Posted on 01/13/2009 7:49:25 AM PST by Perdogg
A breath of fresh air is hard to come by in the Special Victims Unit.
Mariska Hargitay is on the mend after suffering a pneumothorax—aka a partially collapsed lung—but will not miss out on any episodes of Law & Order: SVU this season, according to the Emmy-winning actress' rep.
It's unclear if some sort of trauma prompted the injury or if Hargitay suffered a spontaneous pneumothorax, which can occur if more air pressure builds up in a person's chest cavity than is present in the lungs.
Hargitay's rep said, however, that the 44-year-old wife and mom was not injured on the job and was in fact on vacation from SVU, the highest-rated installment in the L&O family, when it happened.
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Mariska Hargitay... daughter of Jayne Mansfield.
Both Hotties!
Gosh, I remember when she was young. I guess I was young then, too.
Best wishes for an uncomplicated recovery.
She’s HOT!!!
is she conservative? does anyone know?
Nice lungs!
Ms. Hargitay is what I refer to as “boiling hot”. I stopped watching SVU when I realized that she and Stabler were probably never going to “do it”.
Law and Order is a very liberal series. 98% of the crime committed on the show is committed by white males.
OH MAN!!! yeah i think it was you or someone else who made that observation on a previous thread so i started paying more attention and sure enough...even when ALL of the core characters were black or hispanic, out of nowhere comes the cracker who dunnit. yesterday, however, there was a black guy who was the bad guy...it was such a shock to me i thought i should tape it just so i would know i wasn’t hallucinating...
When the wife of that Marine was trying to get some answers about the situation and the captain of squad said something to effect of what do you expect when your husband is part of a group where they measure a man's worth by how many kills they have done ....shut the TV off after that
Exactly. That’s why I love the Shield, it’s primarily black and mexican gangs, which is pretty much the reality out there. They don’t screw around.
I like her. She’s very talented.
i saw that one too Kimmers! of course they made her out to be a horrible lady and portrayed the military as a horrible establishment...yeah that episode made me want to strangle olivia...she sort of redeemed herself by apologizing to the marine at the end of the show but i agree with you...i don’t make an effort to watch it now...i should probably do more than that though...
I have had TWO spontaneous pneumothorax (pneumothori?) and they ARE NOT FUN. First they numb a spot on the side of your chest, then they cut between the ribs ALMOST completely through. Then they PUSH a ventilator line the rest of the way through and hook you up to a very slight vacuum to evacuate the chest cavity of any air outside your lung. You lie in bed about a week while your lung heals itself.
If it cannot or will not heal itself, then the doctor perform surgery where he goes in and patches your lung. It hurts like hell. And when he has decided that you have had the inflation tube in your chest in long enough, he takes it out using the “Bandaid” principle. Yank it out it one swift pull. It hurts worse than you can imagine.
It was during the second pneumothorax that I discovered my allery to morphine.
She is no doubt in a huge amount of pain and I hope the best for her.
Fwiw, I suspect the plural is “pneumothoraces.”
nobody on that show is that I know of.
I am more than willing to massage the sore spot for her. Repeatedly. For days on end.
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