[UsnDadof8]

Coupled with his ability to magically bestow small businesses on people, does this qualify him as a "super hero" (as long as it's used loosely)

[Eastbound]

From his Bio:

http://www.chrisreevehomepage.com/biography.html

"Sadly Christopher Reeve died while in coma after going into Cardiac Arrest on Sunday, October 10th. Reeve was being treated at Northern Westchester Hospital for a pressure wound that he developed, a common complication for people with paralysis. In the week leading up to his death, the wound had become severely infected, resulting in a serious systemic infection

[jwalsh07]

Kerry is an incredibly bad liar and a despicable human being.

[conservativecorner]

This from a wizbang thread from a caregiver in reply to someone's question regarding bed sores and infections:

I work and volunteer in end-of-life care for the elderly and disabled. I have seen some pretty severe pressure sores, but none of them were to the extent that a patient had ever developed an infection from them [I'm assuming the caregiver is talking about a bloodstream infection such as staph]. I can't even imagine it, Reeves must've had an iron will to have had a system-wide infection and still be alive.

That's what raises a giant red flag for me. Before passing away in June, I took extensive care of treating, alleviating, and preventing bed sores for someone. He had fairly mild pressure sores (medically speaking, his life wasn't in danger but he had discomfort), and would not admit to his family he was in pain, only to the staff. The pressure sores were so painful he was given 1/4 of a mL of morphine sulfate, every 15 minutes, all the way up until the moment of death. He drifted in and out of lucidity, as most pain medications that relieve pressure sore discomfort are quite potent.

As you can imagine, that man didn't really care about politics, or current events, or even close friends, but just wanted to be with his wife and children, and priest. So I find it incredulous that Reeve called up an old friend to say "Way to go!"

[conservativecorner]

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/articles/13720166?source=PA

Reeve was being treated at the hospital for a pressure wound, a common complication for people living with paralysis.

In the past week the wound had caused a serious systemic infection. His heart failure is understood to have been a direct result of the infection.

[Casloy]

He meant George Reeves, who played Superman on TV. Can you all get it right???

[conservativecorner]

Actor, Director and Activist Christopher Reeve Dies at Age 52

10/11/2004 1:35:00 AM

To: National Desk

Contact: Wesley Combs, 202-887-0500 ext. 14 wcombs@witeckcombs.com

or

Glynnis Breen, 202-887-0500 ext. 26, gbreen@witeckcombs.com

BEDFORD, N.Y., Oct. 11 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Christopher Reeve died suddenly at 5:30 p.m. yesterday of heart failure. He was 52 years old.

On Saturday October 9, Reeve fell into a coma after going into cardiac arrest while at home. Reeve was being treated for a pressure wound that he developed, a common complication for people living with paralysis. In the past week, the wound had become severely infected, resulting in a serious systemic infection. Reeve was admitted to Northern Westchester Hospital on Saturday evening and never regained consciousness. His family was at his side at the time of death.

Dana Reeve, Christopher's wife, issued this statement: "On behalf of my entire family, I want to thank Northern Westchester Hospital for the excellent care they provided to my husband. I also want to thank his personal staff of nurses and aides, as well as the millions of fans from around the world who have supported and loved my husband over the years."

"The family asks that you respect their privacy at this very difficult time, "said Wesley Combs, publicist for Mr. Reeve.

Reeve is survived by his mother Barbara Johnson and his father Franklin Reeve, his brother Benjamin Reeve, his wife Dana, their twelve year old son Will and his two children from a former relationship, Matthew (25) and Alexandra (21).

At this time, no plans for a funeral have been announced. Additional information will be released as soon as it is available. Please visit http://www.christopherreeve.org for the most up-to-date information.

For those who care to do so, the family has requested that donations be made in his honor to the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation -- http://www.ChristopherReeve.org. Cards may be sent to the family in care of the Foundation at 500 Morris Avenue, Springfield, NJ 07081.

http://www.usnewswire.com/

[HenryLeeII]

Hey Owl, Mr. Reeve is on Line 2...

[GretchenM]

It IS remotely possible that Reeve did call and leave a message on kerry's voice mail before he was deathly ill and kerry didn't listen to it till Saturday.

But I'd like to know the truth of it all.

[flada]

In related news, John Kerry shares that he was indeed named after Sir Edmund Hillary.

[rang1995]

i had heard the sores had caused septic (sic???) shock which caused the coma and he would not have been in any condition to speak on a phone for days---if this is true this has to sink the s.s. kerry

[timestax]

GOOD CATCH!

[Lonesome in Massachussets]

That dastardly Karl Rove called him the moment Chris went into a comma, imitating Chris, just to embarrass Kerry.

[Protagoras]

Easily explained by spin doctors and swallowed by a public that believes what it wants to believe.

"The message was sent earlier but the Senator didn't listen to his messages until Saturday." Something along those lines.

[onyx]

Good Lord.
This is the first I've read about this!

[DoctorOfDemocracy]

This latest display of extremely bad taste on the part of KetchupBoy reminds me of the "memorial service" for Paul Wellstone which mysteriously transformed into the "renew" scene from "Logan's Run"! It's just as if they through Paul's corpse up on the carosel just before exploding it and shouting Renew! Renew! Instead, it was Tom Harken chanting "For Paul", "For Paul" - fight the fight for economic and social justice and screw the repubs! You know, the dead can't defend themselves - which like bad economic news - is good news for the Demoncats.

[llevrok]

Maybe he talked to Reeve in his hospital bed and Reeve said "integrity, integrity and integrity."? It is easy to mix up Reeve with Kerry's mother.

[Mike Bates]

Michael M. Bates: My Side of the Swamp