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Forgive me for posting this, as it has to do with you-know-what. But it's one person's perspective who is dealing with this up close and personal right now.
I just got back from visiting my friends in another city. The husband's mother is 67 years old and dying of an inoperable brain tumor. It has been a VERY slow-growing tumor, and VERY resistant to every treatment she's been through since the age of 61 (six years now).
My friends haven't been following the Schiavo case very closely, but they have heard about it and asked me what I thought when I was there. I first asked them what they thought, especially him, since I know his mother is in hospice care now.
He is her only child and only living relative. His father died several years ago. This is what he had to say, I tried hard to remember his exact words (we talked this morning) so that I could get all the details:
"My mom can no longer see or hear anything. She can speak, but has said very little and none of it makes sense. She doesn't know who she is, who I am, or where she is. She has had pneumonia more times than we can count and she can't move on her own. About three months ago, the doctors asked me if I would agree to have a feeding tube inserted, as she was down to 87 pounds and is 5'7".
She is terminal. I know she is not going to get better, the tumor is not going to start shrinking on it's own and so much of her has been damaged so far, even if it had, she'd still be like this.
I said no to the feeding tube. How could I leave her in that cold, dark world where she can't see, can't hear and has no idea where she is or who she is one day longer than she needed to be? I want her to have some of the dignity at the end of her life that she lived her life with."
He told me he thinks keeping Terri on a feeding tube for fifteen years, absent most of her brain, is pretty cruel and to refuse to let her body go is just downright disturbing.
We did all this talking before he turned on the Sunday morning whore shows. What he saw and heard on them made him even sicker.
I felt for him. He went to their bedroom, shut the door, and stayed in there for quite a while.
I wonder if the republicans and religious fanatical right doing all this and using her like this realize how much it is hurting other people going through the same thing? And that baby in Texas.....wow. The hypocrisy and blatant opportunistic and blood-sucking nature of the repukes/religious right are just stunning when seen this intensely, this nakedly.
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