Collected Thoughts

It highly unlikely - though the odds of a limited recovery are a little bit better if she stays alive than they are if she's dead. Whether or not she is going to get better isn't really the point. Her parents find value in her the way she is. They don't like watching her starve to death. It's painful. She may not visibly react to pain or understand what is causing pain, but we don't really know that she can't feel it.

It depends on who you talk to. There are those people who claim she can be given therapy and one person who said she mouthed the words "I want to live" when the feeding tube was removed. THis is a bunch of BS.

Terri's cerebal cortex is GONE. Gone. If she could communicate at even the most basic level the hospice she was at would know about it. The officials at the hospice would have some record of it and they would have testified at the initial hearing and any hearing after that.

There are some quacks out there saying that with proper therapy Terri could talk, move, etc. But Terri has had extensive therapy. It was only after years of trying therapy -- including going to California for treatment -- that Michael Schiavo went through the proper legal channels to have Terri's feedig tube removed. The propler legal channels meant going to the court and there was a hearing where a judge determined that Terri would not want to be kept alive this way.

Michael didn't just waltz into the hospice one day and say "take out the feeding tube" he followed the proper legal channels.

That was 15 years ago. For the past 15 years Terri's parents have been appealing this process and filing new motions and every time the courts have upheld the original ruling.

The courts have also found that the allegations of spousal abuse against Michael Schiavo were baseless.

Terri's parents (and others) say that Michael abused Terri (and/or tried to kill her) and that's how her caridac arrest happened. However, Michael filed an medical malpractice suit against doctors for not properly diagnosising his wife with an eating disorder which led to her cardiac arrest. Michael Schiavo won that case -- the courts decided that yes, she had an eating disorder and it was mis diagnosised. Michael won $1 million dollars, the majority of which has gone to pay for her care.