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Thank you for looking for the link.
Mary Anne — (archived)

I would be interested to see it.

I still believe that, considering all the pressure that has been brought to bear, a neurologist or two could have been found to make a diagnosis in person if this were the case.

A friend of ours has a son who was born without a cerebral cortex. He's alive in a nursing facility. He, too, is fed by tube, which is becoming a problem as he grows and the insertion area moves up against bone. He does nothing and recognizes no one. He smiles and grimaces, and his hands wave around, but not only is there nobody home, there isn't even a house on the property. The family is not about to disconnect him, but they will face the issue soon over whether to authorize more surgery to move the tube. If they decide not to do this, how will the Schaivo case impact the results of their decision? (They're not made of money either.) Will they have to hope an infection at the entry site kills him before someone takes it to the Supreme Court?

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