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'Star Wars' Actress Carrie Fisher 'Stable' After In-Flight Heart Attack (abc7news.com)
Best-known for playing Princess Leia in the Star Wars trilogy and The Force Awakens, actress Carrie Fisher is recovering from a "cardiac event" Friday. An anonymous reader quotes ABC:
Her brother, Todd Fisher, told The Associated Press that she was "out of emergency" and stabilized at a Los Angeles hospital Friday afternoon... The 60-year-old "Star Wars" star experienced medical trouble during a flight from London and was treated by paramedics immediately upon landing in Los Angeles around noon Friday, according to reports citing unnamed sources.
Fisher reportedly remains in the intensive care unit while lots of celebrities are now wishing her a speedy recovery for Christmas, including Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, C-3PO actor Anthony Daniels, Chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew, and Billy Dee Williams, as well as Star Trek actors William Shatner and George Takei. Many fans are using the hashtag #MayTheForceBeWithHer, and she's even receiving messages of support from the Twitter account set up for her therapy dog, Gary.
Fisher reportedly remains in the intensive care unit while lots of celebrities are now wishing her a speedy recovery for Christmas, including Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, C-3PO actor Anthony Daniels, Chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew, and Billy Dee Williams, as well as Star Trek actors William Shatner and George Takei. Many fans are using the hashtag #MayTheForceBeWithHer, and she's even receiving messages of support from the Twitter account set up for her therapy dog, Gary.
I doubt that.
only 2 days late!
!Best-known for playing Princess Leia
What do you mean she's not best known for this???
When things get complex, multiply by the complex conjugate.
I would normally shrug this off, but for a lot of us who were kids in the 70s and 80s, Star Wars was THE THING. After I saw Star Wars at five years of age in 1977, I pretty much ate, slept, lived and breathed Star Wars. My dad bought me a bunch of the action figures, I had a friend who had an X-wing and another who had the Millennium Falcon. During recess and lunch, and when we were waiting for the bus, we pretty much talked about nothing else. So, as silly as it may be, when one of the cast of the original films dies or gets sick, particularly one of the big three, I sit up and pay attention.
I do hope she's alright. She's really not that old, but she has freely admitted she lead a pretty unhealthy lifestyle for many years.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Best-known for playing Princess Leia in... The Force Awakens
No kidding; I could've sworn that was Voldemort...
It's a way for people to take pets where pets are not normally allowed.
What's a therapy dog?
It's a dog that is trained to assist someone with a physical or mental disorder. Carrie Fisher is a self-confessed addict and alcoholic. Her therapy dog helps her to deal with stress and anxiety.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
As much as I grieve for one and hope for the recovery of the other, I don't see how they're connected.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
The amount of damage also depends on how big the artery is that got blocked, how completely it is blocked, and whether the blockage clears on its own. So that's not necessarily true. Also, there are some interesting stem cell treatments that can apparently dramatically improve outcomes.
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Im heartened to know she survived, but also somewhat surprised she survived her crippling narcotic addiction throughout the seventies.
Good people go to bed earlier.
When you have a blocked artery in your heart minutes count. If you are on an airplane over the ocean you are SOL.
Luckily for her they were close to landing so it wasn't like she was really in the air hours after the attack... she may yet have a chance.
"There is more worth loving than we have strength to love." - Brian Jay Stanley
Help me C3PR, you're my only hope!
As much as I grieve for one and hope for the recovery of the other, I don't see how they're connected.
C'mon, it's not that much of a stretch, is it?
Actually, yes it is.
One survived a plane crash after falling over 10,000 m.
The other developed a medical condition while on a routine transatlantic flight.
As others in your thread have pointed out, the death of Vesna Vulovic is newsworthy, but not connected to Carrie Fisher. It deserves a separate story on this site.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
St. Bernard dogs are often seen with a flask strapped to its neck because It's a therapy dog for rummies.
And Peter Cushing who looked 100 back then.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
St. Bernard dogs are often seen with a flask strapped to its neck because It's a therapy dog for rummies.
Nice snark, but consider the following quote:
Although in legend casks of liquor were strapped around the dogs' collars to warm up travelers, no historical records exist that document this practice.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
Everyone has a fucking therapy dog now. Back in the old days it was called manning up and dealing with your problems. Now you just trade addictions because behavior modification is too hard. Instead of being addicted to coke shes addicted to her "therapy dog".
I'm guessing you have never had to deal with mental illness. If you or a loved one ever had any exposure to the issue, you'd be singing a different tune.
Mental illness hurts. It is not easy to fix. You can't just "man up" and "snap out of it." It takes work.
If it weren't for deadlines, nothing would be late.
They usually contained milk.
"Wait. Something's happening. It's opening up! My God, it's full of apricots!"
Yes, I'm sure you were the weazily kid in the corner who thought Escape from Witch Mountain was the cinematic event of the decade.
The world's burning. Moped Jesus spotted on I50. Details at 11.
Could be a turkey!
"First they came for the slanderers and i said nothing."
"If a loved one of mine was suffering from a mental illness, I would kill them in their sleep."
Aaaand now we know the nature of your mental illness. Please seek treatment.
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And how much, if any, collateral circulation is present to provide blood flow to the area normally serviced by the blocked vessel.
I was looking for an update yesterday and found https://www.theguardian.com/cu...
From her brother:
Then after they manned up. They will become alcoholics, violent, or just some other problem to society. But they were tough though on the outside like a real man.
Or we can just improve our pet infrastructure to allow people to bring sufficiently trained pets who can just diffuse our problems with just a touch or a friendly action. Because such actions we cannot get from people anymore.
If something is so important that you feel the need to post it on the internet... It probably isn't that important.
Wait ermine it. Whoever told you you could spell mustelid, so I don't think you otter go round insulting people.
Confucius say, "Find worm in apple - bad. Find half a worm - worse."
Everyone has a fucking therapy dog now. Back in the old days it was called manning up and dealing with your problems.
No, back in the day it was called manning up and not dealing with your problems. And then you perpetrated your shit behavior on someone else.
Now you just trade addictions because behavior modification is too hard. Instead of being addicted to coke shes addicted to her "therapy dog".
People used to go to court-mandated AA and get addicted to Jesus. Christianity is probably about as harmful as alcohol, if you run the numbers.
I do think that therapy dogs in public are largely bullshit, but not because of the reason you state. I think they're bullshit because the dog eats shit and licks asshole, and the dog licks itself, and the person pets the dog all day, and the person touches everything. That's fucking disgusting and it creates a public health hazard. It is taking the technology of sanitation towards the dark ages. If you could just get people to wash their hands you could eliminate over a third of all disease. Instead, we in the first world are deliberately creating a class of people whose hands are perpetually unwashed.
Therapy animals are bullshit because instead of letting people spread dogshit everywhere, we should be hiring people to provide therapy. This whole tradition of enslaving an animal to provide you with happiness because people don't want to talk to other people is a load of crap.
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"
I feel like society really has it's priorities out of order. So many people are concerned for an actress while people in their own nations are homeless and getting neither proper nutrition nor appropriate medical treatment. To top it all off, they are shunned, scorned and accused of simply being lazy.
However, I understand celebrity (especially sci-fi centric celebrity) has it's appeal but if we want to talk about it, we should talk about the most likely cause: heart disease. It is the most common killer of people (in the US) and while the cause is seemingly mysterious, it's quite well known it's because of the amount of meat we consume. Meals shouldn't have more than 10% of meat but various industries have changed it so that it seems like it should be 80%. The overconsumption of meat is killing millions of people and I'm sure Carrie Fisher will become one of them soon enough.
Wake up, society! You've got it all wrong!
Actually the meat thing is a myth that has been debunked many many ways since the 1970s after the research of Ancel Keys was adopted as public health policy and nutritional guidelines based on it have skyrocketed the rate of obesity, type 2 diabetes and heart disease along with some cancers since that time. Eating excessive fats in the presence of excessive carbohydrate in the diet interrupts the body's ability to process fat in terms of stored body fat, lipoproteins in the blood (read Cholesterol) and what does not get stored or processed ends up lining the arteries causing an inflammatory process that leads to heart disease.
In short it is excessive carbs in the diet that leads to skyrocketing insulin levels and inflammation, not excessive meat consumption that leads to this problem.
Have a Happy holiday and read up on it.
'Star Wars' 'Actress' 'Carrie Fisher' 'Stable' 'After' 'In-Flight' 'Heart Attack'
So what I should take from the head line is that it was actually Star Trek actor Patrick Stewart that is unstable after getting severe burns in a car crash?
I understand they've got her physical body back into stable condition, but she likely went 10-15 minutes without oxygen to her brain. Irreversible damage starts at 4 minutes.
It would have been easier if they'd not forgotten Alec Guinness.
The people who carry around "therapy dogs" are the ones trivializing mental illness. "Oh no, I have anxiety, Snookums has to go everywhere I do!" Horseshit. It's just like the perfectly able-bodied people who wander onto the airplane before anyone else because "I need extra time". No, you don't, because I board right after that and you're already sitting down with your iPad out.
Anxiety is real if ambiguous. Depression is a bitch. Schizophrenia is a nightmare, and physical disability is a curse. But there are any number of assholes who will exploit a situation to their own advantage. Therapy dogs are such a thing.
Microsoft has killed it. Sure, label me any which way you like, but there is a huge volume of Microsoft news on here these days, compared to five years ago. Sure, not all of it is positive, and some of you may even believe that it is mostly negative. But you misunderstand advertising and market mind share if you think like that. It is actually better for Microsoft that Microsoft be discussed more frequently, even in a negative way, than for a better OS [Linux] to exist and not be discuss at all.
We all know this site accepts paid submissions. Sure, the editors will deny this until they look ridiculous, but for any seasoned readers it's extremely obvious that they exist. So, of course Microsoft has been able to buy more submissions that the FOSS team and as a result, what was once regarded as *the* place to discuss FOSS is but a shadow of what it once was.
Sure, there are lots of confounding factors, which will lead many to criticize me for this post.
None.
Zsa Zsa Gabor probably was more influential.
Can confirm. You get a doctors note saying it's a "therapy" dog or cat or xyz and it's much more likely you can bring it with you to your new rental/apartment when you move, I know a number of people who have done this.
Fuck. She has 10 strikes against her.
1) She is old
2) She is white
3) She is a racist as evidenced by the fact that she is old and all old people owned and regularly beat black slaves (according to common core curriculum)
4) She is a homophobe. Because all old white women hate gay people.
5) She is creepy as evidence by the fact that her skin in wrinkly
6) She got to her position only on the back of poor disadvantaged latino and african americans
7) She had a heart attack
8) The heart attack was directly cause by her and her unhealthy life, and her deciding to be old and white.
9) Did i mention she is white
10) She was not a lesbian. Lesbians are a disadvantaged and deserving of our support.
I am just glad we have a new gender empowered generation who live and breath diversity a can finally lay the evil that is Princess Lei to rest. We need to kill white people, but especially old white people. They have been around too long. Why should people that are going to be dead soon be allowed to vote. Voting should be done on face book and reddit by the hip community of diverse users that are going to be creating a racially diverse and vibrant community of ecologically forward thinkers who have given up on hate.
George Michael's death coming soon.
Slashdot, fix the reply notifications... You won't get away with it...
Maybe you should read more than one sentence into my post. I fucking said it takes work.
Only the State obtains its revenue by coercion. - Murray Rothbard
"Harrison Ford, Mark Hamill, C-3PO actor Anthony Daniels, Chewbacca actor Peter Mayhew, and Billy Dee Williams, as well as Star Trek actors William Shatner and George Takei" at her bedside? Are they trying to give her another heart attack?
As much as I grieve for one and hope for the recovery of the other, I don't see how they're connected.
Perhaps you'll like the following connection better
Not only does Carrie Fisher pass away on Dec 27th, just 3 days after being declared stable following her heart attack on a transatlantic flight but her mother, Debbie Reynolds, who came to fame for her role in Singin' in the Rain, suffers a stroke and dies just one day later
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
A lot of people, including a great many Slashdotters got interested in space, science & tech because of Star Wars, Star Trek and the like.
Zsa Zsa was a fanstastic contributor to advancing divorce settlements for women.
As she remarked, "I'm a great housekeeper. When I leave a husband, I keep his house"
Pain is merely failure leaving the body
I'm waiting to hear about when a passenger with a therapy dog sits next to an asthmatic that suffers allergic reactions to dog.
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