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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Guess we'll have to wait & see why they posted that. It's not like it's the enquirer, ABC could get in trouble for posting something like that, no???
This is so sad. He was so determined to get out of his wheelchair and walk. I wanted him to succeed.
May God comfort his family and grant him peace.
What html are you using to post pics? I haven't posted any tonite, maybe a glitch in the new upgrades here.
Similar to bed sores when people are bedridden. I know how sore my bottom gets when I put in 4 or more hours on the puter, imagine sitting all the time & not being able to get up unless someone is there to move you.
It is a shame. He had everything. Then, he had everything taken away. Yet he was still upbeat, and found a reason and a hope to keep on going.
RIP. In a true sense, a man of steel.
Have you seen the news lately about "medicinal maggots"? They are being used is severe cases of gangrene and PRESSURE SORES (bed sores).
The maggots clean away every bit of decayed/infected flesh but they do not eat healthy flesh. They provide superior results where antibiotics fail. In fact, this is what was used before there WERE antibiotics.
Google it, I don't have a link handy.
Everything gets much trickier when the patient is a quadriplegic. The pressure sore didn't kill him. The sepsis did.
In Above Suspicion, Reeve plays a bad, bad cop faking an injury that has him in a wheelchair the entire movie, plotting the murder of his cheating wife and brother.
He was so passionate about his absolute faith he would walk again, I am sure he gave hope to a lot of other para and quadraplegics. It's a big loss.
ABC has pulled the article about Sharon Osbourne.
Here are the Amazon reviews. It was an HBO movie.
I think they WOULD be very simple to prevent. It seems to me that a cushioned pad with alternating air cells (picture an old-style air mattress, but with every other "tube" independently sealed--hook every other tube up to a pressure/vacuum source (small pump), and alternately deflate and inflate them). No part of the body is thus under pressure for extended periods of time. This wouldn't work for things like braces, but it seems to me it would do the trick for bedsores and similar problems.
I'm assuming it's whatever the latest version is for Windows XP (I'm woefully ignorant when it comes to this kind of stuff.)
Yes, for a bedridden patient. I started to post earlier that it's easier to prevent bedsores than pressure ulcers in neurologically compromised patients, but didn't want to confuse the point. Braces, clothing, immobility of position are the problems for active working quads and paras.
A mattress very similar to what you describe is in use at all the hospitals where I've worked.
I worked for a person whose horse injured him to the extent he was disabled. I am blessed with the kind of face horses HATE, though I love animals. So since they won't let me ride them, I guess it's just as well.
Good job AM. A long night for you, I'm sure.
My condolences to the families.
He turned in a good performance in "Sleuth," one of the longest movies I ever sat through in a theatre!
I hope he is cavorting with his horses with God today. Prayers for his family.
I don't know what was said, and certainly inappropirate things can be said. But when I woke up this morning and heard the new of Reeve's death, I immediately thought of Kerry going to the funeral and criticizing Bush for continuing to campaign. I'd be very surprised if enemies of a Free Republic, do not try to turn Reeve's death to their advantage.
ML/NJ
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