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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Chipper no doubt is grazing on the other side of the Rainbow Bridge, waiting on you! :-D
Nice pic.
WOW!! I was born in 54, and when my dad bought the tv MY
first show was Superman!!......then Fury:)Small world, huh ? :^D
Yep! Fury, My friend Flicka, etc. Those were the days!
(Whoops, that was with Archie and Edith, and came later!
hehe!) .....
Oh, I'm glad you had a nice nurse who let you pull off your own stickies! Put baby oil on the sites, if you have any residual sticky it will help soften it and it will wash off easier. I hope you are doing well now.
I don't see any reason why ANY device that presses on the skin cannot be equipped with some form of "active padding". Of course, the smaller the area of contact, the more difficult it becomes.
May he rest in peace.
"Somewhere in Time" is one of my all-time favorite movies.
Great post in #38. And as for this: "Just think how many young spinal injury patients have been encouraged by the indomitable example of Christopher Reeve!"
iirc, I believe he spent a lot of time communicating with young people with this devastating injury, encouraging them, giving them hope.
I don't have a link, though--it was just something I heard/saw on the radio or tv some time ago.
Braces are padded and carefully fit, with many subtle alterations for day to day changes (swelling, etc) figured into the manufacture.
Problem is, they have to be rigid to provide support. Where you have rigidity, you have potential for pressure, no matter what kind of padding. I'm thinking that miniaturization would be needed for areas such as the knee, the ankle--but I'm also thinking that variable pressure padding would interfere with mobility--pressurizing at the wrong time, depressurizing and not giving support, etc.
I'm only pointing out difficulties that I, as a critical care nurse, can imagine. Who knows what could be invented--you may be the guy to do it. Good luck. It's thinking like yours that has helped and changed the outlook in the past.
Hmmmm, this sound ssimilar to how Woodward "interviewed" Casey (former CIA director) when Casey was in a coma.
Anyone else hear sKerry's comments?
One was banned but came back under a similar name I think, and the other 2-3 still post often, but I totally ignore anything they post.
It is sad that people attack Reeve about this yet we had people actually praying that Clinton would make it through his heart surgery ...and we all know that a lot of us despise the Clintons.
Too bad people didn't go by that old saying ..... If you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all.
Don't fly or ride a bike anymore. The reason I don't ride horses, is that they can sense that I f-e-a-r them, and they respond accordingly. I don't know why or when I developed that fear of large animals.
I know what danger is. Did 3 tours in Nam ('69-'72), was robbed and shot walking out of a Boca Raton restaurant, and survived 3 near-fatal car crashes.
I hear Reeves tried a very risky jump and the horse balked? True.
What a glorious physical specimen of the human male he was. At that age, he was damn near perfect.
Not even a "very risky" one. I've had horses balk at a jump they took 10 or 12 times the day before. Hell, I had one balk at a jump she'd taken about 45 seconds before, in the same round.
I don't know if the jump was risky. I've read the horse took two just fine then balked at the third. I don't jump so I know nothing about it what would be risky and what wouldn't.
I do know that if you ride your going to get dumped occasionally. I took a bad fall about 1 1/2 years ago. Going down a trail at a pretty good clip and deer jumped up out of the grass suddenly. Spooked the horse and he jumped out from under me. That's hard on a 50 year old women:) I've had a fear now of that spot and have to really work at not tensing up. You're right horses sense that sort of thing. For a while the horses I rode all got very alert there, because they could feel me getting ready for it.
Fear to a certain degree is a good thing. Most accidents are because the rider got to cocky.
Becky
bump
Perhaps he ought to consider changing his screen name. Unless this is what "Christian love" is.
Okay...YOU tell her 3 children that. I am not that sactimonious. Abortion is totally wrong. But rather than throwing away the bodies, maybe they can help save someone's life.
I truly hope you never HAVE to make such a decision!
Actually my son is almost as big as Superman and he uses a barrier free lift to tranfer it is attached to the cieling.
Regarding pressure sores a custom seating system has kept him sore free also appropriate bed system.
They have beds nowadays that are bladders with fine sand whirlled around by water, like laying on a dry jacuzzi.
Of couarse these thing are way overpriced but I am sure Superman had funds to purchase custom equipment.
His headrest is very similar to my sons.
Our guess is that he may not have had enough hydration leading to an unbalance of electrolytes thus heart failure. My son has to have feeding via a g tube pump 24/7 at a rate of 150ml per hour that works out to be 2 quarts of formula and 1 quart of water in a little over 24hrs.
That is just our guess we know nothing about Mr. Reeves health or care he was given.
I broke L4 and L5 riding a horse still have cronic pain to this day but don't take meds just cope. I was very lucky as my son depends on me as his sole/main careprovider.
Your point about hydration is a very good one... a lot of what I did every day, and knew, has slipped into the dusty corridors of lost memories- back then, it was iced tea and cranberry juice, seemingly by the gallon.
My kind regards to you- having been a sole provider, I know it's a tough row to hoe, sometimes.
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