My son will experience this tribute as he is down there with a school group.
Did socialized medicine kill these lovely and talented actress?
I am very sad about her death....I LOVED the twin movie.
Dignified send-off for a classy lady.
May Liam and the boys be comforted.
I had no formal training and for the first 3 years taking my kids skiing with the boy scouts, I practiced a combination of snowplow/controlled plummeting. One of the other scout dads showed me how to slalom enough so as not to look like total @$$. .....and of course I practiced my new found skills on some nasty black diamond trails.... and I took some incredible headers without more than being totally worn out and muscle fatigued for a day or too. Must be my thick NY head that saved me.
What a shame about Richardson....RIP.
The whole event is sadness on top of sadness.
Response: I think the correct term is an "..epidural hematoma...."
Comment: At any rate, what a freak accident. A minor bump and then death for a young person. So sad. Prayers for her family.
It was not a "bunny slope". As per canadian news articles, she fell on the lower portion of the 6km Nansen trail ( "Nansen bas" on the Mont Tremblant Trail Map, ) which is rated "beginner". I had experience of this type of trail when I skied a few times in New England when I was in college. They resemble a back road of sorts, and you're supposed to have a leisurely scenic run out of it.
The first I ever heard this kind of thing happening was back in the 70’s when Barry Oakley of the Allman Brothers was in a motorcycle accident. He said he was fine and declined medical treatment. He went back to The Big House where three hours later he fell ill and was rushed to the hospital. He later died of cerebral swelling caused by a fractured skull. For some reason that left an indelible impression.
Life is precious, sometimes so much so we take it for granted. My son hit the side of his head in a bmx accident. No one saw him hit. He was found wandering around in a daze. I took him to the hospital right away and he had a ct scan which revealed a subdural hematoma. Subdurals are venous blood and are less dangerous, but he still had two surgeries to evacuate it. Epidural are bad because they are arterial bleeds which grow faster.
From this article
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090320/ap_en_ot/obit_natasha_richardson
Yves Coderre, director of operations at the emergency services company that sent paramedics to the Mont Tremblant resort, told The Globe and Mail newspaper that he reviewed the dispatch records and the first 911 call came at 12:43 p.m. Monday.
Coderre said medics arrived at the hill 17 minutes later. But the actress refused medical attention, he said, so ambulance staffers turned and left after spotting a sled taking the still-conscious actress away to the resort’s on-site clinic.
At 3 p.m., a second 911 call was made — this time from Richardson’s luxury hotel room — as her condition deteriorated. An ambulance arrived nine minutes later.
“She was conscious and they could talk to her,” Coderre said. “But she showed instability.”
The medics tended to her for a half-hour before transporting her to a hospital a 40-minute drive away.
On Thursday, the ski resort where Richardson had her fatal fall was subdued, as employees refused to speak about the accident.
Couple of questions. Was she seen and ‘treated’ at the resort’s clinic? If so, did they miss something? Was a CT done?
When the second 911 call went out, and they found unstable, why didn’t the medics get her into the ambulance immediately, instead of waiting 30 minutes, knowing there was a 40 minuted drive involved, when time is of the essence?