Very strange presser too. The mayor contradicts himself several times, gets a phone call in the middle of it, knocks over the mic and then claims there were no security cameras at a place that is also a storage warehouse? Kelly was sitting up on the gurney talking to people(6-8 hours after ingesting the ‘substance’ according to the mayor’s statements on the tape it was between 9-10:00 when they believe the ‘aspirin’ was taken)..a ‘private’ ambulance transports him to Cook County at 4:15 a.m. and he is pronounced dead at 10:46 a.m. Saturday.
NOT BUYING IT!!
Overdose of Aspirin (salicylate poisoning) is common....mostly in young children who like the taste of Baby Bayor Orange Flavored aspirin. The thing which strikes me is the quickness of his death. There are several stages of salicylate toxicity. It begins with tinnitiis, vomiting, thirst, and diaphoresis.
As the levels build up in the bloodstream the patient begins to breath very fast (tachypnea) leading to a respiratory alkalosis which is the result of the drugs’ stimulation of the central nervous system. The third phase, which is the time during which one, untreated, dies, is characterized by a metabolic alkalosis. During the phase of metabolic acidosis one may fall prey to a hypokalemic (low potassium) level and then to a cardic dysrhythmia incompatible with life.
I say all of this to say, once a person is in a profound metabolic acidosis, they usually are not explaining what transpired during their day.
He would have had to take in excess of 20 grams of salicylate.
My question is.....”With this man talking to the police, even if obtunded, it seems very, very reasonable to believe he could have been take to the nearest medical facility for treatment, which is fairly standard ER/Internal Medicine fare. How could he have been conscious, speaking, and lucid and once he told them he OD’d of aspirin and then not rushed to the ER. Something is fishy.
25 posted on Sunday, September 13, 2009 9:13:35 PM by Texas Songwriter
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2338915/posts?page=25#25
Me either,they seem to have their own rules in Chicago.