Mike, 

From the video I've seen, it looks like Terri had a tracheotomy at one
point.  I'm not a doctor, but have known several people who have had
trach's that healed.  The reason Terri Schiavo is on the feeding tube
now, from what I've read, is that she can't swallow safely.  

Good friends of my wife and I have a daughter who uses a feeding tube
because of swallowing difficulties.  She's in her early teens, and has
been on one most of her life because she got pneumonia several times
from aspirating milk as an infant.

Kendall Corbett

An unreasonable man (but my wife says that's redundant!)

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one
persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all
progress depends on the unreasonable man.
-George Bernard Shaw 1856-1950


-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Collis [mailto:[log in to unmask]] 
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 12:52 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: More Terri Schiavo bullsh*t

These are my last to questions on this topic. Was Ms. Schiavo's throat
damaged in the heart attack and subsequent brain damage?   How could it
happen?  That's the one thing that troubles me the most about this care.
I
won't ask any more questions....


Mike

-----Original Message-----
From: St. John's University Cerebral Palsy List
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Trisha Cummings
Sent: Monday, March 28, 2005 11:01 AM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: More Terri Schiavo bullsh*t

Okay,

  But she is not concious - and the abuse charges where not founded to =
be true. I believe her parents are the dominanating ones. Eating =
disorders come from a need to have some control over your life. Terri =
and Mike where married for not quite 6 years - when this happened. I =
don't see any abuse allegations from the current significant other =
believe me abuser don't change. Notice that the abuse doesn't come to =
light until 2002  12 years into the 15 - its a tactic by the parents to
=
get their way. See the timeline - =
http://www.miami.edu/ethics2/schiavo/timeline.htm Also notice its eight
=
years into the 15 before he requests the tube be removed. I think 8 =
years is ample time.

                                    Trisha