Ltr to Governor Bush re Terri Schiavo

This is my letter to Governor Bush that is being emailed simultaneously as the posting of the letter on my blogsite.

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February 23, 2005


Governor Bush (jeb.bush@myflorida.com):

I hope that you will "stop the insanity" as Susan Powers is known to say.

I am, and have been, a member of NAMI (National Alliance for Mental Illness) for quite some time, as well as a cousin of a brain aneurysm survivor, a student at Kaplan University studying criminal justice, a Night/Weekend Manager at a DVSA shelter, and so much more.

I do hope that you will put a stay on this matter until more details can be examined and explained. In accordance with the attached email that has been sent throughout the world, it puts a disturbing perspective on what the media has been portraying from the husband's perspective.

I sincerely believe that everyone should have the right to life. If the right to life is just supported by the pumping of air and food into the body, then it does seem senseless to keep the body function if the brain is simply not functioning and while the body continues through the motions; however, the gist of this email sent out indicates that there is some degree of a function of the brain in the sense that Terri appears to be responding to her family.

I am not a doctor, but this response goes beyond just an arm or eye movement which could be caused by sporatic nerve impulses; this response that Terri is having with her family includes a speech pattern and puckering up the lips for the kiss, which would seem to indicate a marked improvement in Terri's life, albeit small steps.

I am not sure what is "up" with the husband. Is he tired of being there for his wife? Does he simply feel that he cannot go through the motions??? I hope that he will get some counseling to help him through these roughest of times for him. Perhaps, he needs to be not so involved with his wife and allow her family to take over the responsibilities for the support and love that Terri needs. Perhaps, with the support and love continuing to flow from her family, Terri will continue to see more marked improvement although she may never ever fully recover to pre-trauma state that she suffered.

I sincerely believe that it would be a travesty for the feeding tube to be removed unless they were comfortable that she could now be sustained without it and continue to receive nutrients on her own accord.

Please, Governor Bush, life exists on this earth; everyone deserves to take part in that life; no one should have that right taken away from them. Please, Governor Bush, give lots of thought and prayer to the issue of approving the removing the feeding tube before it is too late. Please, Governor Bush, have due consideration for the life of Terri Schiavo. After all, if it were your very own relative, would you truly be for removing of the feeding tube under the circumstances as they stand today????

Thank you, in advance, for listening to yet one more concerned United States citizen today.

Sincerely,


Kathryn
Cedar Park, TX
www.bluebonnetfields.blogspot.com

(note: I have removed some contact information from the letter I actually sent to Governor Bush for the strict purposes of posting of the letter on this website. However, I do sincerely hope that others will write Governor Bush as well. Thank you.)