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Marie O'Hara Donation Drive
Website Update

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Thursday, March 13, 2008 about 6:30 am (CST)

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This site is being updated
and moved
from its previous host at
someoneskid.keepkidshealthy.com.

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Phase III will begin today.
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Sunday, March 2, 2008 about 10:00 pm (CST)

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Phase II has begun today ...
and will continue throughout this week.
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 about 9:30 pm (CST)
and
Sunday, February 10, 2008 about 12:30 pm (CST)

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"Cowardice asks the question -- is it safe?
Expediency asks the question -- is it politic?
Vanity asks the question -- is it popular?
But conscience asks the question -- is it right?

And there comes a time when one must
take a position that
is neither safe, nor politic, nor popular;
but one must take it because
it is right."

                                   -- Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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With the assistance of a "Justice Team,"
Marie is arranging
a series of
COMMUNICATIONS and CONTACTS.

There will be about twelve "meetings" --
approximately twice a week --
between now
and EASTER (MARCH 23)
involving the "principal people."

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There will now be regular updates
to this site,
although this site will reopen
shortly with a new format.
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Wednesday, February 6, 2008 about 10:00 pm (CST)
Happy Ash Wednesday!
and
Monday, January 28, 2008 about 10:00 am (CST)
and
Friday, January 25, 2008about 10:30 am (CST)
and
Monday, January 21, 2008about 10:30 am (CST)
and
Tuesday, January 15, 2008 about 6:00 pm (CST)
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Welcome Back, SBU Students!

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In Memory of Dr. Martin Luther King
God, the Poor and Us:
Forty Biblical Reminders
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Monday, January 7, 2008 about 2:00 am (CST)
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Happy New Year 2008!

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As has become her custom,
Marie spent much
of the
Twelve Days of Christmas

in meditation and prayer
concerning hopes,
aspirations and goals
for the new year.
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She will resume contact with
First Baptist Church of Bolivar, MO
and the
Missouri Baptist Convention
this week.

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There will now be regular updates
to this site,
although this site will reopen
shortly with a new format.
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Tuesday, December 25, 2007 about 10:00 am (CST)

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Merry Christmas!
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Today, December 25, begins the
Twelve Days of Christmas!

Details to follow ...

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Sunday, December 23, 2007 about 10:00 pm (CST)

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Merry Christmas ...

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Tuesday, December 18, 2007 about 10:00 am (CST)

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Marie will be resuming
communications with
First Baptist Church of Bolivar, MO
and the
Missouri Baptist Convention
this week --
by Sunday 23, 2007.
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Thursday, December 13, 2007 about 8:00 pm (CST)

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Now that the weather is beginning to clear,
Marie will be resuming
communications with
First Baptist Church of Bolivar, MO
and the
Missouri Baptist Convention
within the day or so.
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Tuesday, December 11, 2007 about 7:20 am (CST)

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Because of an electrical outage,
the December meeting of the
Missouri Baptist Convention Executive Board,
scheduled for
yesterday and very early this morning
(December 10 and 11),
was not held in the Baptist Building
in Jefferson City, MO.

The Capital Plaza Hotel --
where the MBC Executive Board has
rescheduled its meeting --
cannot guarantee the confidentiality
of its fax facilities.

Therefore,
once the electricity is restored,
Marie will be faxing
the necessary materials to
David Tolliver,
Interim MBC Executive Director,
at the Baptist Building.

Marie will be resuming
communications with
First Baptist Church of Bolivar, MO
within the next few days.

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Monday, December 10, 2007 about 12:00 noon (CST)

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Barring further inclement weather,
Marie will be resuming communications
with
First Baptist Church of Bolivar, MO --
as well as the
Missouri Baptist Convention Executive Board
and
the (newly-elected) MBC Executive officers --
later today (Monday)
and early tomorrow (Tuesday).

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Sunday, December 9, 2007 about 9:00 am (CST)

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The second ice storm of the year
is in progress
and may make
communications and travel
for the next few days
impractical and uncertain.

Therefore, Marie may suspend
further communications
with the
First Baptist Church of Bolivar, MO --
as well as the
Missouri Baptist Convention Executive Board
and
the (newly-elected) MBC Executive officers --
probably until later this week
(or as soon as possible).

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Sunday, December 2, 2007 about 1:00 pm (CST)

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Early this week,
the current Trustees and Staff
(and the former pastor)
of
First Baptist Church of Bolivar, MO --
as well as the
Missouri Baptist Convention Executive Board
and
the (newly-elected) MBC Executive officers --
will be receiving
a second correspondence.
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Friday, November 16, 2007 about 4:30 pm (CST)

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James Sells,
Former President and Chancellor of
Southwest Baptist University,
Passes Away
Posted on November 27, 2007
Baptist Press

Our sincere condolences to his
family and friends.

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Friday, November 16, 2007 about 7:00 pm (CST)

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This week, the current Board of Trustees and Staff
(and the former pastor)
of
First Baptist Church of Bolivar, MO
received
the first of several written communications.
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Also, the
Missouri Baptist Convention Executive Board
and
the (newly-elected) MBC Executive officers
received initial written communications --
by way of (in the care of) John Marshall,
who is the pastor of
Second Baptist Church of Springfield, MO
and the newly-elected second vice-president
of the Missouri Baptist Convention.
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Sunday, November 11, 2007 about 6:00 pm (CST)

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This weekend (Sunday),
letters were sent to
First Baptist Church of Bolivar
and
the Missouri Baptist Executive Board
and
the (newly-elected) Executive Officers.

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Friday, November 9, 2007 about 9:00 pm (CST)

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Reflecting on Changes ...
in the Missouri Baptist Convention
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Save Our Convention' leader reflects
on victory's meaning for Missouri & SBC

Posted on November 5, 2007
Baptist Press

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MBLA leader reflects on defeat
Posted on November 5, 2007
Baptist Press
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Friday, November 2, 2007 about 7:00 pm (CST)

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Missouri Baptist Convention Changes ...
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Missouri convention overwhelmingly
rejects Moran-allied candidates

November 1, 2007
Associated Baptist Press

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Save Our Convention candidates
sweep officer elections
November 1, 2007
Word&Way Editor

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Missouri conservatives vie for office
Revised title:
Missouri Messengers Rebuff Project 1000 Leaders

Posted on November 2, 2007
Baptist Press

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Thursday, October 25, 2007 about 2:00 am (CST)
and
Saturday, October 20, 2007 about 1:00 am (CST)
and
Monday, October 15, 2007 about 9:00 am (CST)
and
Monday, October 8, 2007 about 9:00 am (CST)
and
Tuesday, October 2, 2007 about 6:00 am (CST)
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A serious situation arose
several weeks ago,
which unexpectedly prevented
the re-opening of this site.

That situation is now resolved.

Therefore, this site will (God willing )
reopen on the revised target date --
November 5-9, 2007.
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The Southwest Baptist University
Board of Trustees
met October 15-16.

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The Southwest Baptist University
Student Government Association
and
The Southwest Baptist University
Faculty Senate
and
The Missouri Baptist Convention
Executive Board
and
The Southwest Baptist University
Board of Trustees
and
The First Baptist Church of Bolivar
and
The Higher Learning Commission
of the
North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

and others
will be receiving communications this week
(October 27-31).

Much of this information will be posted.
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Tuesday, October 2, 2007 about 6:00 am (CST)

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Today, Marie has filed a preliminary complaint
with Southwest Baptist University's
accrediting agency,
the Higher Learning Commission
of the
North Central Association of Colleges and Schools.

 This initial complaint is to be followed by
a far more extensive complaint,
describing some 40 points of violation,
to be filed next week.

The details of these proceedings
will be featured as
a portion of the re-opened site.

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Special Announcement
Site Re-Opening This Week

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This site is in the process of
re-opening with
a new design, format and mission
by the week of
Sunday, October 27, 2007!

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Tuesday, June 5, 2007 about 10:30 am (CST)

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Marie's sister, Teresa (O'Hara) Garcia,
has gone home.

She died last night Monday, June 4
at 4:45 pm.

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Wednesday, May 30, 2007 about 6:00 am (CST)

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Marie has been investigating the possibility
of transferring her sister to
another medical center -- perhaps the
Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha,
which has an excellent neurological center.

Clearly, Horizon/Regional West Medical Center
cannot handle her care and rehabilitation.

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Your continued prayers and intervention
for the safety and protection
of Marie's sister and her family
are appreciated.

Her sisters room number is 115.
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Much More Detailed Update ...
Wednesday, May 30 and Thursday, May 31.
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Monday, May 28, 2007 about 5:30 pm (CST)

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Still More Petty Meanness
from the Hospital ...
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Get this! ... Marie just attempted to call
her sister for the allotted
five minutes a day.

One of the hateful nurses claimed that
this was the last time this week
that she would be allowed to call her sister
because they (the hospital) are only allowing
Marie to call time for
fives minutes three times a week,
instead of the five minutes each day,
which the guardian had promised Marie.

We all dreaded hearing this!

What new suffering does
Horizon/Regional West Medical Center
have planned for her sister this week?

It took Marie twenty minutes
to get a response from her sister on
Mother's Day, but we were all hopeful
that calling everyday would have
a similar effect eventually.

Marie believes that her sister
is still a person and
is still a part of her family and
still very much loved,
in spite of her
sister's disability and illness.

Please pray for the hospital and the nurses!

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Please call Todd Sorensen,
the president of the hospital
and leave a politely-worded message
requesting that the telephone service to
Marie's sister's room be restored
immediately so that her ministers and family
may continue to call and read scripture
and other literature to her,
tell her of family events and
otherwise provide
some comfort and care to her
EVERY DAY!

The number is:  (308)-630-1467.
It is not necessary to leave your name,
just your request.
Thank you.

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Your continued prayers and intervention
are always welcome --
using the Restorative Care Unit
(first floor) telephone:
(308)-630-1130.

Her new room number is 115.

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Saturday, May 27, 2007 about 4:30 am (CST)

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Human Dumping at
Horizon/Regional West Medical Center

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Marie has been warned by
several social workers,
hospital workers, townspeople and clergy
that because her sister is a Medicare patient
(and "resident" at the hospital due
to the foreclosure of her house and farm
and the abandonment by her children),
Horizon/Regional West Medical Center
will seek to reduce her sister --
through continuous drugging,
and suppressive and
physically-demeaning treatment --
into a nonresponsive, vegetative state,
so that she can be denied additional
restorative therapies
and can then be "dumped" into
a nursing home to die.

Perhaps as early as this coming week,
she will be transferred to an even more
inadequate nursing facility.

This will save the hospital money.

This is the way these things are done in Nebraska.

Her sister is left unmonitored for hours
in a stuffy, unventilated room --
alternately between perspiring from the heat
and then shivering from chill
when the fan is finally turned onto her
while she is still damp with perspiration.

The blowing fan irritates and dries her eyes
and introduces dust and particles into
her unprotected tracheotomy,
which along with the "chilling-sweats"
causes her to cough and breath heavily.

The intention is apparently to induce
pneumonia and respiratory collapse.

The nurses demand that she stay on her side
(even though it hurts her chest and heart)
and not be allowed to sit up or
move onto her back.

Apparently, there is no medical reason
for this measure; this is not for the
patient's ease and comfort,
but solely for the comfort of the nurses.

To keep Marie's sister as
nonresponsive and compliant
as possible so that the nurses do not have
to "waste time" caring for her sister's needs
or tending to her comfort,
the nurses drug  her and put back to sleep
each time she attempts to move or speak.

Marie was granted less than five minutes
to speak to her sister yesterday,
but the nurse abruptly cut off the line
and injected her sister with "pain medication,"
sending her back into what
the nurse called HS ("hours of sleep").

Every attempt her sister has made to
express herself as a person --
including her visible response and agitation
during discussions of sending her
to a nursing home -- is deemed to be "pain,"
and is shut down with more drugs.

Once she is drugged,
she is denied the privilege visitors or calls,
because she is "lethargic."

Marie has  repeatedly asked that
her sister receives both
physical and speech therapy
as often as possible,
as well cognitive therapies.

Clearly, though, she receives
no therapy and little actual care
during the weekends.

Given the demeanor of the nurses,
we are concerned that
she may come to harm
over the long holiday weekend.

There has to be a way to get her out
of this miserable hospital into somewhere
that can give her proper care!

Many have counseled that they believe
that the only recourse in this kind
of situation is through the courts.

Please continue to pray for Marie's sister's
recovery and safety
and the well-being of the family!
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Your continued prayers and intervention
are always welcome --
using the Restorative Care Unit
(first floor) telephone:
(308)-630-1130.

Her new room number is 115.

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Thursday, May 24, 2007 about 2:00 pm (CST)
and
Additional Entry -
ANOTHER OUTRAGE!  
THE HOSPITAL IS AT IT AGAIN!!!
about 3:30 pm (CST)!
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HALLELUJAH! HALLELUJAH! HALLELUJAH!
PROJECT BABY BIRD SUCCESS!


Project Baby Bird is a success!

MARIE'S SISTER IS NOW TAKING
FULL NUTRITION
THROUGH THE "TUMMY TUBE!"

Today, Marie has also been told that
she will be granted permission
to speak to her sister for
five minutes a day --
only with a nurse present, though.

Also, the youngest child,
her daughter
has been to see her mother this week!

Next, we are praying that she
begins to speak!

Marie has asked that her sister receives
both physical and speech therapy
as often as possible,
as well cognitive therapies.

Thank you for your wonderful prayers
and your efforts toward helping
Marie's sister.  

Please continue!

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ANOTHER OUTRAGE!  
SIGH!  THE HOSPITAL IS AT IT AGAIN!!!

We have just heard from some friends
that the hospital has posted Marie's sister's
room with a notice that noone
except the immediate (local) family --
who are minors and under state foster care.

Marie's sister left written instruction -- before
she went into surgery -- that there
should be no restriction whatsoever on visitors
during her recovery.

Marie's sister made it clear that
she absolutely wanted her friends
and the clergy to come to visit her while
she was recovering.

Her pastor is even denied admittance!

Hmmm ...
Perhaps the guardian and the nurses
are lying about
the success of the stomach
feeding tube, as well.
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PLEASE CALL!  PLEASE CALL!  PLEASE CALL!

The Restorative Care Unit (first floor)
(308)-630-1130
is refusing to allow anyone --
including her ministers, church friends,
and co-workers
to visit in Marie's sister's room --
except the immediate (local) family
(who are minors and under state foster care)
and the guardian,
who is a court-appointed stranger.

This is expressly
against Marie's sister's written
instructions.

Please call Todd Sorensen,
the president of the hospital
and leave a politely-worded message
requesting that the visitation to
Marie's sister's room be restored
immediately so that her
ministers, friends, and co-workers
may continue to visit and read scripture
and other literature to her,
MONITOR HER CARE,
and provide familiar companionship
and comfort and care.

The number is:  (308)-630-1467.
It is not necessary to leave your name,
just your request.

Thank you.
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Congratulations to 2007 SBU Graduates
SBU Students,
Have a Great Summer!

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Saturday, May 18, 2007 about 3:40 am (CST)
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Marie's sister has been
almost twenty - five days without full nutrition
(glucose only),
since the UNsuccessful stomach-tube
surgery on April 26.


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There is no word that Marie's sister has
been given any nutrition
this weekend in spite of her pleas
to the Regional West Medical Center
president.

Marie has not been permitted to even
speak to her sister by phone,
in spite of her ADA request.

Marie is very distressed that her sister
may not survive the week.

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Friday, May 18, 2007
Additional Entry - Project Baby Bird Warning Revision -
about 10:30 pm (CST)
(see below)
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Friday, May 18, 2007 about 11:11 am (CST)
and
Additional Entry -
Project Baby Bird about 2:30 pm (CST)
and
Additional Entry -
Project Baby Bird - Letter to President Todd Sorensen:  
about 5:00 pm (CST)
Additional Entry - Project Baby Bird Warning Revision -
about 10:30 pm (CST)
(see below)

Marie's sister has been
almost twenty - four days without full nutrition
(glucose only),
since the UNsuccessful stomach-tube
surgery on April 26.
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Marie sent (by fax) this letter to
Regional West Hospital's President
Todd Sorensen
Project Baby Bird
this afternoon
Friday, May 18, 2007 about 4:00 pm (CST).

Copies were also sent to:
Judge Worden,
Marie's sister's guardian, Ms. Garza,
her sister's (and the children's) social workers,
Shirley Knodel, VP of Patient Care,
the first floor Nurse's Station,
Dr. Scheppers
Dr. Hughes
Dr. Graves.

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Project Baby Bird
Calling Any and All People
of Goodwill
in the Scotts Bluff, Nebraska Area
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The last time that she spoke to her
sister earlier this week --
before the hospital refused to allow her
to call into her sister's room anymore
(see below) --
Marie asked her sister
to open her mouth
for the nurses and
ask the nurses to feed her.

Three friends have now reported that
when they have visited her this week,
Marie's sister opens her mouth wide --
like a baby bird -- and cries.

Still, the nurses have not feed her,
though her lip is now so swollen
from biting her lip in hunger
that it has to be bandaged.

She can bite down on the suction tube
and she is, of course, swallowing her own saliva.

We are asking that anyone
who has a kind heart and an hour to spare
go over to her hospital room (Room 115)
at the Regional West Medical Center
and bring a small container of organic yogurt
with fruit such as
blueberries, raspberries, or cherries
and a popsicle stick.

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Request the head nurse's permission
and/or training first!

Please use the popsicle stick to drip
into the yogurt and let her lick the
yogurt from the popsicle stick.

She has a tracheotomy and this
could be dangerous to her.

Request the head nurse's permission
and/or training first!

If this seems a desperate request --
perhaps even bizarre --
you have probably never witnessed your
loved one starving to death in front
of your face.

Believe us when we say that this experience
puts a whole new spin on reality.
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Marie has tried to explain to the
doctors and nurses
that when her sister has had a large dose
of antibiotics, especially those
as powerful as Vancomycin and Piperacillin,
she needs to have
some probiotics (such as those in yogurt)
in order to settle
her digestion.

She will need to eat a little bit at a time
over several hours about
four or five times a day
over the weekend,
until we can get her some help this next week.

We have heard that several in the Scotts Bluff
area that this hospital is infamous for not
feeding disabled people and that
the FAMILY OR GUARDIAN
MUST SIT HER UP
AND FEED HER THEMSELVES,
or she is likely to starve to death!

If you can volunteer to help Marie's sister
on a regular basis for the next several weeks,
please leave your name with
the first floor desk nurse for the guardian
and Marie will ask the guardian
to provide payment for you
(at minimum wage)
from her sister's monthly disability.

We had been told that no one else could feed
her but the nursing staff,
but apparently that is not true.

Please, please, please someone help
to feed her over the weekend
to keep her alive until we can get
a paid worker there on a regular basis.

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Letter to Todd Sorensen about 11:11 am (CST)
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Marie sent (by fax) this letter to
Regional West Hospital's President
Todd Sorensen
ADA Telephone Communication Request
this morning
Friday, May 18, 2007.

Copies were also sent to:
Judge Worden,
Marie's sister's guardian, Ms. Garza,
her sister's (and the children's) social workers,
Shirley Knodel, VP of Patient Care,
the first floor Nurse's Station,
the hospital Activities Director,
and the hospital Communications Director.

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New Telephone Number!
Please call Todd Sorensen!

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We would appreciate your continued
prayers and intervention.

The number for the Restorative Care Unit
(first floor) telephone is:
1 (308)-630-1130.

Her new room number is 115.

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Thursday, May 17, 2007 about 7:40 pm (CST)
New Telephone Number!
Please call!
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The Restorative Care Unit (first floor)
(308)-630-1130
is refusing to allow anyone
(including her ministers, family and friends)
to call into Marie's sister's room phone,
which was changed to a speaker phone yesterday.

Please call Todd Sorensen,
the president of the hospital
and leave a politely-worded message
requesting that the telephone service to
Marie's sister's room be restored
immediately so that her ministers and family
may continue to call and read scripture
and other literature to her,
tell her of family events and otherwise provide
some comfort and care to her.

The number is:  (308)-630-1467.
It is not necessary to leave your name,
just your request.
Thank you.
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Thursday, May 17, 2007 about 12:00 noon (CST)
and
Additional Entry - Not the Best News :  about 6:50 pm (CST)
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Marie's sister has been
almost twenty - three days without full nutrition
(glucose only),
since the UNsuccessful stomach-tube
surgery on April 26.

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Additional Entry - Not the Best News - Splinted Tears:  
about 6:30 pm (CST)
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A friend has reported that when
she visited yesterday,
Marie's sister was in severe pain,
crying,
with tears staining her face.

Her arms are both splinted and wrapped
nearly to the elbow
due to the cramping of her arms --
which is the result of lying on her sides
(and consequently her arms)
since the surgery on March 23.

The nurses refuse to allow her to sit up
or lie on her back!  

They merely keep her on her sides and
injects with pain killer
if an outraged visitor complains
that her sister is obviously suffering
and crying
from lying constantly in this position --
with her arms strapped up in splints.

The room was overheated and
Marie's sister was covered in perspiration.

(This was after Marie had already called
earlier that day and --
having heard her sister breathing heavily
and suffering from the heat --
had requested that
the fan be turned on in her room.)

This kind of neglect and abuse is what the
Nebraskan Medical Board calls
"medical treatment?"

"I suppose these nurses spend the weekends
torturing kittens
and pulling the wings off butterflies,"
said an astonished friend.

"I hope the investigators throw the whole
lot of them in jail and
the judge sentences them to endure the
same tortures that that inflict on their patients."

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State Investigation in Progress

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We have heard today that several
multipage
EXTENSIVE COMPLAINTS
regarding the severe mistreatment
of Marie's sister
have been filed against
Regional/Horizon West Medical Center,
their social workers and others
with several
Nebraska state agencies.

We will post details as we receive them.

As far as we know,
Marie's sister has not yet received
full nutrition,
nor has she
been allowed to sit upright,
in order to prepare to eat normally.

She has not been seen by the
the neurologist, gastrointestinal specialist,
or cardiac specialist,
nor has she received full
physical or speech therapy.

There are no plans,
as of yet, to transfer Marie's sister
to a specialized facility with better
diagnostic and restorative care facilities.

Marie has still not received
medical consent from the guardian.

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Please pray for the health, protection
and safety
for Marie's sister ...
and for the investigators that
could save her life.

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Tuesday, May 15, 2007 about 6:30 pm (CST)

Marie's sister has been
almost twenty - one days without full nutrition,
since the UNsuccessful stomach-tube
surgery on April 26.

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Deja Vu -- Part Two
and Coming Full Circle

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The same intrepid friend
who had last night documented
that Marie's sister is, in fact, conscious
returned to her bedside today --
with the court-appointed guardian,
Ms. Garza, in tow!

The friend repeated the same sort
of commands as the previous
night and Marie's sister repeated
similar responses!

Even the guardian had to agree that
Marie's sister is responsive.


There is no doubt that Marie's sister
IS CONSCIOUS
and that
Regional/Horizon West Medical Center
is starving a conscious --
but disabled -- person to death.

At least six individual persons have seen
Marie's sister respond to requests
or commands --
such as, open your mouth,
move your leg,
or push on my hand.

The last time she had spoken to her sister
by phone some weeks ago, her sister
tried very hard to respond to her,
and said, "Hi," several times, and then
spoke one more syllable as plain as day:
REE
the name that she used to call Marie
when they were little.

This past Sunday, Mother's Day,
Marie was permitted
to speak with her sister for a few minutes,
since the children -- 
on the advise of the hospital
and social workers --
have completely abandoned their mother.

In the middle of a sentence,
her sister, normally completely silent,
interrupted Marie
with a small, high, squeaky cry:
Reeeee!? 

Marie was startled and struggled
to regain her composure,
explaining to her sister
how she should try very hard
to respond to the nurses and doctors.

Again, Marie was interrupted
by her sister:
a huge, perfect sigh,
which was so quintessentially
normal and like her sister
that even a non-family bystander
understood exactly
what it clearly meant:
"Yes, but when do I get out of here."

If they are unable to heal her,
send her to somewhere
with more experience:
the University of Colorado hospital
has the facilities
to care for Marie's sister.

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Monday, May 14, 2007 about 6:30 pm (CST)

and

Additional Entry - Good News! :  about 10:30 pm (CST)
UNDENIABLE RESPONSES!

Marie's sister has been
almost twenty days without full nutrition,
since the UNsuccessful stomach-tube
surgery on April 26.

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Deja Vu -- All Too Familiar

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"Are you going to sue?  Who's Marie's attorney?"
That's what the nurse at
Horizon West Medical Center,
-- which cooperates with
Regional West Medical Center -- asked.

Marie was stunned, "What?"

No one had said ANYTHING about
suing ANYONE.

It has been insinuated
by several different sources, that,
apparently,
in order to get the feeding-tube
for her sister restored,
Marie is going to have to sign a waiver
specifying that she and the children
will not sue the hospital
for malpractice --
or, alternatively, find some other way
to reassure the hospital
that they will not have to face
any consequences
for their mistakes and misconduct.

Otherwise, the small-town medical team
at Regional/Horizon West Medical Center
intends to starve Marie's sister to death,
if she doesn't die from the
medication-induced kidney failure first.

We are back at the same filthy scenario:
Dead patients tell no tales.

A different sister, but the
same dirty little-town politics.

Marie's sister is marked to die for the
Almighty Dollar, once again.

The "care" that Marie's sister is receiving
is at best inappropriate
... or completely nonexistent.

According to several nurses,
Marie's sister does not even have a
primary care physician
at the moment.

No one is watching for her care!

And the doctors and nurses know
that what is happening is --
Just.  Plain.  Wrong.

"Do they teach this corruption in
nursing and medical school these days,
or do they learn it in some profane
version of Sunday school?"
Marie commented quietly to a friend.

"Money!?
Is that what it comes down to
for these ... people?
Do they honestly believe that the entire
state of Nebraska --
and every other mid-western state
put together --
could possibly come up with enough
money to pay
for my sister's life?"

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UNDENIABLE RESPONSES!
Additional Entry:  about 10:00 pm (CST)

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A friend checked on Marie's sister today.
The nasal feeding-tube has
still not been restored,
so she is getting only glucose.

She is still on her side, because
the nurses are forbidden
to help her sit upright in the bed.

So, the friend turned on the
classical radio station
and asked her,
"Listen, if you like this kind of music,
move your left foot!"

And Marie's sister
MOVED HER LEFT FOOT!

Not her right foot, her LEFT foot.

So, the friend asked,
"Can you open your mouth?
Open your mouth."

And Marie's sister
OPENED HER MOUTH! --
not very big
(a kind of "little fishy" mouth),
but she definitely understood
the request!  :-)

If they won't feed her, we will have
to help her to eat on her own --
since she has not been able
to receive nutrition
since the UNsuccessful stomach-tube
surgery on April 26 --
almost twenty days.


We are very concerned that someone
might do something to
sabotage this small success.

Please, please, please pray for her
protection and safety!

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We would appreciate your continued
prayers and intervention.

The number for the Restorative Care Unit
(first floor) telephone is:
1 (308)-630-1130.

Her new room number is 115.

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Next Update ... Late Tuesday, May 15.
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Monday, March 5, 2007 about 9:00 am
and
Sunday, March 4, 2007 about 3:00 am
and
Thursday, March 1, 2007 about 12:00 noon

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Next Posting
Soon ...
possibly late tonight (Monday-Tuesday).

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Abundant Progress!

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Over this past week,
additional contacts
(and the abundant progress)
were secured.

These efforts and connections
should culminate
in an Announcement,
a website renovation,
the opening of a group blog,
and
copious posting
within the next few weeks.
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Initial background,
details and documents --
including
the letters
Rev. Billy Russell
and Dr. Ray Leininger --
should be posted beginning on
Sunday, March 4, 2007,
possibly late night.
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Your prayers are
encouraged and appreciated!

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Monday, February 26, 2007 about 8:30 am

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Very good progress!

Details
to be posted on
Thursday, March 1, 2007
about noon.

Your prayers are appreciated.

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Next Posting
Thursday (March 1, 2007) ... Noon.

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Thursday, February 22, 2007 about 6:00 -6:30 am and 9:00 am

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Timetables and
the Mission
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Over the next few weeks
leading up to Easter,
we will be attempting to keep
this cyberlog and website
as current as possible.

However,
events in the "real world" --
that is, in the situation "on the ground" --
will inevitably result
in some delays and lag-time in posting.

Also,
safety, security and confidentiality precautions
require that some elements
of this endeavor
not be made
public until after the fact.

The previously-posted
two requisite resource publications
for participants
are integral to an understanding
of this process.

From the Restorative Justice Consortium documentation:

Restorative practices are underpinned
by a set of values,
these include:
Empowerment, Honesty, Respect,
Engagement,
Voluntarism, Healing,
Restoration, Personal Accountability,
Inclusiveness,
Collaboration, and Problem-solving.

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Also, please review

Southwest Baptist University's
Mission and Vision Statement.

See the excerpt from:
the Southwest Baptist University
2006-2007 Catalog, pages 3-4,


which pertains directly to the
previously-posted
Handbook of the
Higher Learning Commission
of the North Central Association
Chapter 3,
The Criteria for Accreditation

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As always,
your patience and prayers
are sincerely appreciated.

Thank you.

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