My heart goes out to them. I know what it feels like - One second, they're there, next second you're in the hospital saying WTF?
You know what they say about payback? Well I'm the bitch.
Fred ,'Life of the Party'
Spike's Bitches 44: It's about the rules having changed.
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Vortex - Mar 19, 2009 8:16:37 am PDT #4069 of 30000
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Frankenbuddha - Mar 19, 2009 8:31:36 am PDT #4070 of 30000
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
Re Natasha Richardson, I wonder if she had been hurt more initially after the fall, if she might have gotten help sooner and things could have been caught in time to do something.
megan walker - Mar 19, 2009 8:37:52 am PDT #4071 of 30000
"What kind of magical sunshine and lollipop world do you live in? Because you need to be medicated."-SFist
Re Natasha Richardson, I wonder if she had been hurt more initially after the fall, if she might have gotten help sooner and things could have been caught in time to do something.
I actually wonder if it was the fall.
DavidS - Mar 19, 2009 8:42:38 am PDT #4072 of 30000
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
If she fell backwards it doesn't take too much of a crack on the back of the head to cause serious brain damage.
SuziQ - Mar 19, 2009 8:55:54 am PDT #4073 of 30000
Back tattoos of the mother is that you are absolutely right - Ame
Bummer! The Parkway Theater in Oakland is closing. I loved that place. Saw Rocky Horror there and Jailhouse Rock and a few others. I know, I know, I'm not there any more, but just know that it is going to be gone is sad making.
Sparky1 - Mar 19, 2009 9:09:14 am PDT #4074 of 30000
Librarian Warlord
I thought blood could only be stored for a certain amount of time?
It's cryopreservation, so whatever it is they think they'll be able to use it for, it's not needed fresh.
Oh, I'm sad about the Parkway, too, despite no longer living there!
Polter-Cow - Mar 19, 2009 9:09:32 am PDT #4075 of 30000
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
Suzi, I am so sad too. I'm going to see Let the Right One In on Sunday at 8:45. Does 'Suela check Bitches? I should invite her.
Hil R. - Mar 19, 2009 9:12:29 am PDT #4076 of 30000
Sometimes I think I might just move up to Vermont, open a bookstore or a vegan restaurant. Adam Schlesinger, z''l
Oy. I'm going over some of my health insurance stuff. My insurance is refusing to cover anything that's a "congenital condition." Which, for me, means pretty much everything ever except occasional sinus infections. Those get covered, but those are $10 visits to the clinic.
Sean K - Mar 19, 2009 9:19:39 am PDT #4077 of 30000
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Re: Natasha Richardson - it's not at all unheard of for closed head trauma victims to get up and walk away, only to fall into a coma and die hours or even days later. I suspect her unhelmeted head bounced off a snow covered rock or even just a hard patch of ground.
Ginger - Mar 19, 2009 9:21:54 am PDT #4078 of 30000
"It didn't taste good. It tasted soooo horrible. It tasted like....a vodka martini." - Matilda
I thought blood could only be stored for a certain amount of time?
Yes, if you want it to act like blood. Cord blood has a form of blood-making stem cells in it, so if the child or a sibling later got something like leukemia, the stem cells could be used to treat it. It's kept frozen like embryos.
As a person with an uneasy relationship with gravity, I find the Natasha Richardson story unnerving.
Yay, endocrinologist! That's pretty fast, as these things go, and I suspect that may be the answer.
I'm back from the doctor's office with round three of antibiotics for the Sinus Infection That Will Not Die, this time with extra added prednisone. If this doesn't work, I get to have a head CT and be sent to an ENT doctor. This doctor at least agreed with Dr. Google's diagnosis that my very painful mouth is a form of candida and prescribed at antifungal medication. Too bad the previous doctor didn't believe me; this thing might have been gone a month ago. She was running late and it took about two hours to get in. When I mentioned that the other doctor blew me off, she said very dryly, "But he's always on time."
I'm a mess. I'm beginning to think longingly about the idea of a therapeutic coma.