What did Terri Schiavo look like before the coma?

Search: terri schiavo; terri schindler

Why: Just thinking about vegetables. I don't think I've ever seen a picture of her other than this glamour shot (<-- do yourself a favor and click the hell out of that):

Answer: Aww :(

Source: Google Images

The More You Know: Remember when this was all anyone could talk about? In case you didn't have a TV the whole time this was going on like I didn't, here's how it played out:

• 1981 - At 200 lbs., Terri uses NutriSystem to lose 60 lbs. in a year under the supervision of Dr. Igel.
• 1982 - Meets and gets engaged to Michael Schiavo
• 1984 - Marries Michael at 145 lbs.
• 1985 - Misses a period, but isn't pregnant.
• 1987 - Weighs 121 lbs.
• 1990, Feb. 25 - Collapses and falls into a coma
• 1990, May - Emerges from coma, but remains unconscious; goes to a nursing home for 50 days
• 1990, June - Court appoints Michael her official guardian; Terri spends 10 weeks as a brain injury facility, closes her eyes to "threats around her face," makes "verbal output"
• 1990-91 - Goes to a bunch of different hospitals
• 1991 - Her PCP says she is in a PVS
• 1992, August - Michael meets Jodi Centonze and starts dating her
• 1992, November - Michael sues Dr. Igel for misdiagnosing her bulimia as infertility; Michael gets $300k and Terri gets $750, placed in a trust fund for her treatment
• 1993, February - Terri's parents disagree with the way Michael is handling her treatment and therapy; they all stop talking
• 1993 , July - Terri's parents challenge and attempt to remove Michael as legal guardian
• 1994 - The administration of one nursing home attempts, unsuccessfully, to get a restraining order against Michael because he demands more attention for his wife at the expense of other patients' care. Michael accepts the diagnosis that Terri is in an irreversible PVS and, in consultation with her physician, halts most therapy for his wife. Terri develops a UTI, and Michael follows a doctor's recommendation not to treat it. Michael enters a "do not resuscitate" order, which he later rescinds after the parents protest.
• 1998 - Michael files a petition to discontinue food and water for Terri Schiavo. Terri's parents fight the petition.
• 2000 - A whole mess of shit starts.
• 2001, April - Terri's feeding tube is removed for the first time. It is reinserted two days later on an appeal by her parents.
• 2002, fall - Jodi Centonze gives birth to her first child, Olivia, with Michael.
• 2004, spring - Jodi gives birth to her second child, Nicholas with Michael.
• 2003, Oct. 15 - Terri's feeding tube is removed for the second time.
• 2004, Oct. 21 - The Florida Legislature passes "Terri's Law." Governor Jeb Bush orders the feeding tube be immediately reinserted.
• 2004, May 19 - FL Judge overturns "Terri's Law." The ruling is appealed.
• 2004, Sept. 23 - FL Supreme Court agrees that "Terri's Law" is unconstitutional.
• 2004, Dec. - Dr. reports, "Schindler family members stated that even if (Terri) had told them of her intention to have artificial nutrition withdrawn, they would not do it."
• 2005, Feb. 25 - Judge George Greer orders Terri's feeding tube removed on March 18.
• 2005, March 11 - Someone offers $1M to Michael if he agrees to waive his guardianship over Terri to her parents. Michael declines.
• 2005, March 17 - Members of the FL Legislatur consider a bill that would make removing food and water from patients in a PVS illegal without a living will. The bill is passed by the FL House of Reps (78 to 37), but FL Senate defeats a similar measure hours later (21 to 18).
• 2005, March 17 - U.S. Senators Bill Frist and Michael Enzi announce that Terri would be called to testify before the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions on March 28 in Washington. No one expects Terri to testify, but the move extends witness protection to Terri, requiring reinsertion of her feeding tube.
• 2005, March 18 - Greer says the subpoena as unconstitutional. Terri's feeding tube is removed for the third and final time.
• 2005 - More stuff happens, but none of it gets the feeding tube put back in.
  
• 2005, March 31 - Terri dies.
• 2006, Jan. 23 - Michael marries Jodi Centonze after living with her for 13 years. During that time, he had repeatedly refused to divorce Terri and marry Centonze, despite being begged to do so by Terri's parents, who would then have become her guardians.

In Terri: The Truth, Jodi said:

Why didn’t Mike just divorce Terri and marry me? I find that question itself offensive. Why should he? Just because things didn’t work out they way they planned, is he supposed to dump her and get on with with next state of his life?

But she also said Terri’s mysterious collapse was God’s will:

I believe that God sent me to Mike…it was clearly God’s plan to take Terri that February morning in 1990.

I don't know.