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...CHANCES OF RECOVERY FROM PVS? The prognosis is better when the condition results from a head injury, which is why in those cases, doctors usually wait at least a year before concluding that the patient is permanently vegetative. When the condition is triggered by a prolonged lack of oxygen to the brain, as was true for Schiavo, the chances of any kind of recovery diminish rapidly after three months...
More than 15 years after she suffered cardiac arrest (from a potassium imbalance that may have been caused by an eating disorder), which deprived her brain of oxygen and left her in what most doctors have diagnosed as a persistent vegetative state, Schiavo has become a cause célèbre for the right-to-life movement. Already mentioned in all sorts of fund-raising literature, Schiavo is a symbol not just for those fighting the right-to-die movement but also in the battle over abortion, stem-cell research and judicial activism. "We're replacing the sanctity of life with...
...Tighe family's fact-finding mission was relatively straightforward. Three years ago, Jimmy Tighe, then 48, of Cleveland, Ohio, fell down some stairs at his father's house and was knocked unconscious. The ambulance crew accidentally threaded a breathing tube into his stomach, leaving him without oxygen for the 12-minute ride to the hospital. When his brothers were told three months later that Tighe was in a persistent vegetative state, they mentally replayed conversations they had had about death four years earlier, after another brother had been shot and killed. "We all said...
...daily life, as well. This has gotten so perturbing to me that when I fly, I try to wear my Harvard t-shirt so I can “pass†as a person without cognitive disability. (I have severe cerebral palsy, the result of being deprived of oxygen at birth. While some people with cerebral palsy do have cognitive disability, my articulation difference and atypical muscle tone are automatically associated with cognitive disability in the minds of some people...
...removing my endotracheal tube during resuscitation in my first hour of life. This was a quality-of-life decision: I was simply taking too long to breathe on my own, and the person who pulled the tube believed I would be severely disabled if I lived, since lack of oxygen causes cerebral palsy. (I was saved by my family doctor inserting another tube as quickly as possible.) The point of this is not that I ended up at Harvard and Schiavo did not, as some people would undoubtedly conclude. The point is that society already believes to some degree that...