[color:"green"] Quote from Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terri_Schiavo
"On the morning of February 25, 1990, around 5:30 a.m., Mrs. Schiavo collapsed in her home in St. Petersburg, resulting in irreversible brain damage due to a loss of oxygen. According to her discharge summary from Humana Hospital, [2] (http://www.terrisfight.org/documents/Humana%20Discharge%20Summary%20050990.pdf), Terri suffered cardiac arrest and anoxic brain damage, accompanied by hypokalemia (abnormally low levels of potassium in the blood), seizures, respiratory failure, and an injured knee from the fall. The cause of her cardiac arrest was undetermined, but the low potassium was suspected.

In 1992, a medical malpractice suit was brought against Terri's medical care providers, at which a jury concluded that Schiavo suffered from bulimia, which caused her chemical imbalance and subsequent cardiac arrest. Florida's Second District Court upheld the finding that Schiavo suffered a cardiac arrest as a result of a potassium imbalance." [/color]

[color:"purple"] I really hope people suffering from eating disorders are paying attention to this case. Is it really worth starving yourself or binging and purging to end up like Mrs. Shaivo? and what her porr family is going thru. And the media that hypes up all these skinny models for your girls to look at and struggle with their body image. [/color]


Jeanette Stingley - Women's Lit
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