A Life That Matters (30 page)

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3. Greer also relied on the testimony of the “impartial” doctor, Bambakidis, who sided with Michael. Soon after, we found out that Felos and Bambakidis’s brother belonged to the Order of American Hellenic Educational Progressive Association—but we couldn’t find conclusive evidence that Felos influenced Greer to pick him. As far as we know, this was the only trial Bambakidis testified in as an “expert witness.”
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4. Multiple boxes of documents were handed over to our initial attorneys. When Pat took over the case, she found them disorganized and out of chronological order. In his book
Litigation as Spiritual Practice
, Felos describes the maneuver as “the discovery game . . . Bury the smoking gun in a mountain of evidence . . . You strategically place your client’s incriminating internal memo among thousands of useless but similar looking data . . . do everything possible to give up as little as they can.”
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5. I do remember Terri having bruises on her arms and legs. She said they came from roughhousing with Michael.
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1. In fact, after we were prohibited from getting any of Terri’s medical information, it was sometimes revealed to us by one of her doctors, a few sympathetic nurses, and in one case a discharged patient. In addition, we would sometimes see antibiotic fluid hanging from her IV, and so knew she was receiving care.
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2. Additional stays had been granted, extending the date to October 15, 2003.
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3. Glenn’s loyalties to Terri and my family never stopped throughout the remaining years of Terri’s battle to live. He remains a close friend and is someone my family will be indebted to forever.
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4. April 1995 to July 1996.
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5. Another certified nursing assistant at Palm Gardens.
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1. Actually buffet tables were set up in front of the hospice. Food was supplied by church ministries, local restaurants, and ordinary people, all chipping in to help us.
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1. We were told the hospice paid for the police protection. By the end, it added up to hundreds of thousands of dollars. We thought that the money used to “protect” Terri could have so easily been spent on her rehabilitation.
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2. We immediately filed a grievance against Felos. It went nowhere.
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3. They might have been caused by the Hoyer lift which the nurses used to take her out of bed and put her back in each day.
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1. This angered Bishop Lynch, who later went so far as to claim nonsensically that Bobby had attacked him during a radio interview.
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2. Many of them were associated with the American Center for Law and Justice, a group that had lent their valuable support to us in 2003.
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1. It was after Felos’s accusation that we had tried to hurt Terri.
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2. A writ of habeas corpus is a judicial mandate to a prison official ordering that an inmate be brought to court so it can be determined whether or not that person is imprisoned lawfully. In family law, a parent who has been denied custody of his or her child by a trial court may file a habeas corpus petition.
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3. The technicalities then and now were too complex for us to understand. We were only interested in results.
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4. Judge Greer was the only finder of fact in Terri’s case.
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5. James D. Whittemore, U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Florida.
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1. It continues to happen, virtually every day. But all we did was fight for our daughter’s life. Why does that make us celebrities?
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2. Our request for a neutral pathologist or a neutral observer was turned down.
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3. Mikey’s wife, C. B.
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4. Michael told Larry King that Terri collapsed at 4:30, and he confirmed the time to the medical examiner. The seventy-minute time lapse, as Mark Fuhrman writes in Silent Witness, is highly suspicious, pointing to a scenario that Michael and Terri fought, that Michael inadvertently got her in a stranglehold—a position that might not leave marks on her neck—and that she collapsed because oxygen could not reach her brain. The autopsy report confirmed Fuhrman’s theory that they would not find any signs of trauma to her neck just as when she was initially examined at Humana Northside.
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1. According to the
British Medical Journal
, it is misdiagnosed 43 percent of the time.
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2. www.katesjourney.com.
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