And the removal of Ms. Schiavo's feeding tube has been pushed to the 18th.

[conuly]

Here.

Before people start debating this, let's get the following out of the way:
She doesn't use a ventilator.
She's not "hooked up to a machine" to live.
She isn't on life support, at least not as it's been defined to me.
She uses a feeding tube to eat. Removing this would cause her to starve to death/dehydrate.
Her parents say that she's minimally aware.
Her husband disagrees, and says that she didn't want to live like this.
He is living with another woman.
AFAIK, nothing from the insurance went to cover therapy for her.
It is argued that this therapy could've improved her condition.


Now you can go duke it out in my journal.

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[kibbles.livejournal.com]

I have a hard time judging steps, never noticed with curbs. I had an accident, one leg is longer than the other now, and I don't know what it is, all I know is that it's hard for me to do steps, stairs.

It's funny, I can go up with no problems with perception, but it's painful.

Going down doesn't hurt as much, but I can't 'find' the next step.

I'm going to take more notice of curbs. I wonder too if because I have the stroller so often I use it as a walker. When I first started walking again, I did use it for just that. For support, balance, and the like. Hrm.