Friar Paul O�Donnell, spiritual adviser to Bob and Mary Schindler, said Florida hospice patient Terri Schiavo - under court order to be starved and dehydrated to death - received a visit from her father, Bob Schindler, and an old girlfriend of hers Sunday night, resulting in an "extraordinary� reaction to the latter.
Identified only as Sherry, the friend, according to an account in the Miami Herald, reminisced about their old times dancing and partying together.
According to the Herald, O�Donnell said Schiavo "raised her hands up and was moving and started making guttural sounds - like she does when she talks to her mother."
In what has become a somber mantra in the Schiavo saga, some doctors have consistently insisted that Schiavo is in a chronic vegetative state and that any apparent feedback to loved ones is only reflexive reaction to touching.
Meanwhile, Schiavo has now gone 10 days without sustenance of any kind and reportedly has been started on a morphine drip to ease discomfort as she slowly slides from life.
"Everyone is willing to write this woman�s obituary except one person and that�s Terri Schiavo," Friar O�Donnell said Sunday after the visit at the Pinellas Park facility.
Supporters of allowing Terri to live still profess hope that Florida Gov. Jeb Bush will intervene to replace a feeding tube that has kept Schiavo alive the last 15 years, but Gov. Bush has said more than once in the last 48 hours that there is no more he can do.
Meanwhile, O�Donnell and other family spokesmen have been making regular pleas to replace the tube before it is too late.
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