dead, not up walking around. :shrug: I'm sorry, but I've been in the position of being fully alert and totally paralyzed, not able to speak or move. Hence my "do not pull the plug" clause in my will.
IMO, there is a difference between "possible" rehabilitation, and "no effing way."
When the day comes that I can't wipe my own ass, I'm outta here.Christy said:He's refused any form of rehabilitative care from the beginning. There's a whole lot you can do and just because she can't communicate, does not make her a vegetable. There's just too many things doctor's don't know and science doesn't know in regards to how the brain works. Technically, according to the MRI's done on my father, he should be dead, not up walking around. :shrug: I'm sorry, but I've been in the position of being fully alert and totally paralyzed, not able to speak or move. Hence my "do not pull the plug" clause in my will.
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dmc854
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LOL..Isn't that what pooping in the tub is for?DoWhat said:
hamsterfang
The hamster litter reject
Bruzilla said:
Gotcha. I was imagining her just being badly brain damaged, maybe still a bit self-aware. After 20 years, it doesn't seem as there is much hope left.
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Bruzilla
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Christy said:
It's not a cse of merely not being able to communicate. They can measure the electrical activity in her brain, and most of it is dead. She's like the chicken that had its head cut off, but enough of the brain stem remained to control basic motor functions. As long as the farmer kept forcing food and water down its throat, it walked around just as it always had... it just bumped into everything. It would even bend down to eat feed even though there was no longer any beak to eat with... just because that was the natural reflex.
One of the nurses who worked this case also helped my Dad, and she told me that it's wierd being in the room with her. When you see on TV how her gaze is following a baloon held by her mom, it's actually the mom moving the balloon to follow Terri's gaze. Her body goes through several reflexive actions every few hours, like "looking" around, even when there's nothing to see. She's just pure motorized instinct at this time.
But it wasn't for 10 years, or however long this woman's been laying in a hospital bed.Christy said:
I want it on record that if I ever become a vegetable, I want Bruzilla in charge of pulling the plug and not Christy.
Christy
b*tch rocket
Guess what, almost the entire left upper lobe of my father's brain is "dead", but he's up and walking around and knows exactly what's going on. I'm sorry, you all can call me a loon, but I'm not for pulling the plug on anyone in these circumstances. If I can breathe on my own they damn well better feed me and keep me alive.Bruzilla said:
I wouldn't even want to take the chance that she's still in there somewhere knowing what the hell is going on and not being able to let anyone know that there is.
Christy
b*tch rocket
Doesn't matter.vraiblonde said:
And just because one can't move and "wipe their own azz" doesn't mean they can't have a good quality of life. Just being around people who love you and will talk to you is a pretty good quality of life if you ask me. :shrug: But I guess I'm easy to please. 
Although you could certainly find several that would ream your azz.crabcake said:thank goodness you didn't do it to find someone to wipe your azz.
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Bruzilla
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Christy said:If I can breathe on my own they damn well better feed me and keep me alive.
I see your point, but I would ask you to carefully consider what you're saying... take away the emotion from it if you will, and look at the practical side of it all. Most people get irratated when they can't leave their house for a few days during a snow storm. Most people couldn't handle being locked up in a cell for the rest of their life. Try lying on your bed with your eyes closed and not moving a muscle. See how long you can do that, and imagine a life where you're like that until you die of natural causes. No seeing, speaking, eating, drinking, sex, going to movies, driving... nothing but blackness and being unable to move. How long do you think you would want to live like that?
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Kizzy
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Christy said:Doesn't matter.
Yeah, people can come in and read to you what is going on daily with the forums, after a while, you'll gather enough will to pull your own plug.