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09-04-2014, 11:48 AM | #1 |
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| Joan Rivers has passed "It is with great sadness that I announce the death of my mother, Joan Rivers. She passed peacefully at 1:17pm surrounded by family and close friends. My son and I would like to thank the doctors, nurses, and staff of Mount Sinai Hospital for the amazing care they provided for my mother. Cooper and I have found ourselves humbled by the outpouring of love, support, and prayers we have received from around the world. They have been heard and appreciated. My mother's greatest joy in life was to make people laugh. Although that is difficult to do right now, I know her final wish would be that we return to laughing soon." - Melissa Rivers Not sure who else is a comedy fan here, but I'm actually genuinely upset over here. What a loss to the comedy world today. And so soon after Robin Williams. Sheesh... The red carpet will never be the same...
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09-04-2014, 12:09 PM | #2 |
Yorkie mom of 4 Donating YT Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: LaPlata, Md
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| Me and my Grandmother loved to watch fashion police. I wasn't very optimistic once she was taken to the hospital then even less so when she was moved to a private room and being kept comfortable. Sad.
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09-04-2014, 12:45 PM | #3 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: USA
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| Love her or not, she is an icon whose presents will be missed.
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09-04-2014, 12:56 PM | #4 |
Rosehill Yorkies Donating YT Member Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Houston Texas
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| I am also very sad to have to face, yet again, a person that really did not have the "knowledge of an insider in the medical field", has paid for a clinic's gross negligence with her life. And not to approach this from a political angle, but rather to use this example strictly as a teaching moment.....when Rick Perry passes laws that demand that clinics (abortion) have doctors that have hospital affiliation, have specific resuscitative equipment and training for staff members, etc, or they must not be risking womens lives performing abortions, THIS is exactly what he is trying to prevent. I have NO concern about what a woman wants to do as fae as her body is concerned, but I do advocate for patient's that THINK they are safe in clinics. If a clinic is not prepared to provide effective CPR, and if physicians that run the clinic do not have affiliation with a hospital within close proximity to that clinic, any patient that is undergoing procedures in that clinic are at grave risk of loosing their lives in the case of an emergency. You see what happened in Joan's case, and this clinic was close to a hospital....still, it only takes 3 minutes for an untrained staff to fly around in a panic, calling 911, trying to figure out what to do next.....without oxygen, your heart begins to slow...when she had a cardiac arrest, that tells me she was without breath for at least 45 seconds....her heart slowed, then stopped, and I can just imagine these people scrambling around in a panic, waiting for an ambulance to arrive.....this is sooooooo unfortunate. I can imagine she was "on life support", ie a ventillator, and sedated into a medically induced coma....but I would imagine they had already tried to start waking her up, stopped all sedation, and were getting no response, so over the last 3 days they were doing the EEGs to signify zero brain activity. That is when the family was faced with that gut wrenching decision, they moved her to a private room so the family could be with her, and I suspect they removed the ventillator at that time.....and the first trailblazing female comediane of the century, passed on. How tragic....I wish she would have had the information available to her to know if something happens we probably wont be able to resusitate you effectively.....Now, I do hope there is a lawsuit....and I can only imagine how the notes and records at that clinic have already been "adjusted" to try to show no negligence on the part of the clinic. So sad........ Last edited by Yorkiemom1; 09-04-2014 at 12:57 PM. |
09-04-2014, 01:32 PM | #5 | |
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At the ortho surgeon's office where I worked, during one of our emergency drills, we couldn't get our oxygen to flow(!), even though the regulators were regularly tested, and it was at least four to five minutes until the extra tank was found and fetched back to the room our fake-crashed patient, now certainly a brain-dead fake-dead patient, was in. And we didn't sedate or administer general anesthesia to anyone ever in our clinic! But we just never had a plan in place in case any of the equipment malfunctioned - until then. I also wonder at the pre-op work-up she got - if that was as thorough as it should have been for someone her age. Then I also heard she was out performing her act at a function the night before her procedure instead of showing up for surgery in an assured rested state. I sure hope this opens the eyes of people having procedures that anytime you are rendered unconscious, your doctor needs to know you are medically able to withstand the sedation and the procedure and that the facility he's working at has a crash team present, an AED plus all of the frequently tested, working equipment and unexpired drugs needed to efficiently resuscitate a patient who crashes.
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09-04-2014, 02:24 PM | #6 |
YT 500 Club Member Join Date: May 2013 Location: Roseville, CA
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| Well, the consolation with regard to the clinic she was at is that the health department is opening an investigation against them, tho it does little for the loss of Joan herself. I agree, I hope the family sues the pants off them. My understanding is that they shouldn't have even been performing that procedure on a woman her age. If she needed it done, she should have been in a hospital with a fully trained staff at their immediate disposal. Gosh, doesn't seem real, which is crazy. The woman lived the fullest of lives, but you always forget that these people, tho legendary are still human and not immortal...
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09-04-2014, 02:38 PM | #7 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: May 2008 Location: Maui, Hawaii
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| I am also shocked and saddened at Joan Rivers' loss. I can't even put into words how I feel about it all right now, I am just so sad but also so mad at the doctor, because this absolutely should not have happened.
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09-04-2014, 04:46 PM | #8 |
Donating YT 500 Club Member Join Date: Oct 2008 Location: Canton, GA
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| RIP Joan, my earliest memories of Joan are her appearances on QVC with her little Yorkie Spike. I remember thinking how cute Spike was. Positive thoughts for her daughter and Grandson.
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09-04-2014, 04:47 PM | #9 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| I totally fell in love with little Spike!
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
09-04-2014, 06:36 PM | #10 | |
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__________________ Catherine-Mommy to Remy 1 yr 9mths Roxy 6 years RIP Fritz & Hershey 7/2011 My little dog — a heartbeat at my feet. ~Edith Wharton Last edited by Cat2861; 09-04-2014 at 06:37 PM. | |
09-04-2014, 07:49 PM | #11 | |
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09-04-2014, 08:40 PM | #12 | |
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__________________ Catherine-Mommy to Remy 1 yr 9mths Roxy 6 years RIP Fritz & Hershey 7/2011 My little dog — a heartbeat at my feet. ~Edith Wharton Last edited by Cat2861; 09-04-2014 at 08:42 PM. | |
09-05-2014, 05:22 AM | #13 |
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| She made such a way for women in comedy and didn't take any crap. I will always remain a ranger and I will miss her strength deeply. RIP Joan...now you and Robin Williams will have the heavens above in stitches.
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09-05-2014, 06:20 AM | #14 |
♥ Love My Tibbe! ♥ Donating Member Join Date: Feb 2011 Location: D/FW, Texas
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| I'll admit it - I used to laugh like an idiot at her Liz Taylor jokes!
__________________ Jeanie and Tibbe One must do the best one can. You may get some marks for a very imperfect answer: you will certainly get none for leaving the question alone. C. S. Lewis |
09-05-2014, 06:57 AM | #15 |
YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: SoCA
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| I was so saddened to learn of her death. She was such a dynamo (sp) for someone her age. Amazing schedule. What a terrible shame. I saw her in concert and she had you laughing the entire time. RIP
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