A Voice to Speak for Others

You must read this. Dory has done a great job of interviewing a very remarkable woman, Kate Adamson.

Dory writes:
A sign hanging over Kate Adamson's hospital bed read,"THIS IS A HUMAN BEING LYING HERE, PLEASE TREAT HER AS A PERSON. SHE UNDERSTANDS EVERYTHING YOU SAY." The sign spoke volumes about frustration, a tenacious will for survival,of love, and of hope...
...Kate was in an intensive care unit, totally aware of her surroundings, but unable to respond. As she laid there, she listened as doctors, assuming she could not hear them, discussed whether or not to treat her. Kate had suffered a double brainstem stroke and her life hung by a thread."If she lives," her husband was told,"she will be a vegetable." .

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