It was reported that Carrie Fisher had a massive heart attack right before landing at LAX from London. She is in critical condition. So sad.
I saw that. 
2016… stick a fork in me. No more bad news allowed.
She is so young–only 60! She’s had some tough times that she’s shared to help others.
2016 can suck it. Sure hope 2017 is brighter.
The article I read said she was not breathing for 10 minutes while receiving CPR. That’s pretty ominous. The survival rate of cardiac arrest “in the field” is dismally low, even with immediate CPR. I don’t feel very optimistic about her odds of recovery. Very sad.
Yeah, this one hits me hard. Sounds eerily similar to my experience. She had medical professionals treating her on the plane, so immediate CPR can protect someone from serious brain damage. The other protocol once a patient is stabilized is to put her in a hypothermic coma to protect the brain. The odds of surviving a full arrest are long, but not impossible.
Her brother says she’s stabilized:
True, and I hope she defies the odds. And that she hasn’t suffered brain damage.
I loved her in When Harry Met Sally.
Marie: “I don’t think he’s going to leave her.”
Sally: " Nobody thinks he’s ever going to leave her."
Marie: “You’re right. I know you’re right.”
Classic!
And this one:
Marie: “I want you to know…I will never want that wagon wheel coffee table.”
So sad. I felt sick when I read it – both because 2016 has been so dismal so far, and because she’s right around my age. And I always really liked her, from the time Star Wars came out almost 40 years ago – she was a short Jewish woman with dark hair who was a movie star!
Thoughts are with her and with her mom and daughter, Debbie and Billie, and her siblings.
I saw her once out shopping with her little dog in her purse. I also saw Alan Thicke in a restaurant once. I hope she makes it.
She is an incredibly bright and funny person. I hope she makes it and is not significantly impaired, although the chances do not sound good.
According to her brother, she has just been stabilized.
Sounds like they may have put in a stent(s) to open a blockage. That kind of sudden cardiac arrest may be a clot on her lateral anterior descending artery – the widowmaker. It’s good that the docs were able to stabilize her.
I saw her in her one woman show a few years ago…it was fabulous.
I hope she beats the odds on this one.
I’m in her age bracket and hear about so many people dying at this age unexpectantly or developing an illness. Mostly cancer. I understand that I really have to appreciate and live each day to its fullest as if it’s the last. But living as if today may be your last isn’t easy. Living today as if you are going to last forever is often the route I end up taking.
No new updates. Poor Carrie, Poor Debbie Reynolds. I read that she was at Zsa Zsa Gabor’s funeral today.
Being stabilized doesn’t necessarily offer much hope if she was indeed unresponsive for that long. She could be on all kinds of support that is keeping her heart ticking and lungs going, as well as other organ support, without any real possibility of staying alive once life support is removed.
This would be a blow for sure. She has represented and modeled such courage and determination to those with mental health issues by being so open and outspoken, that it would be devastating to see her die so young. If this is her time to go, I do hope she’s been at peace with her life.
About a month ago, after a string of celebrity deaths, I started to wonder which ones would come next, and if there are any that would devastate me as much as Robin Williams’ death did. I almost started a thread about which celebrities we know aren’t going to be around for forever, yet we feel would be a major loss to a wide population who have been following their careers for decades. I honestly think Carrie Fisher could be more difficult for me than Florence Henderson and Alan Thicke. I really, really hope I’m wrong about her odds.
I just saw that she and her mom made a documentary about their relationship, which was shown at Cannes this year, titled, Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds. It will air on HBO in 2017.
Haven’t a clue how one goes about that, to be honest. The best I can do is be as nice as possible to everyone and not let the small stuff get to me. I guess that’s a start.
How extraordinary is Carrie Fisher’s bio! Even though she’s so young, you can’t say she hasn’t lived a full and complex life–daughter of two of the biggest celebrities of the time, one of whom abandoned his family to pursue and eventually marry someone who may have been the ultimate celebrity of the time; star of a classic movie; wife of one-half of perhaps the biggest singing duo of all time; sufferer of bi-polar disorder; abuser of drugs and alcohol, long-time partner of a man who left her when he realized he was gay, author, screenwriter, actress. Yikes! I most recently enjoyed her small but memorable recurring role in the series “Catastrophe” (which I highly recommend). Hoping for the best for her, but anticipating the worst.