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🗓️ 3 May 2025
⏱️ 35 minutes
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0:00.0 | When Tom Broderson started visiting Terry Shivo, he didn't have a specific goal in mind. |
0:09.6 | He just wanted to get to know her, see for himself what her condition was. |
0:13.6 | But when he hears her whisper the word no, there in her hospital bed, he's shocked. |
0:18.7 | I was just blown away. |
0:21.7 | This is a game changer. |
0:23.2 | If Terry can be taught to communicate, even just answering yes or no questions, that could |
0:27.6 | upend Michael's case. |
0:29.3 | Someone could ask her if she wants to keep living, or if she really does want to die. |
0:34.0 | Broderson tries to get her to say, yes, but she doesn't have the motor control to pull that off. |
0:38.7 | So he takes a different tack. |
0:40.4 | So I tried to teach her by modifying a moan to say, yeah. |
0:49.0 | And what I want you to do is I want you to moan and then close your mouth a little bit and then open it and it'll sound like this |
0:58.5 | Yeah |
1:02.0 | And she was able to do that she had the motor control |
1:08.0 | And she could answer questions So the thing that leaps immediately to my mind is... |
1:14.6 | Why do they let somebody like me in hospice to begin with? |
1:18.6 | No. |
1:19.6 | Well, that's what happened the next day is they quit. |
1:22.6 | What? |
1:23.6 | I was out of there. |
1:26.6 | ... What? |
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