Food tube back in, Schiavo at hospice
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Terri Schiavo, the woman at the center of a renewed legal battle over the right to die, was moved back to a hospice late Wednesday after her feeding tube was reinserted. “She’s really a tired girl,” said her father, Bob Schindler, who spoke with reporters about 10 p.m. outside Woodside Hospice. “She looked to me like someone who had the flu.” Schindler said he was optimistic his daughter would recover. “Terri is so resilient,” he said. Two hours earlier, an ambulance escorted by three police cars transferred Mrs. Schiavo from Morton Plant Hospital in Clearwater, where she had been taken Tuesday after Gov. Jeb Bush ordered the reinsertion of her feeding tube. “I’m assuming,” Schindler said, “they wouldn’t release her from the hospital if they didn’t test her out.” Schindler said he was annoyed at the way he and his family had been treated Wednesday. “We kind of got jerked around all day,” he said. Mrs. Schiavo’s return to the hospice was a surprise to her brother, who arrived at Morton Plant to visit her for the first time since she was removed from the hospice Tuesday. More : sptimes.com |