Thanks.  It's good to get a viewpoint from someone who's closer to the
situation than most of us are (pun unintended).  And your view's an
interesting one.

Kat

----- Original Message -----
From: "k gibson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 8:54 AM
Subject: Re: My thoughts on Latimer


> Hello everyone, I've been extremely busy lately and haven't written
anything
> in quite a long time but now I have the need to talk about something close
> to me. The Robert Latimer case. Robert Latemir lives about a half an hour
> away from me, I live in Regina, Saskatchewan and his place is not too far
so
> we've beens eeing lot's of him in the paper and in the news.
> His daughter did in fact, as everyone knows, had CP. I do agree with him
> when he said his daughter was in constant pain but the story behind that
is
> that he let her have pain. He only gave her Tylenol in her times of pain
> becuase he did not beleive in putting her on any '' harsh '' medication,
he
> also did not give her anything for seizure medications, or so the story is
> told. He also complained to the media that there was never any respite
> offered to him, or home care. Social ervies did approach him about foster
> care, simply becuase he was too far away from any major city and there was
> no home care available out where he lives. Why didn't he move then? He
knew
> that there was not any home care of servies avaialable by his farm, and
so,
> instead of moving from the farm, he killed her. Of course, he said it was
> beuase of her intense pain and lack of '' care '' by the goverment.
> My child lives with me in Regina. We have home care come in, he has pain
> episodes but I do medicate him with stronger drugs than tylenol. He's not
a
> zombie, asleep all the time from drugs, he's quite wide awake and not in
> pain. Just thought I'd put in my 2 cents.
>
>
>
>
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