Posted on 05/02/2025 7:34:14 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Aimee Hall, who starred alongside Medas on the popular MTV reality show, announced the tragic news on Facebook on Friday, May 2.
“We lost our brother, our best friend, our heart — Kirk,” Hall, 32, wrote. “I was at the beach when I felt it. Before the call even came, a dolphin kept coming up to me, as if to say goodbye.”
According to Medas, he only ended up on “Floribama Shore” because he tagged along with a “nervous” friend who tried landing a spot on the show.
“My buddy called me and was like, ‘I’m getting interviewed for this TV show, I’m nervous and I need some comfort,” the Atlanta native told The Post back in 2017. “So I went over to his house and [the MTV producers] ended up meeting me and they asked if they could interview me.”
“I ended up making the cut,” he added, “but I felt bad because [my friend] didn’t.”
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What’s a Medas?
What’s MTV?
What’s a “severe illness”?
More regarding the cause of death: Necrotizing pancreatitis
What’s “What”?
CC
Never heard of that malady, but it sound nasty.
LOL!
The Florabama was or is a beach bar on the state line .
Half the bar is in Florida and half is in Alabama ...
Wild. Fun location.
Necrotizing pancreatitis is primarily caused by severe acute pancreatitis, which can result from factors such as gallstones, excessive alcohol consumption, trauma to the pancreas, high levels of calcium or cholesterol, and certain medications. When the inflammation is severe, it can lead to tissue death due to lack of blood flow, resulting in necrosis.
Weird. The same thing happened to me. I was in a deep sleep having a dream and the same dolphin came up to me and told me that this guy was going to die. disclaimer: I did not know the dolphin or the dead guy. How weird is that?
Say “what’ one more time! I dare you!
Samuel Jackson
Fun place. Been many times.
Gulf of America! 😁
Melanie was justified
My mother died just shy of 70 years old of acute “idiopathic” pancreatitis. She didn’t drink, didn’t smoke, no history of gallstones, was slightly overweight but not at all obese, no diabetes, no issues with high cholesterol or calcium, no medications that could cause this, no recent injury that would likely cause this.
She had some mild angina, diverticulitis and arthritis but was overall very healthy. It came on suddenly, at first thought to be a heart attack and admitted to Cardiac Intensive Care because she was having chest pains.
But while she may have also suffered a mild heart attack perhaps brought on by the stress of the pancreatitis, it was soon found not to be the main issue and moved to the medical ICU with many doctors at Johns Hopkins and across many specialties caring for her.
She was in the ICU and on a ventilator for over 2 weeks and the doctors at Johns Hopkins Bayview Hospital did everything humanly possible they could to save her, but she went into a coma the 2nd day after admission and then soon all her organs started failing – kidneys (and they put her on dialysis), liver, fluids building up around her heart, in her lungs, her entire body became bloated and nearly unrecognizable.
The one doctor who spoke to us after 2 weeks when they were out of options and needed to discuss were to go and “end of life care” with us, said her pancreas was liquifying itself and in turn also several nearby organs and spreading toxins all throughout her body through her blood from the necrosis (blood poisoning) and to her brain and there was nothing they could do to stop it.
The doctors discussed the possibility of removing her pancreas, and also, as would be necessary her gallbladder, spleen, a large part of her stomach and part of her small intestine but that would entail being on daily insulin, hormones and enzymes and many other drugs, likely a feeding tube and colostomy bag, and she would have to be on kidney dialysis for the rest of her life.
But they were also brutally honest that she’d likely never “awaken”, get off a ventilator or leave any sort of acute medical care facility, and it was even more unlikely she’d even survive such a surgery. And if she did there was still the liver damage, brain damage…
Knowing my mother’s wishes and that she would not want to be kept artificially bodily alive under such circumstances, we as a family decided to remove her from life support and she passed peacefully within minutes.
We agreed to letting them perform an autopsy. As the doctors explained they were puzzled by why she became so ill so fast and wanted to see if they could determine the cause and perhaps learn from her case and how that may save others in the future. Knowing my mother, I think she would have wanted that.
The autopsy showed no gallstones, no pancreatic cancer or tumors, no cancer in her pancreas or gallbladder or anywhere. That is why it was determined to be “idiopathic” meaning her pancreatitis and very sudden decline was of no known cause.
She was admitted to the hospital on New Year’s Eve of 1996. I visited her that evening in the cardiac care unit, and she was alert and talking to me, even joking around but the last thing she said to me was “Please pray for me”. And I said, “Mom, don’t be so dramatic, you are going to be just fine and get back home tomorrow.”
Less than 2 hours later I got a call from the hospital saying she’d gone into respiratory arrest and asking my permission to ventilate her and I rushed back to the hospital at midnight just as all the New Years Eve fireworks were going off all over the city.
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