Word: comas
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...subject of a book, Karen Ann, and a movie, In the Matter of Karen Ann Quinlan, or that on her 31st birthday this past April, cards of good wishes came from all over the world. Throughout all this, for more than ten years, she lay in a coma, curled into a fetal position, shrunken to little more than 60 lbs., unable to see or speak...
...greatest star turn was upon her. Ending months of European seclusion, she returned to Rhode Island to testify against her former lover. Demurely yet firmly, she described a 1980 phone call in which Von Bulow confided that he stood by and watched as his wife slipped deep into a coma. Recounted Isles: "Finally, when she was on the point of dying, he said he couldn't go through with it, and he called (a doctor) and saved her life...
Despite the deus ex machina appearance of Isles, her testimony may have hurt the prosecution as much as helped it. Her sensational revelation about the phone call from Von Bulow in which he first disclosed his wife's coma cut both ways. Isles testified that Von Bulow told her that he and his wife had been having an argument about divorce that "had gone on late into the night. She had drunk a great deal of eggnog. Then, he said, 'I saw her take the Seconal.' And then he said that the next day, when she was unconscious, that...
...Alexander von Auersperg, Sunny's son, by forcing him to admit that the family had contemplated buying Claus out before they went to the police with their suspicions. He also obtained testimony from Sunny's personal physician, Dr. Janis Gailitis, that the latter believed that his patient's 1979 coma was due not to an insulin injection but to her choking on her own vomit, a theory the doctor said the prosecutors told him to keep to himself in 1982. Finally, Puccio prevented Mrs. Von Bulow's personal banker, G. Morris Gurley, from testifying about the millions Von Bulow stood...
...that the state contends Von Bulow used to inject his wife was not left over from an injection, since a needle is always wiped clean by the skin upon removal. The doctor went on to speculate that Sunny's hospitalization three weeks before she fell into her second, irreversible coma was the result of a suicide attempt in which she had probably taken a "massive overdose" of about 65 aspirin tablets...