Did Terri know, as Sarah did?

THIS is what I have been saying to EVERYONE for many many years, in regard to head injuries, brain damage... THIS is why I fought so hard to make people REALIZE that Terri and all disabled people have a RIGHT TO LIVE...that we CANNOT KNOW what is going on in their minds, what they do or do not know.... How much they hear, comprehend. 'Experts' can THEORIZE all they want to... but no one can say for certain.

I worked with a young man who was found unconscious in an alley, and did not come 'out of it' for several years... no one thought HE knew anything much, either. During his stay in ICU, one of the males shaved his beard to make it easier to care for him, etc. When this young man later came out of the unresponsive state he was in, he was still disabled, tremendously, but he remembered being shaved...and he remembered the nurse who had shaved him! He was not happy about it, either!

We were taught LONG ago in nursing school that the LAST thing to go is... hearing. We just do NOT have anyway of knowing how much comprehension anyone in a comatose/'vegetative' state has...

Watch the video...and as Cheryl Ford said... what did Terri know? Remember her attorney's statement of the day they pulled that tube, as she told Terri what was going to happen, and said if you could JUST say... I want to live! and Terri said AHHHHHH WAAAHHHHH.....

TERRI KNEW.


From: Fight4Terri@aol.com
Subject: If Sarah knew, what must Terri have thought and felt? We watched Terri smile.

Thank you to CC for forwarding this video.

Click here: CBSNews.com / CBS News Video

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