Posted on 03/11/2005 2:42:15 PM PST by OrangeDaisy
LOS ANGELES — Actress Nicole DeHuff (search), who memorably took a volleyball in the face from Ben Stiller in the 2000 hit movie "Meet the Parents" (search), died of complications from pneumonia. She was 31.
DeHuff had twice visited a hospital shortly before her death Feb. 16 but was sent home both times, the E! Network's E! Online Web site reported Friday.
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Wow,she was so young!
How sad.
Wow, very scary. She was too young. Usually when someone dies of complication from pneumonia it's an old person
I wonder if she smoked? Sometimes even young smoker's lungs can't handle a serious respitory illness
There will be lawsuits most likely, this time deserved. Imagine mis-diagnosing such advanced pneumonia! So tragic.
Oops then sorry for the double post. I did a search on dehuff and got no hits. What's the deal? Oh I see--the keywords don't include dehuff on the other post. Since I goofed, I'll be nice enough to link to the other one.
And now I've added a slew of keywords to the other post. Keywords are a Freepers friend! Use them liberally.
Or someone with a compromised immune system, from a immunosupressive drugs for an organ transplant or a cancer treatment or from a disease like HIV that attacks the immune system.
SO9
" Imagine mis-diagnosing such advanced pneumonia! "
Similar thing happened to me in Japan back in 1994 . I didn't trust their diagnosis so called a friend who introduced me to another hospital ( sometimes need an introduction in Japan or you cannot get in ) and they immediately admitted me . Spent a rough week in hospital but it took me longer than that to overcome the psychological effects of coming so close to dying , and my mis-trust of the Japanese medical profession ( there was another incident involving my 1 year old daughter that you wouldn't believe ) ...
Yeah, the weird thing is that the headline makes it sound like it just happened. She died Feb. 16th! I guess it took them a month to figure out what caused it.
In THIS day and age??? That's simply appalling! Uncalled for! Someone did a whole bunch of something wrong!
The actress was from the OKC area. The local paper said she had Asthma. That might have contributed to her death.
The word "dehuff" isn't even in your title. The word has to be in the title.
1) Vast numbers of illegal invaders, oops I meant undocumented immigrants, demanding and getting free care.
2) Minimal or no reimbursement for the "insured" patients income due to shortchanging by managed care, Medicare and MediCal (California Medicaid).
3) A massive exodus of all decent ER specialists due to the (obvious) massive liability insurance costs and factors (1) and (2) listed above.
Very sad.
I would like to make a Focker joke, but the timing would be very bad.
Prayers for the family.
I don't know about yall but there is a terrible virus or something going around with people getting a cough that goes on for weeks with a feeling of smotheering. We had a relative in her 70.s who got it and died and a cousin who was in heer early 60's who got in a died in the last month. Both had the same thing everyone is getting, both smokers and both were in an ICU when they died.
All the people I know are getting this and I keep wondering why no alerts. It is a really really bad thing.
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