--- In [email protected], "jyouells2000" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > --- In [email protected], "easyone200" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > What a surprise, all those wacky right to lifer' were wrong. > > The autopsy of Terri Schiavo found no evidence that the severely > brain-damaged woman > > was strangled or abused and that no amount of therapy would have > reversed her > > condition, a medical examiner said Wednesday. > > > > She also was not abused by her husband, another favored ploy of the > wack-pack fundies. > > The medical examiner said his examination turned up "no sign of > abuse or trauma" -- > > allegations leveled by Terri Schiavo's parents, Bob and Mary > Schindler, against her > > husband and legal guardian, Michael Schiavo. > > > > The editing of 50 hours or so of video tape to get the phony > "responses" of Teri to > > commands and her tracking eye movements are now seen as what they > truly were, the lies > > and political side show of the christian right wing nuts. She had > less than half a brain and > > no functioning visual cortex. > > > > A report from a neuropathologist who served as a consultant to the > autopsy said Schiavo's > > brain was "grossly abnormal and weighed only 615 grams [1.35 > pounds]." Her brain was > > profoundly atrophied," he said.The vision center of her brain was > dead, he said. > > "This damage was irreversible," said Dr. Thogmartin. "No amount of > therapy or treatment > > would have regenerated the massive loss of neurons." > > > > I can however, understand why these fundies want to keep the Terri's > of the world alive. If > > C.A.T. scans were taken of fundie church members brains they would > look a little too > > much like............. > > I wonder how much of that brain weight loss was due to 19 days (or 11, > whatever it was) without water. I guess that the brain would be the > last to give up water but I don't know. Has it ever been studied? > > JohnY It weighed less because the structures were not there, as in missing. The tissue had been reabsorbed by the body after it died due to oxygen deprivation years earlier. As to how much water an intact brain looses during dehydration I don't know.
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