Posted on 03/18/2009 9:57:50 AM PDT by Perdogg
sad.
ping
Awful. Too sad.
“...spoked...” What night school journalism class did this cretin flunk out of?
How horrid for her family and friends.
How sad. Prayers for her and her family, especially her sons.
I want to know if they scanned her brain in Canada? The autopsy doc said last night was classic of subdural. Tubes could have drained the blood/relieved edema.
If they PUT HER ON A LIST FOR A CT SCAN, this should drop the hammer on bambi’s socialized medicine.
This is just terrible.
I’d expect they’d likely donate organs. Prayers for them all.
Prayers for this woman and her family. Wow...you never know from one minute to the next.
She was on the BUNNY SLOPE, without a helmet..took a slight spill, got upo, felt fine, then an hour later, complained of dizzyness/nauseau
What a waste.
She seemed very down to earth and charming.
I am going to climb on my soap box here folks...plz bear with me. I hope this makes people understand the serious nature of concussion/closed head injuries. There is an expression, we have all heard it, 'getting your bell rung' to describe a 'minor' hit. If you even have momentary loss of mental function; even a slight blurring of vision; etc., because your head hit something or something hit your head IMMEDIATELY seek care. Don't shake it off, get back (or let your kid) get back into the game. Get to an ER.
i echo your remarks. As a hockey mom this is especially important to me.
You are so right!
A few years ago, a young boy in our town was riding his bike, and wrecked it. he got up and biked home. Lay down on the couch to watch cartoons, fell asleep and never woke up again. Same as whatappears to have happened in this case.
Indeed, PAMom... Walter Williams lost his dear wife from a seemingly minor fall where she hit her head.
Prayers for all involved.
“Spoked”: The past tense of the infinitive “to speak”.
Not quite “got up”. The instructor called the ski patrol, they transported down the hill and checked her out at the resort. Instructor was concerned enough by the fall to accompany her back to hotel where later she developed headaches, etc. Bunny Slopes ain’t a garden/ Snow conditions, speed, type of fall all contribute to some seriously nasty injuries.
15 years or so ago, I busted my head on a cabinet door. Hit is hard enough to see black for a few moments. Went to the Dr. He, in his almighty god complex, decided I was depressed because I was a divorced, single mom. Sigh. I actually had a concussion, after a quick visit to a different Dr., I found out.
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