Posted on 01/23/2021 11:22:45 AM PST by L.A.Justice
Actress Tanya Roberts, who starred in the TV sitcom That '70s Show and the 1985 James Bond movie A View to Kill, has died at age 65 from a urinary tract infection (UTI) that spread to other parts of her body.
The sad news came after a bizarre turn of events. TMZ initially reported, via Roberts' publicist Mike Pingel, that the star collapsed at home on Christmas Eve after walking her dogs. She was then taken to the hospital and put on a ventilator, according to the news outlet, but never recovered and died on Sunday (January 3). Roberts' husband of 18 years, Lance O'Brien, told the outlet he was unable to visit her in the hospital because of COVID-19 restrictions, but hospital staff made an exception when they realized the actress probably wouldn't survive. He believed Roberts died during his visit, and relayed the news to Pingel.
But on Tuesday, Pingel confirmed that Roberts actually died on Monday night. In a statement to Metro.co.uk, he said, "With a heavy heart I can confirm the death of Tanya Roberts (age 65) last night on January 4, 2021 around 9:30pm PT at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA."
The rep also confirmed that Roberts' cause of death was "a urinary tract infection which spread to her kidney, gallbladder, liver and then bloodstream."
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I don’t see why not, given that it’s just ashes, and thus, aseptic. I don’t know the rules on that. Hell, they allowed Ted Bundy’s ashes to be scattered on some Washington State mountain....
Then after testing, you get to wait 3 weeks for the results....then you get to wait a month to see a Dr.
Get used to it....with 30 million illegals gaining access to "free health care" this is how it will be forever.
Nothing that includes the word “infection” is ever not a big deal. That’s literally your body having poison growing in it, and it can go anywhere. Some women have symptom free UTIs. Can be very dangerous.
UTI is also a quick way to have someone admitted following insurance/medicare rules....
people come in for "dizziness" and get admitted for UTI....
Yeah, everything you said makes sense too.
Last year I survived gangrene, sepsis, flesh eating disease, and pnuemonia.
Lost my big toe and the flesh eating whatever that was (they were never sure) ate some tendons in my hand. A year later I have cellulitis in my leg.
The good news is I didn’t get Covid-19 !
Yep, my mom almost died from it
Not the usual symptoms, as when you’re younger
Very common in elderly, especially when incontinence kicks in
You'll never hear me defend the US healthcare system. It is effing terrible. Canada deserves bragging rights on this one. But there are good nurses and good doctors working in this terrible system.
That happened to my Grandmother. She died from it.
Will be added to the COVID stats.
Anyone remember “Toxic Shock Syndrome” caused by tampons?
Sepsis. If it “got away” from her and she waited too long for treatment. I’ve seen stranger things happen.
Wow! Someone must be looking out for you to survive all that.
My Business partner had to become a caregiver for her Mother who was in a dementia mode and everything went into a another state of things
Mom was agitated and other signs but she was crashing
She pushed the staff at the facility and a UTI was the culprit
Just because it is typical of the ladies moreso does not change the fact that an infection if the system that is responsible for us peeing is a cesspool of infection
Dude, think about it
Cleared it up and mom became more “normal”
Dementia
Change now and shun additives and chemicals
Choose
But do so wisely
How “convenient” to eat overly processed and chemical laden foods
Bulldog Out
damn dude. That’s rough. One of the worst things I ever saw was a young lady who contacted flesh eating bacteria in a foreign country while on vacation. She was diagnosed with “flu like symptoms” and went home and her flu like symptoms were actually flesh eating bacteria that took both her legs above the knee within a few weeks of her return from vacation.
“Urosepsis is lethal. As a young ER tech I saw loads of patients with this all the time. Mostly in older people”
And yet there is a treatment for sepsis called Cytosorb but all the politics, money and corruption make it years and many deaths before something can get by the FDA and their owners Big Pharma. If Big Pharma isn’t the developer good luck.
Cytosorb (blood filtration cartridge used via hemodialysis machines) has approval in Europe for ticagrelor removal (blood thinner) prior to cardiac surgery. And emergency use protocol in Covid patients for Cytokine Storm in the USA, Canada and other parts of the world. BUT it has shown marked improvement in Sepsis patients in limited studies.
Among several of my close friends in college was a woman who died at 69 from a urinary infection that turned to sepsis and reached her brain. She was under hospital treatment at the time and I couldn’t believe she died from urinary infection.
Of the four close friends in college I am The last one alive. One was murdered, one died from colon cancer and the above case of a urinary infection.
Losing loved ones is the toughest part of getting old.
I’m donating my body to science. $600.
I’m done with it.
Save the funeral money and take a great trip to Italy (a beautiful country).
No disrespect towards funeral directors and workers. They do a great job; but I want my family to have a fabulous memory to honor my passing.
My mother died from a UTI when it developed into MRSA
Interesting... thanks for sharing.
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