What I can’t wrap my mind around is the mindset of people who would move political heaven and earth to keep Terri Schiavo’s soul-cored shell alive, yet wouldn’t lift a finger for me, a living, internet-posting person, and would be quite willing to let me die for want of a very doable surgery.

Maybe the medical necessity for surgeries such as the one I require should be reframed as a right to life issue.