Carrie Fisher stable but being treated in intensive care unit

[RandySF]

Personal Note: I have to caution that it sounds like the kind of massive heart attack that killed my mom. I didn't kill her right away but it caused so much damage to her body that it eventually shut down. positive vibes form someone who's been a Fisher man since I was seven years old.



Carrie Fisher is being treated in an intensive care unit after a serious medical emergency on a flight, according to her brother.

On Friday night, Todd Fisher told The Associated Press that his sister was receiving excellent care, but said that he could not classify her condition. He had earlier told the AP that she had been stabilized and was out of the emergency room.

In a subsequent interview, he said many details about her condition or what caused the medical emergency are unknown, and much of what had been reported was speculation.

"We have to wait and be patient," he said. "We have so little information ourselves."

TMZ and the Los Angeles Times reported that the actress, best known for playing Princess Leia in the Star Wars film franchise, was on a flight from London to Los Angeles when she went into cardiac arrest. TMZ reports that the emergency occurred about 15 minutes before landing, and an EMT on the plane administered CPR before landing. The plane arrived just after noon PT and Fisher, 60, was rushed by paramedics to the UCLA Medical Center.


http://www.pnj.com/story/life/people/2016/12/23/carrie-fisher-heart-attack/95806310/

[Hekate]

1. All the best to her and the Fisher family

[renate]

2. thank goodness it happened so close to LA

It would have been extra terrible if they'd been over the Atlantic when it happened.

[rumdude]

3. Christ Almighty - what a hyperventilating post

I'm glad I live in Montana, where we don't care so much for celebs.

[UTUSN]

5. She's not a celeb. She's loved. & so is Gary.

But thx for caring. How many Electoral votes ya got?

[nolabear]

14. What a cruel and unnecessary thing to say.

[rumdude]

15. What?

It was neither. However, I do think it was brutish and inevitable.

[Skittles]

23. yes

they seem to care more about white supremecy

[Maru Kitteh]

30. If you feel the need to say jerky things; leave Montana OUT of it.

My beautiful state has nothing to do with how you choose to behave.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. Something doesn't add up.

If her condition was as bad as initially reported then the quotes from the brother are either inaccurate or something is getting lost in translation here.

He's quoted as saying she is stable and "out of the emergency room" ... but she is in intensive care. Some reports say she is on a ventilator.

Reading between the lines of what the brother says still doesn't sound good.

Hoping I'm very wrong.

[yeoman6987]

6. It all depends on how long she wasn't breathing between ambulance and hospital

They never said cpr was successful. That is scary. I wish her well but I think it's a tough situation for the family at Christmas no less.

[RandySF]

7. I think he misspoke, understandable given the situation.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

9. Agreed.

Hoping for the best.

[Ilsa]

8. I think you nailed it, but it is possible the early assessments of bystanders were

In error. (Let's hope.) And flying more than two hours can trigger blood clots in some people. But if they were correct, then she'll be in ICU until they have run multiple brain function studies. This could take time. I'm glad they were able to get her out of the Emergency Dept.

I hope and pray she recovers well from this.

[UTUSN]

10. I want to thank her for saying/publically that DRUMPF's nose *snorting* is likely abuse,

that her personal experience is authoritative evidence/witnessing.

[mopinko]

11. sounds like my FIL, too

they fought like hell to revive him, even tho they knew he was out of the sweet spot to revive him. they got his heart going, had him on a ventilator, but his eeg was all over the place.
they made us wait several days to pull the plug while their did THEIR requisite number of tests.

and as someone else mentioned, people to get blood clots on those long flights. happened to a friend of mine. they didnt catch it right away, and he ended up pretty sick. but at least it didnt hit his heart.

[TexasBushwhacker]

13. And sometimes they're just giving loved ones time

to come to her bedside and say their goodbyes. I've yet to see any actual reports that she is on a ventilator. It's more "I heard..." without any actual back up. Besides, I doubt her brother would share that info.

Of course, an "unnamed source" may tell TMZ and you'd better believe they'll run with it. I've been keeping up with her status from articles in the LA Times and AP.

[mopinko]

19. this is true.

i volunteer for hospice, and sometimes that is what we are there for.
attached to a big hospital, and they sometimes will bring them over to the unit for that reason.

[RandySF]

17. They stabilized mom and she seemed to making a comeback for a few days

but the overall damage to her body was so great that basically crashed.

[mopinko]

18. yeah, that likely would have happened.

his mom was reluctant to disagree w doctors, as she had worked in hospitals most of her life.
but the ex was just furious about the whole thing.

[nycbos]

12. May the force be with her.

[applegrove]

16. Vibes. I loved Postcards from the Edge. Great movie.

[Gothmog]

20. May the Force be with her

[Vinca]

21. It's eerie that the last question in her interview in the current Rolling Stone magazine was

about whether she was afraid of dying. She said she wasn't, except for the pain that might happen. I hope she survives, but if she doesn't she won't have experienced the endless pain she was afraid of.

[backscatter712]

22. Here's hoping...

If the flight crew and other people giving CPR and other emergency aid to her were quick, and their CPR technique was good, she may have a chance. I suppose the only thing to do is wait, see if her brain comes back online.

[QED]

24. Her mom, Debbie Reynolds, posted on facebook

My daughter, Carrie Fisher, is in stable condition.
If there is any change, the family will share the information at that time. To all her friends and fans, I thank you all for your prayers and good wishes.


https://www.facebook.com/thedebbiereynolds/?hc_ref=SEARCH&fref=nf

[TexasBushwhacker]

25. Debbie is frail herself

She lives next door to Carrie in Beverly Hills.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

26. I am so sorry about this, and I hope she fully recovers,

but it doesn't really seem promising.

And at the risk of being vilified here, she's a smoker. Why the hell anyone continues to smoke in this day and age when we understand how truly terrible it is, what damage it does, is beyond me.

I have a sister who started smoking at age 13. At age 42 she had a serious heart attack, nearly died, and resumed smoking. WTF?? And of course smokers all get incredibly defensive when confronted by this, and it's so frustrating, so discouraging for their friends and relatives. She is still with us, at age 69, and it's possible she has finally, finally, stopped entirely, but I don't know.

I sincerely hope Fisher recovers, and I further sincerely hope she never smokes another cigarette again.

[LeftInTX]

27. I heard her on NPR a few weeks ago, I couldn't believe her voice

I'm the same age as Carrie. It is obvious she not only smokes, but is a heavy smoker.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

29. I was simply looking at pictures of her on line,

after what happened the other day, and suddenly it occurred to me, THAT'S the face of a smoker. So I googled Carrie Fisher smoking and lots and lots of pics of her showed up. And yes, the voice of a smoker is incredibly obvious.

And I guess, since I've never smoked, I just don't get the sweet, seductive addiction, but it just angers me that anyone took up smoking after the 1964 Surgeon General's report.

And what's even more frustrating is the extent to which smokers are in total denial.

I read The Cancer Chronicles by George Johnson recently, and I highly recommend it. The essential point I want to make is that not only has cancer been with us pretty much forever (dinosaurs got cancer) and with rates largely unchanged for millennia, the ONLY thing that matters in whether or not you'll get cancer is smoking. Every other supposed risk (other than certain genetic factors, and even they aren't all that strong) is trivial.

Smoking also hugely impacts heart disease. Well duh.

[cwydro]

31. Dinosaurs got cancer?

Who knew?

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

32. Yep.

People who think cancer is simply a disease of modern civilization are entirely mistaken.

[cwydro]

33. Lol, and I see it was not the meat-eating ones.

Just the one group of herbivores.

Fascinating.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

34. Keep in mind that cancers that can show up in bones,

not to mentioned fossilized bones, are quite rare overall. And the fact that fossilization is itself unusual. Chances are they got other cancers also, but we haven't yet seen the clear evidence of that.

[cwydro]

36. Yes, but it appears to be only the duck-billed dinosaurs.

They were herbivores. (There's a poem there somewhere lol.)

Fascinating stuff. Thanks for opening my eyes to it.

[backscatter712]

28. It's called addiction.

Smoking feels good, because of that sweet, sweet nicotine, so stopping is hard. Even when it's killing you.

[HoneyBadger]

35. Makes me think of my uncle

I flew across the country to say goodbye. His sisters were praying 24x7. They were nice older women, but uneducated. My cousins, dentists, and doctors, told me he is dead, there is nothing left, that is how we talk, but they could not say that to their moms.