March 19, 2005

  • For those following the Schiavo "snipping the puppy dog's tail off an
    inch at a time" murder, some godly men have travelled from all over the
    country to be down there.  One of them is David Bayly, and he's
    got good information and insights on his and his brother, Tim's, blog.  

    Here is one of his latest postings (photo at his site):

    Meet David, of Spring Hill, FL, who spent Friday afternoon across
    the street from the hospice where Terri Schiavo is being starved. He is
    joined in the picture above by his mother Brenda, friend Kaitlynn and
    sister Beth.

    David breathes by ventilator--the result of an accident nine years
    ago which left him paralyzed. He speaks softly, though firmly, of his
    determination to protest Terri's starvation.

    Two years ago David's ventilator malfunctioned in the night leaving
    David brain damaged. As a result, he has little short-term memory and
    can no longer see to read or control his eye-directed computer.

    Doctors urged David's parents not to treat him after the ventilator
    malfunction. They persevered and David again lives at home. Several
    months ago David was weaned from a feeding tube doctors said he would
    not live without. His first meal by mouth in two years was ground pizza.

    David's mother asked him earlier today if he would have said he
    wanted to live on a ventilator before his initial accident. "No," he
    replied.

    No one, his mother explained, wants to live on a ventilator before needing one....