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Dr. William Hammesfahr, a
world-renowned neurologist wrote a
complete report regarding Terri Schindler Schiavo dated
September 12, 2002. The report reveals that medical tests
conducted after Terri's collapse did not show evidence
of a heart attack:
In the Emergency Room, a possible diagnosis of heart attack
was briefly entertained, but then dismissed after blood
chemistries and serial EKG's did not show evidence of a heart
attack.
(Quote source: Complete
Report of Dr. William Hammesfahr)
Two months after this report was
written, Schindler family attorney Pat Anderson still did not
refute the widespread myths that Terri had a heart attack
and/or suffered cardiac arrest.
Pat Anderson said, "I've never
been satisfied with any explanation of her collapse,"
Anderson told WND. "It has all been loosey-goosey. The
theory was that she was bulimic (because her potassium level
was low) and that caused cardiac arrhythmia, which led to the
cardiac arrest."
(Quote source: Nov. 14, 2002 Emergency
Motion in right-to-die Case
This would have been an opportune time
for Pat Anderson to cite Dr. Hammesfahr's September 12, 2002
report and dispel the "loosey-goosey" theories
promoted by the right-to-kill-Terri proponents, but she did
not. Instead, she repeated their false "theories."
[I am searching for media
articles where Pat is quoted refuting the heart attack
lies. If I find them, I will post them here.]
Pamela Hennessy, the official
media representative and spokeswoman for the Schindler family,
is not only not refuting the cardiac arrest myth, she is promoting
it:
Terri Schiavo was 26 years of age when
she collapsed in the home she shared with her husband, Michael
Schiavo. The precise cause of her collapse is still not known
though she did suffer a cardiac arrest. (Oct. 4, 2003 The
Means to an End)
Pamela is
also promoting the heart attack lie via Glenn Beck.
Read more about this in the subheading below called "Terrisfight.org's
Media Darling Promotes the Stopped Heart Myth!"
Cardiac
Arrest/Heart Attack Ruled Out
An
October 26, 2003 edition of World Net Daily revealed that Dr.
Michael Baden debunked the official version of early events in
Terri's case. Terri did not have a heart attack:
Interviewed on the Fox
News Channel, Dr. Michael Baden, co-director of the
Investigative Unit of New York State Police in Albany and
former chief medical examiner for New York City, ruled out
potassium imbalance and a heart attack as factors in Terri's
mysterious collapse 13 years ago -- which left
her severely incapacitated and unable to speak -- and
pointed to head trauma and bone injuries as a more likely
cause.
(Quote source: Questions
Raised About Terri's Collapse)
Dr. William Hammesfahr
stated in a January 7, 2004 Highway2Health interview with Ron
Panzer that Terri did not have a cardiac arrest or
heart attack:
Dr. Hammesfahr revealed
that not only has Terri never had a heart attack
as widely reported in the major media, she also never
even had a cardiac arrest (her heart never
stopped)! [She had arrhythmias of the heart, but
not a "stopped heart."] He explained that Terri's
injuries were multiple and showed injury TO her.
He stated that Terri
had marked injury to her neck which still exists today,
and that he has only seen a similar injury, with
spinal cord involvement as well as brain injury, in one case where
a patient had been strangled. He stated that
Terri had an L-1 injury to her spine, which he stated is
common among persons being thrown against a table, for
example. Excerpt from the Hospice
Patients Alliance Newsletter January 8, 2004 by Ron
Panzer [bold emphasis added.]
(Quote source: Ron
Panzer's Notes: Interview With Dr. Hammesfahr)
Pamela Hennessy has had time to correct the "cardiac
arrest" misinformation promoted in her article, but she
has not done this.
When information is incorrect due to a mistake, it is
called misinformation.
When one deliberately dispenses incorrect information,
he/she has moved over into the arena of disinformation:
Disinformation is an act of misinforming, or
deceptively communicating false knowledge or faulty
intelligence. A common disinformation tactic is to mix truth,
half-truths, and lies. (Quote source: Disinformation)
Pamela's sentence, "The precise cause of
her collapse is still not known though she did suffer a
cardiac arrest" is followed by a statement which suggests
the non-existent cardiac arrest caused oxygen
deprivation with a resulting brain injury:
Due to the lack of oxygen to her brain for
several minutes, Terri suffered profound brain damage and has
been physically and cognitively disabled ever since.
(Oct. 4, 2003 The
Means to an End)
The cardiac arrest/heart attack
lies are Michael Schiavo's best friends because
this disinformation shifts the focus from
Terri's extraordinarily rigid neck (consistent with
strangulation and asphyxiation) to Terri's non-existent heart
problems.
Medical records reveal that she did not
have a cardiac arrest, but that she did have
arrhythmias of the heart. She also had an
"extraordinarily rigid neck," a head injury, and
several bone fractures which revealed a "history of
trauma."
Asphyxiation can cause lack of oxygen to the
brain and is associated with an extraordinarily rigid neck and
neck injury (both confirmed in Terri's medical records) but
was overlooked on terrisfight.org in favor of the cardiac
arrest disinformation. Strangulation and arrhythmias of the
heart can also cause the brain to be deprived of oxygen.
Arrhythmias of the Heart and
Defibrillations
Terri had "arrhythmias of the heart"
when she was found by the paramedics in a face down
position. According to Dr. Hammesfahr's complete
report, "aggressive resuscitation was performed with 7
defibrillations en route."
Arrhythmias of the heart causes abnormal heart
rhythms:
Arrhythmias (or dysrhythmias) are problems
that affect the electrical system of the heart muscle,
producing abnormal heart rhythms. They can cause the heart to
pump less effectively.
Defibrillations were performed to restore
Terri's normal heart rhythms:
Defibrillation
is a process in which an electronic device gives an electric
shock to the heart. This helps reestablish normal contraction
rhythms in a heart having dangerous arrhythmia or
in cardiac arrest.
There
are many causes for arrhythmias of the heart.
Considering
that Terri was healthy at the time she either collapsed or was
struck down, it is positively scandalous that an investigation
was not conducted to determine what caused her to go from a
state of health to a state of serious injury.
Terrisfight.org's
Media Darling Promotes the Stopped Heart Myth!
Glenn Beck promoted the "stopped
heart" (cardiac arrest) myth in an October 2002
broadcast. The link
to this interview is prominently displayed on the
main page of terrisfight.org even after Dr. William
Hammesfahr refuted this disinformation in his interview with
Ron Panzer!
Pamela Hennessy also posts the link to Glen
Beck's October 10, 2002, program (which "happens" to
have a slant which aids the other side) on the Free
Republic forum, and perhaps elsewhere too.
This program promotes Michael
Schiavo's propaganda that Terri had bulimia which
resulted in a near fatal heart attack (Glenn really described
cardiac arrest):
Glen Beck: "She was engaged in bulimia
so, so HORRIBLY, that she drops dead of a heart attack. They
resuscitate her, but she's never the same."
Glenn Beck continues to further the
cardiac arrest propaganda by linking, with no disclaimer, to
mainstream news media that promotes this disinformation as
well.
For example, in the Glennbeck.com November
5, 2003, archives, there is a link to a FoxNews.com
article that repeats this inaccurate myth:
"Terri Schiavo suffered severe brain
damage in 1990 when her heart temporarily stopped because of a
chemical imbalance. Doctors have said she has no hope for
recovery from a vegetative state."
(Terri
Schiavo's Parents Excluded From Legal Battle)
It is inexcusable that Pamela
is linking to Glenn Beck's heart-attack/arrest-propaganda
broadcast because she knows that Terri's collapse was not
caused by a heart attack:
“It was found that a heart
attack did not cause Terri’s collapse as everyone was led to
believe. Rather, according to one physician, Terri may have
been a strangulation victim,” says Hennessy.
(Quote source: Life News: Terri
Schiavo's Life Spared for 30 More Days June 27, 2003)
The
media kit, found at terrisfight.org, debunks the myth that
Terri had a heart attack:
MYTH: Terri’s condition was
caused by a heart attack.
FACT: Terri was NEVER diagnosed
as a heart attack victim when she was admitted to the
Northside Humana emergency room in February 1990. To this day,
her family does not know the true cause of her collapse.
Doctors immediately excluded heart attack as her blood enzymes
were not elevated -- typical in all heart attack victims.
Terri’s toxicology screen also eliminated any suspicion of
drugs.
It is disturbing that Pamela Hennessy
promotes Glenn Beck because he is spouting damage
control for Michael Schiavo:
the bulimia and heart attack lies.
Furthermore, at this writing,
terrisfight.org does not have a link to Ron Panzer's important
interview with Dr. William Hammesfahr, or cite Dr. Michael
Baden's remarks that refute the heart attack and potassium
imbalance myths. This censorship is inconsistent with the
alleged mission of the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation.
Media Loves the Cardiac Arrest, Heart
Attack Myths
The "Terri Schiavo had a heart attack
lie" is a fabrication that has been spread far and wide
by the mainstream liberal and alternative media. This
myth, which aids Michael Schiavo, leads the public to believe
that Terri Schiavo collapsed due to natural causes, when
evidence points strongly toward foul play. A
Free Republic poster [person] reported that the
television program, On the Record, promoted the heart attack
lie as recently as January 21, 2004:
To: floriduh voter
I watched the interview last night [On the Record with
Greta -- FoxNews Channel Jan. 21, 2004] and they are starting
to let the truth be known, however did anyone
notice the writing on the bottom of the screen during the
interview that said "Terri collapsed after a heart
attack"? We've got to get "them" to stop
referring to the collapse as a 'heart attack'. Maybe even if
they inserted the word "alleged heart
attack" that may be a bit more tolerable.
38 posted on 1/22/2004 by lilypad
Note: The
Schindlers are busy trying to help Terri and probably do not
have time to monitor the contents of terrisfight.org. These
critiques of content on terrisfight.org are not critical of
the Schindlers, but rather, of the individuals who are using
this site to promote disinformation that "happens"
to benefit Michael Schiavo's agenda, or to suppress
information that is damaging to his agenda to kill Terri. To
do this once is too many times. They do this far more than
once.
For example, the link to the Larry
King Live interview on the new multimedia
page is an hour's worth of bold-faced
lies about Terri and the Schindlers!
Why are they promoting this
damage-control-for-Michael-Schiavo television interview on a
website 'dedicated to saving Terri's life'?
Why didn't terrisfight.org link to the
interview
that refutes the lies Michael and his lawyer said on the Larry
King Live show -- which aired the same night and the same hour
on a different channel? Also see: The
Interview That Wasn't
See: Terrisfight.org:
A Hidden Agenda and Five
in Her Eye: Death in Disguise
Also see: For
the Life of Terri Schiavo
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