Posted on 01/02/2009 2:01:13 PM PST by Bobalu
Rand Memorial Hospital in the Bahamas tells TMZ the son of John Travolta died today.
We're told 16-year-old Jett was vacationing with Travolta and wife Kelly Preston. We do not know the circumstances of his death.
There have been reports that Jett was autistic, though Travolta has denied it, saying he suffers from Kawasaki Syndrome, a condition which often leads to heart disease.
UPDATE: 4:00 PM ET -- Travolta's attorney Michael Ossi says Jett suffered a seizure at his family's vacation home at the Old Bahama Bay Hotel on Grand Bahama Island. Attempts to revive him were unsuccessful and he died on scene.
UPDATE: 4:40 PM ET -- Restview Memorial Mortuary and Crematorium in the Bahamas tells TMZ Jett's body would be transferred to Restview on Monday.
UPDATE 4:54 PM ET -- A police spokeswoman says Jett hit his head in a bathtub and apparently that triggered the seizure.
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amen RummyChick.
It’s a sick cult.
I feel bad for the Travolta family though.
RIP
I just hate questioning people when we don’t have all the information.
I don’t agree with Scientology, but sometimes I don’t think they are half wrong on the anti-medication for mental disorders, especially Ritalin.
It seems like these days there are a lot of over-medicated people in our society.
How old is your daughter? My daughter didn’t have seizures for almost 10 years, and then she had one when she hit puberty. I didn’t know that puberty could bring on seizures (so can pregnancy and menopause).
Interesting - this story was up on Drudge, but it has disappeared.
If you’ve read some of freeper Fishtalk’s posts about her husband’s condition, he has had many, many seizures that aren’t anything like what medical professionals would expect. They’ve had a lot of trouble treating his seizures, and his brain infection and high fevers. Sometimes medications don’t work, and sometimes checking for allergies is a good way to treat a child’s medical problem [not making any claims about fishtalk’s husband]. They don’t always check medications to see if children can take them, and Jett first got sick when he was very young.
May time heal their pain.
My daughter was tested for allergies this summer, and she had them. They definitely affect her. She was having terrible headaches and emotional meltdowns several times a week. If I give her an anti-histamine, she is much better.
I’d like to have her get allergies shots, but those are fairly time consuming and I don’t have the time to do that.
Ironically, puberty can bring it on and make them go away. My ex-husband stopped at 12 and my daughter hasn’t had one in a year, she is almost 12.
I wish the best for you with your daughter, and finding help for her. It sounds like you are doing all you can. Sometimes medical professionals are clueless, and you know more from observing your child than they do. Best wishes for you and your daughter.
We’re hoping my daughters are over with when she’s done with puberty.
It’s a love-hate relationship with the anti-seizure medication.
How terrible to lose a child.
May God comfort the Travolta family, their need will be great during this time.
How very sad for the Travolta family.
A blog?
Come on.
It is nothing but rumor about the Travoltas son and how they coped with his disablity unless the parents speak out themselves.
And money cannot heal a child with severe disablilities.
My Prayers with the parents.
That must be absoute despair. Thankfully I have not faced anything like that but I can imagine from lesser tragedies I have experienced that one can torment onself with "What if this?" and "What if that?" and "If only this" type of questions and it is very hard to break out of that type of thinking.
Yes, I went back to Drudge and searched for it but could not find it there.
God rest his soul and may the Holy Spirit comfort the family in this hour of need.
I might add also (as a comrade parent of a severly disabled son)
that not all disablilities are equal in that some kids recieve minimal therapies and some are run to exhaustion with therapies.
The latter may never walk/talk ect and the one with minimal therapy may do it all ie...walk/talk live independant.
IOW it is not fair to berate the parents on how well a child responds to rehab.
While brain injuries or brain related disabilities may have similarities no two are the same when it comes to recovery.
I’ll agree!!!!!
Yes! We must remember this.
Jett and his family are in my prayers.
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