Nicole DeHuff, an actress who played Teri Polo's sister in Meet the Parents, has died of causes related to pneumonia. She was 30.Posted on 03/11/2005 12:23:10 PM PST by crushelits
Nicole DeHuff, an actress who played Teri Polo's sister in Meet the Parents, has died of causes related to pneumonia. She was 30.
The actress died Feb. 16 in Hollywood, four days after she reportedly checked into a Los Angeles hospital, was misdiagnosed and sent home with orders to take Tylenol.
When her condition worsened, she returned to the hospital and was prescribed antibiotics for bronchitis and again sent home. Two days later, paramedics were called to her home after she collapsed, gasping for breath. By the time she reached the hospital, she was unconscious and passed away soon after.
Meet the Parents marked DeHuff's feature-film debut. She played Deborah Byrnes, the sister whose wedding prompts Gaylord "Greg" Focker's (Ben Stiller) visit to girlfriend Pam Byrne's (Polo) childhood home to attend the ceremony and, as suggested by the title, meet the parents. Hilarity ensues.
In one of the movie's most memorable scenes, a Speedo-clad Stiller spikes a volleyball into DeHuff's face, breaking the bride-to-be's nose and cementing his own unpopularity.
DeHuff also appeared in 2004's Suspect Zero with Ben Kingsley and in an independent film called Killing Cinderella.
She also starred in the as yet unreleased independent film Unbeatable Harold, directed by her husband, Ari Palitz, and costarring Dylan McDermott and Gordon Michaels.
On the small screen, DeHuff had roles in CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, The Court, The Practice, Dragnet, Without a Trace and Monk. She also appeared in the TV movie See Arnold Run.
A native of Oklahoma, DeHuff graduated from the Carnegie Mellon University acting program.
She is survived by Palitz, her husband of four years, as well as her sister, her mother and her father.
http://www.mercola.com/2003/jan/15/doctors_drugs.htm
we don't know that.....I hope he did though.....
Are you a woman? I hate dealing with dr's as a woman. I had one guy suggest I see a counselor for my "tired" feelings. That time I had fluid in my lungs.
Yes, I have picked up pneumonia. I have a pneumonia infection running its course. Not all cases of pneumonia result in fluid in the lungs.
Now that makes a whole lot of sense. LOL. The reason this woman died is because she had an infection in her lungs -- meaning she needed strong antibiotics. But your article blames doctors and hospitals for the side effects of drugs -- ie. for those in Rio Linda, the adverse reactions to drugs. Blaming doctors for even using drugs.
You can't have it both ways. As per Seinfeld, "Choose 'elaine' -- any 'lane'" -- but, JT, use your own brain, please.
Maybe but...it won't bring this young woman back. Very sad story.
You must not have seen my profile page. ;)
Yes, I am a woman, and a large, loud, assertive one at that. Health care is a business like all others. I expect proper services for payment, and if I don't get what I pay for, I take my business elsewhere.
Sepsis is different than a virus that affects the heart. I have a co-worker who needed a heart transplant due to a probable viral infection that "attacked" his heart, causing it to massively weaken (he's a pediatrician). Cardiomyopathy/heart failure from a virus is very rare, though, and is different than a bacterial infection that gets into the blood, and causes multi-system organ failure(as probably occurred with Henson).
Was she being ignored because Michael Jackson was in the same hospital at the same time?
Depends on the type of pneumonia whether you hear rales or not.
She worsened two days after going to the hospital and being prescribed only tylenol. Then they gave her antibiotics, but I bet it was one of the weaker antibiotics since they diagnosed her with bronchitis instead of pneumonia. Then she worsened again and died two days after that. She died within four days of first seeking help.
If they hadn't been afraid to prescribe her an antibiotic the first time, even if that antibiotic didn't work and she got worse, the second time they would have hit it with a strong antibiotic.
"shallow words"
Whether or not they are shallow, they are true.
I had pneumonia once when I was a kid, and it was originally misdiagnosed. I used to have a lot of respiratory ailments back then, and I figured it must have been easy for the doctor to mistake it for something else.
A simple chest x-ray would have caught this.
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