- CLEARWATER, Fl (LifeNews.com)
-- Just one day after a local judge said Terri Schiavo's estranged husband
wasn't violating a court order by denying Terri's parents information about
her medical condition, Terri has been taken to a local hospital with apparent
puncture wounds on her arms.
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- Hospice workers at Park Place Assisted Living Facility
in Clearwater, Florida, where Terri is living, noticed the wounds, apparently
caused by a hypodermic needle.
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- George Felos, the lead attorney for Michael Schiavo,
said that Terri was taken to Morton Plant Hospital on Monday night for
toxicology testing and other blood work. Michael Schiavo works at the hospital
as a staff nurse.
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- Felos, an assisted suicide advocate, said hospice staff
discovered the marks Monday after Terri's parents, Bob and Mary Schindler,
had spent 45 minutes with their daughter.
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- "Mrs. Schiavo was found in a disheveled state with
her feeding tube wrapped around her back and an allergy band pulled up
very tight on her arm like a tourniquet," Felos said in a press release.
"On one arm were four fresh puncture wounds with another fresh puncture
wound on her other arm. Also found were fresh scratch wounds, over the
puncture wounds as if an attempt were made to conceal the puncture wounds."
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- "It appears that someone was either trying to inject
Terri Schiavo with something or
- withdraw fluids from her," Felos added.
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- Bob Schindler, Terri's father, told Tampa's WTSP-TV that
he did not inject anything into Terri and that his daughter was fine when
the Schindlers finished their visit with her.
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- But Felos, while not saying the Schindlers were responsible,
said they were the only visitors on Monday.
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- "Maybe one of their quack doctors told them, 'Here,
we have a substance that can help Terri get better, but it has to be injected,'"
Felos told the St. Petersburg Times newspaper.
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- But Pat Anderson, an attorney for the Schindlers, told
the paper the ordeal was a "ruse to cut off" visits by Terri's
parents.
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- "I tell you what it looks like to me," Anderson
said. "They're accusing the parents of abusing her, which is insane
because the parents have been fighting to take care of her."
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- Clearwater police are investigating the matter and Michael
has ordered hospital staff to not allow any visitors while the investigation
is pending.
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- Further request for comment by LifeNews.com to Pat Anderson,
attorney for the Schindlers, was referred to George Tragos, a Clearwater
attorney who has agreed to lend his expertise to the Schindlers on this
matter.
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- Tragos had no responded to a query from LifeNews.com
by press time.
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- Tragos spoke with the Associated Press and told them
it was "absurd" to suggest the Schindlers were responsible.
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- "It's just another mean-spirited attack designed
to get some judicial advantage," Tragos said. "I have no idea
what happened, but it certainly is mysterious since we believe she was
actually showing some improvement."
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- Related web sites:
- Terri Schiavo's parents - http://www.terrisfight.org
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- Comments or questions? Email us at news@lifenews.com.
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From Sheryl Jackson
3-31-4
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- George Felos, the lead attorney for Michael Schiavo,
said that Terri was taken to Morton Plant Hospital on Monday night for
toxicology testing and other blood work. Michael Schiavo works at the hospital
as a staff nurse. (quote from article)
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- If this quote is the truth, how can anyone blame the
parents? Michael Schiavo taking care of Terri? As a medical caregiver?
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- When he is accused of trying to murder her in the first
place with broken bones and other marks that do not present a congruent
picture of the diagnosis of heart failure in the fitst place?
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- But then this is Florida isn't it?
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- Jeb Bush country...... Clearly this case is to make killing
your wife legal.........Excuse me, I mean more leagal..........
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- Nicole Simpson, Laci Peterson, , Laci Peterson's unborn
son are all resting in peace over this one, huh?
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- This is the most blatant instance of insanity in the
courts that I have ever heard of..........Who is asleep at the wheel and
allowing Michael Schiavo to give care to his wife???
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- Insanity, abomination, travesty of justice, is anyone
else out there listening to these court decisions? Am I the only person
in America that finds this BEYOND NUTS ?????????
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