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'Star Wars' Actress Carrie Fisher 'Stable' After In-Flight Heart Attack (abc7news.com)

Posted by EditorDavid on from the may-the-force-be-with-her dept.

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.

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  1. only 2 days late! by Joe_Dragon · · Score: 2, Informative

    only 2 days late!

    1. Re:only 2 days late! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Insightful

      We're on a geek-oriented tech/fandom/culture blog. I don't know what you were expecting, but you're clearly in the wrong place.

    2. Re:only 2 days late! by sjames · · Score: 2

      The one where you were apparently interested enough in TFA to click the link...

    3. Re:only 2 days late! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful

      You speak as though Slashdot is reporting that Ms. Fisher broke up with her beau or entered fucking treatment for substance abuse. The woman suffered a heart attack and is a star of a story popular with many who read this site - like it or not.

      If I adopted your position, I'd bitch every time someone posts an article about anything by Orson Scott Card and say, "He writes shitty science fiction, what does that have to do with geeks?" Except not everyone agrees with my position - so I don't.

    4. Re:only 2 days late! by sjames · · Score: 3, Insightful

      And yet here you are talking about it. Nobody made you spend your time in this discussion. You could have just looked at the next story but here you are.

  2. Summary is always wrong by physicsphairy · · Score: 4, Funny

    !Best-known for playing Princess Leia

    What do you mean she's not best known for this???

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    1. Re:Summary is always wrong by arth1 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Among the /. crowd, I'd think she'd be better known for her crazy ex role in Blues Brothers. Much more nerdy.

    2. Re:Summary is always wrong by ClickOnThis · · Score: 3, Informative

      Meanwhile, the real C-3PO (actor Anthony Daniels) had this to say:

      At last I know what I want for Christmas. The galaxy's beloved Princess, fully functional once more. And soon.

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  3. Re:I get that.. by MightyMartian · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  4. Re:Carrie Fisher has a therapy dog by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's a way for people to take pets where pets are not normally allowed.

  5. Re:Carrie Fisher has a therapy dog by ClickOnThis · · Score: 4, Funny

    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.

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  6. Too soon? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Help me C3PR, you're my only hope!

  7. Re:Grim Reaper misses one, picks off another by ClickOnThis · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  8. Re:Carrie Fisher has a therapy dog by ClickOnThis · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

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  9. Re: Carrie Fisher has a therapy dog by pslytely+psycho · · Score: 5, Informative

    "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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  10. Sadly not necessarily that 'stable' by Athanasius · · Score: 3, Informative

    I was looking for an update yesterday and found https://www.theguardian.com/cu...

    From her brother:

    But he later clarified his comments. “It’s not fair to say ‘stable’. I am not saying she is fine, or not fine,” he told Reuters by telephone. “She is in the ICU.” But in a subsequent interview he said many details about her condition or what caused the medical emergency are unknown.

  11. Re:Carrie Fisher has a therapy dog by jellomizer · · Score: 2

    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.

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