Very sad story.
whatever happened, this is a sad story. my condolences
What would the media have them do? Hold a Press conference?
These people are in shock and deserve our sympathy and we should respect their privacy. Not a slam at the poster, but in general.
Just because I plop down ten bucks to see a movie, does not mean I have any right or expectation that these people are my friends.
I can admire that in anyone.
My sincere condolences to the family.
Scientology will see them through.
Sadder yet is the possibility that Travolta's Scientology beliefs might have contributed to the death.
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What remains to be seen is if there is any fallout over the lack of medical care for the son’s seizure history do to the parent’s Scientology belief’s.
Interesting tidbits from the news:
- McDermott told us it’s not unusual for Jett to sleep 12, even 16 hours a day, so Jett not being present is not unusual.
- We’re now told the grand mal seizures Jett suffered were “frequent and extremely serious.” Travolta’s lawyers, Michael Ossi and Michael McDermott, tell us “each seizure was like a death,” with Jett losing consciousness and convulsing.
- We now know Jett was taking a drug called Depakote, a strong anti-seizure medication. Jett had been having seizures on an average of every four days, until he started taking Depakote.
- Ossi and McDermott say the drug initially worked, reducing the frequency to approximately once every three weeks.
- Jett took Depakote for “several years,” but it eventually lost its effectiveness, according to Ossi and McDermott. They say the Travoltas were concerned about possible physical damage. And, Jett went back to having around one seizure a week. So Travolta and Preston, after consulting neurosurgeons, stopped administering the drug. No one is suggesting withdrawal of the medicine in any way caused the fatal episode.
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I find it odd that the media call Jetts careprovider or respite care provider his nanny.
The young lad had a disality that required around the clock care.
I have had many respite care provider over the years to allow us to have a break from each other a 24 hr careprovider and those that we have had are either skilled CNA/Nurses or have learned there skill through years of working with the severly disabled.
Hard to come by quality care and to hire someone whom lives in your home is something I personally could never do I like to have the work enviroment and also our private lives.
John having a wife and daughter I can see the need to have a live in careprovider to keep the emotional balance of his loved ones.
My heart goes out to Mr. Travolta and his family for there loss as many freepers here know their is some wonderful human charactoristics in the heart/soul of the severely disabled kids they raise.
This is not intended to be flame bait, he and his family has my complete condolences in this but I just can’t help but wonder -
His son has a history of seizures, and he is very active in his religion. Does he share Tom Cruises’s feelings of non-medication and instead rely on Scientology’s beliefs?
This is not intended to be flame bait, he and his family has my complete condolences in this but I just can’t help but wonder -
His son has a history of seizures, and he is very active in his religion. Does he share Tom Cruises’s feelings of non-medication and instead rely on Scientology’s beliefs?
This is not intended to be flame bait, he and his family has my complete condolences in this but I just can’t help but wonder -
His son has a history of seizures, and he is very active in his religion. Does he share Tom Cruises’s feelings of non-medication and instead rely on Scientology’s beliefs?
No one should have to bury their children. But for our grandparents and great-grandparents, it was a too common occurrence.
Sheesh. Condolences to the Travolta family.
My 21 year old son has epilepsy.
His seizures started right after Sept 11, 2001. They continue to this day.
He lives at home and basically lives the live of a hermit but that’s his choice - he refuses to be put in a home. He graduated in the top 10% of his class, needs a wheelchair if he is out & about for extended periods.
After his first siezure he was interviewed numerous times in private about whether my wife, I, or any other relative may have abused him.
This goes on every time a new medical team or social worker is involved.
Then the subtle attacks about being in an “intact family”, that’s right. Somehow it’s unusual to 90% of the social workers out there.
He has had four brain surgeries, and a fifth to plant a pacemaker like device in his vagal nerve located in his neck which they snaked up through his armpit. It helps but in case of a severe attack someone else has to activate it for him. He has up to twenty siezures a day, mostly mild but some can be quite severe (even with meds).
He has been on every anti - siezure medicine known to man, that and in every combination possible. They work, then they don’t, then another combo is tried. That’s why it is called a medical practice. Trial & error.
Though they can dice up (doctor’s words) his frontal lobe to prevent the siezures from travelling across the brain but he won’t have the same personalty he has now - think One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest, etc.
Everyone in the family, immediate & extended helps out - I have to be in the bathroom anytime he showers, I have to walk up and down the stairs anytime he goes up or down them.
Yet he has to live like the rest of us and he isn’t supervised 100% of the time 24/7 nor was he in any of the hospitals he has been in - it’s damned near impossible and from his point of view unwanted.
And yes I’m when my son eventually passes on (a lot of folks on long term anti-siezure medicine cocktails usually die from a sudden heart attack) we’ll face the same idiots Travolta and his family are facing now.
I say lay off the guy and his family.
Report: Conflict in Timeline of Events in Jett Travolta Death
Sunday, January 04, 2009
Conflicting reports have emerged over the timeline of events leading up to the death of actor John Travolta’s 16-year-old son Jett.
Police forces in the Bahamas say that Jett was left unattended for more than 10 hours — a claim which the Travolta camp is vehemently denying — according to TMZ.com.
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“With lots of emotion that goes through a family in a time like this, it’s understandable to come to your own ideas or terms, but we have an obligation to assure and convey with our public that the information we give is solid. The investigation is ongoing, but we stand by what we have said,” police in the Bahamas told TMZ on Sunday.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,475724,00.html
Last I heard John tried CPR on Jett until the medics arrived but Jett was still DOA. I can’t imagine their suffering. Sweet Jesus be with the Travolta family.
The media needs to leave this family alone!
What a bunch of scum sucking bottom feeders they have become!