Posted on 10/11/2004 1:42:46 AM PDT by daylate-dollarshort
Actor Christopher Reeve Dead at 52
Monday, October 11, 2004
BEDFORD, NY — Christopher Reeve, the star of the "Superman" movies whose near-fatal riding accident nine years ago turned him into a worldwide advocate for spinal cord research, died Sunday of heart failure, his publicist said. He was 52.
Reeve fell into a coma Saturday after going into cardiac arrest while at his New York home, his publicist, Wesley Combs told The Associated Press by phone from Washington, D.C., on Sunday night.
Reeve was being treated at Northern Westchester Hospital for a pressure wound, a common complication for people living with paralysis. In the past week, the wound had become severely infected, resulting in a serious systemic infection.
"On behalf of my entire family, I want to thank Northern Westchester Hospital for the excellent care they provided to my husband," Dana Reeve, Christopher's wife, said in a statement. "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."
Reeve broke his neck in May 1995 when he was thrown from his horse during an equestrian competition in Culpeper, Va.
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One of the times a horse reared up and fell over backwards on me was when I was riding an unbroken horse.
I do still ride bareback, I've always done it and it just seems right for me. As a kid I jumped bareback, ran barrels bareback and other dumb stuff. My worst accidents were when I had a saddle on. I am, however, very careful of the horses I now ride. They have to be very reliable to be a bareback mount. The horse I ride the most now is a paint and you could set him on fire and he wouldn't do anything.
Rather than not cantering, you probably need to put some ring time on that horse and work on balancing and body placement (of the horse and yourself) in a controlled environment. Especially out on the trail, you may find yourself in a position where you NEED to canter - or where your horse decides to canter - and knowledge is power.
And if your ribs are delicate, you might consider investing in a shock vest. The new ones are actually quite comfortable and not too hot and sweaty.
Are you riding English or Western?
In this case, I see what you call RESPECT as PC.
BTW, I do respect your right to your opinion, though it be against mine.
I loathe abortion, anything connected to the "benefits" of abortion, and the activities of those that support either. Should I keep my big fat keyboard shut about it? No way!
The mare and I both had similar expressions on our faces . . . like, "No, we ain't goin' NEAR that stuff . . . we are totally in agreement."
My mare and I have a contract - I don't put her at anything big and ugly, and she jumps whatever I put her at. She has only refused me once, and I have ridden her from the start (she is an ex-broodmare who wasn't broken until she was 14). She was right to refuse too, because I was very uncertain about the jump. We were out on a cross country course for the first time, and the jump was what's called a "coffin" - a telephone pole on the takeoff side, and a ditch, about three feet wide and four feet deep, with planked sides. It looks very nasty from the saddle - like it's yawning for your reception. I didn't like it either, so she just dropped her haunches and stopped one stride out. We got a lead over for the second attempt and we were both fine. She hasn't refused anything since.
Three feet is not all that big, if you work up to it gradually in the ring. I think most of the jumps in our hunt country are three feet and smaller . . . typically the stone walls are maybe two feet, the coops anywhere from 2 1/2 feet up to three. I don't like to jump the mare any bigger than 3 feet in any case, she's 19 now and I want to keep her legs and feet in good condition.
LOL! Never heard that one before. My mare's pretty bombproof, a huge industrial diesel air compresser once cut on within ten yards of her and she didn't even turn a hair (I jumped a mile). The only times she's shied with me are when some kids were giving each other wheelbarrow rides and shrieking and popped out from behind some trees, and when some guys were unloading oil drums from a truck and let one roll away down a hill. She has the grace to plunge straight forward, though, so I didn't come off either time.
Always goes in three's
Gordon Cooper's death last week was posted as rounding out the latest set of 3 - Leigh, Dangerfield, Cooper. With the passing of Christopher Reeve and Ken Caminiti, does that make five or are we two into the next set of three?
Everything happens in threes if:
You wait long enough, and
You stop counting when the list reaches three.
That coffin jump sounds like the name is accurate!
I think 3 feet is a good sized jump. It looks really big when you are cantering up to it! (I'm such a chicken) I'll bounce over some 18"ers to 24"er's but bigger than that, they really start to feel like jumps and I lose my nerve. I honestly don't know what happened to me to make me so nervous about jumping. As a kid the biggest jump I ever took was 7 tires (with a plank across), bareback. Just the thought of doing that now puts me in a cold sweat.
I go to the Grand Prix jumping competitions when they are in town and those jumps are humongous. A fixed jump that size, like the olympic ones you described, are just nuts. Incomprehensible.
That one really makes me sad. Damn. RIP Cami, and I hope you find the peace you were obviously looking for.
I love it! That is gorgeous! I used to sit and watch that movie over and over. Geez, the part where Jane Seymour was on the stage and she started speaking off of the lines in the scrpit to the play i memorized cause i watched it so much. And Christopher Reeves(Richard) was sitting there just staring just knowing she was speaking to him the whole time was so heart fluttering! My DH thinks it is silly! One of the best love stories of all times, IMO!!
Two wrongs don't make a right. If I were dieing I wouldn't accept stem cells from an aborted fetus. I'll die in good conscience, thank you.
Do you drive a car, do you fly, ride a bike, do you walk out of your house every morning:)
The fear of getting hurt could be applied to any/everything we do.
I ride horses every day:) I'm not trying to talk you in to doing it, but just put riding horses into prespective with any thing else. I bet the chances of being hurt like this on a horse is far less then in alot of other things people do.
It was an unfortunate accident, not the riders fault, not the horses fault, just and unfortunate accident.
Becky
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You guys are making me so nostalgic for my hunter humper pony Chipper! He was a half Arabian pony that was the most fun a girl could wish for growing up. We were really successful on our local and state circuit. Every once in a while, I have a dream about him. My sister had her foot amputated a couple of years ago and has since gotten into dressage. She loves it and her Fresian (Waldo) and Thoroughbred (Willie). Her horses are the best therapy in the world. When you grow up with horses, I don't think it ever gets out of your blood.
When I first met my future wife, I was a big nerd, and I very much looked like a 'Clark Kent'. In fact I got called that now and then.
One of the first things she said to me was, 'You know who you look like?' I braced myself emotionaly for 'Clark Kent', but she said 'Christopher Reeve'. I knew right then she was a keeper.
I loved how he played Superman in those movies, even if the last two had really lame scripts. Superman was always my #1 favourite Superhero, not for his powers, but for sticking to a high moral code even though nobody could go after him if he didn't.
I'm not fan of his politics of course, but he did something good in the world and it should not go unnoticed.
Honestly, I don't know that much about rehab medicine. I do know that it should be possible. Still what do you do about braces? I know of several patients getting excellent treatment who suffered pressure ulcers from braces. Most were living independently and working.
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