Did Terri Schiavo ever speak after suffering her health Crisis?

Question

I am just reading the book "Fighting for Dear Life" my David Gibbs. He was the lawyer who fought on behalf of saving Terri Schiavo's life. He testifies that the very first time he met Terri, Mary, Terri's mother, showed him something that made his heart race.

Mary who had an incredible bond with her daughter stroked her daughters cheek and tried to get her to say, I love you. Terri indeed did speak saying, "Ahhh, Laaa". She did this several times which convinced Gibbs she was not PVS.

In fact as they left Terri had tears coming down her check because she did not want her mother to leave. Apparently this display of emotion happened quite often.

I garauntee if you read this book your eyes will be opened to a great many things. I myself was down in Pinellas. I did not personally see Terri but I did gain information that the vast majority of the media either purposely mislead or was too inept to report to the general public accurately.

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tonalc1, read the book and then come back and say what you just said. I was actually there and got a great deal many facts that the general public was not receiving. In fact Gibbs wondered if there judgement was off but in fact he witnessed things with his own impartial eyes that convinced him that though Terri was handicapped she was very much aware and alive. She was not hooked up to any IV's, ventilators, etc. She would even laugh and cry, and track his movements as he walked behind her. There were many other witnesses besides the parents. You are only making hasty judgments without having all the facts. Find the patience to search for the truth and the heart to accept it.

Thank you ♥Poetic1♥ and Debra M for you supportive words. We are definitely kindered spirits in this regards. Though I was down in Penallas Park for 11 days, and most of them at the protest site, the book still informs me of things I had not previously known. I saw Terri's parents and Gibbs, etc, but I did not know in their own words what exactly was going on. Fighting for Dear Life protrays them in an easy to read but inspiring way.

Answer 1

yes, I believe she did! from what I saw on a tape of her, she is trying so hard to form words. have you ever seen a stroke victim try to talk? they understand everything going on around them and have a great mind, yet not able to form words correctly.

that whole issue touched my heart in ways that no words could ever describe. I had a niece just like Terri, when I saw Terri on TV .. I saw my niece. my niece brought our family a love that is also indescribable! we were so blessed to have her. Our little Mandy went home this past March to be with our savior. I miss her so much. but I take comfort in knowing that we will be together again.
Like, Terri, my niece responded to her mother and grandma. yet we were told that she was blind and was even told by doctors that she wasn't worth saving. (she was born with water on the brain, and the shunt failed causing brain damage) the doctors told us that she wouldn't live to be a year old. but God had other plans, she lived to be 21 years old.
I can't believe what they did to Terri or how her parents endured it. I can't even imagine someone starving my child to death. but what was more amazing was that the courts ruled for a husband who had questionable actions. I think he proved that he no longer had Terri's best interest at heart when he moved in with another woman and had children. I can't understand why he didn't give guardianship to her parents, who loved her. unless this man had something to cover up and saw her improvement would only make it come out. I don't believe that Terri was blind or so brain damaged that she didn't know what was going on around her.
as for the media, they truly messed up.

if there was any way that I could have been there to protest during this ordeal, I would have been there! I did write letters to the governor about Terri and went to her website for updates. but she never left my prayers. this showed me just how this country has lost it's compassion. it's truly sad!

Answer 2

I think the Terri Schiavo fiasco was just that --- a fiasco and a travesty. If Terry was to be taken off of life support, it should have been done immediately NOT all these years later!! It was horrible. She was obviously alive and if her mother and father were willing to care for her then her "husband" should have just left her be!!! How horrendous! My daughter was on a feeding tube for a year and I could never have STARVED her to death! The Terry Schiavo case just broke my heart. I also seen the videos of her trying to communicate and the way her eyes lit up and she was RESPONDING!! My daughter is brain damaged and I was willing to take on the lifelong care and I still do! Sad sad sad! Her husband is a horrible, selfish human being.

Answer 3

That poor woman was brain dead, blind and deaf.

Her family, in their suffering, would interpret any small thing to mean that their daughter was still with them.

It was a terrible situation, made obscene by the government's interference in the private lives of both families.

ADD: My bad, she wasn't deaf. However, she was blind and had irreversible brain damage.

Her autopsy revealed that. From the Washington Post (among other papers):
Terri Schiavo suffered severe, irreversible brain damage that left that organ discolored and scarred, shriveled to half its normal size, and damaged in nearly all its regions, including the one responsible for vision, according to an autopsy report released yesterday.

Schiavo's brain damage "was irreversible . . . no amount of treatment or rehabilitation would have reversed" it, said Jon R. Thogmartin, the pathologist in Florida's sixth judicial district who performed the autopsy and announced his findings at a news conference in Largo, Fla."

And I reiterate, it was nobody's business but the family's, and bringing in the government to legislate a family's private decision (one that had been requested by Terry herself) was obscene.

Answer 4

Truly sad isn't it? There are many truths that were not made evident. She wasn't even allowed to have any therapy, flowers, or music by her husband. He didn't even have the decency to wait until her death to reinvolve himself with another woman. What happened to "till death do us part"?And for those who will say I do not understand you are wrong.I work in nursing and I have seen many Terry's.

Answer 5

she was trying to learn to function and her husband made she did not have chance