almost made me cry. :((
Still hoping she proves the odds wrong and pulls through.
@teriwtt I was not emotionally prepared for that.
Hmmm… link isn’t working. Let me try something else.
Google: Carrie Fisher’s Dog ‘Tweets’ Heartbreaking Photo: ‘I’ll Be Waiting Right Here Mommy’
If you copy and paste the link, it works.
I have been a Star Wars fan since before I was born (or at least that’s the running joke since my dad has been a devout fan since the first film.) I was Princess Leia more than once for Halloween. My hair has always been SUPER long so I was able to more or less replicate the buns 
I hope she pulls through. Too young, too young…
I have seen some of the stuff she has done about her life on HBO, it was both sad and really funny. I remember her guest starring on this program that quite frankly I forget the show itself, but she played this crazy investigative reporter who encouraged a character from the show to go rogue with her, how they will show the media just what it means to do reporting, it was really funny.
Last I read there really isn’t much word on how she is doing, her brother said that his earlier statements about her being out of ICU and stable were wrong. From the description, it sound like she had full cardiac arrest and was maintained via CPR for almost 15 minutes before they landed and were met by paramedics. While it is not common for CPR to get people’s hearts restarted and the person breathing on their own (that is about 15% of cases, mostly kids), that length of CPR as others have posted is troubling, CPR was never designed for long term support so it could mean she has significant damage (obviously, I hope I am wrong about that).
Sad that someone so young should get hit by something like this. Given her back story of drug use and abusing her body it isn’t so surprising, but it still is jarring when this happens.
I did copy and paste, but for some reason when you hover your cursor over the part after ‘Fisher’, it doesn’t highlight the entire link; it only takes you to the MSN Entertainment home page, not the specific story.
But on the other hand I think we can all come up with a list of a lot of celebrities that abused their bodies as much as she did, and are older and still alive and kicking today. You just never know.
^ Keith Richards.
Oh that’s weird, teriwtt. It worked for me. Here try this if anyone needs to: http://www.usmagazine.com/celebrity-news/news/carrie-fishers-dog-tweets-sweet-photo-after-heart-attack-w457733
@teriwtt:
No, you don’t know, but it would be a lot more shocking (at least to me) if someone who took care of themselves, didn’t drink heavily, smoke, do drugs, etc had a massive cardiac arrest at 60 then someone who had done all those things and did. Keith Richards on the other hand is shocking that he hasn’t succumbed before now, given his past:). It certainly isn’t judgement on my part, knowing her story and what she faced in her life, all I can say is that sometimes the bravest person in the world is someone who gets out of bed every day knowing the demons they are dealing with and does their best to fight it.
Musicprnt, I survived 10-12 minutes of CPR after my full cardiac arrest. Was at home and my then-20 yo son did it til the EMTs arrived. The docs probably have her in a protective induced hypothermic coma and won’t know much until they pull her out.
One of the articles I read stated she had lost weight and really focused on her health over the past few years. That’s rather frightening - you get your act together, lose weight and focus on your health - and then you have a heart attack? Makes me feel doomed.
What I’ve read suggests that’s not the case. What I read said she lost a lot of weight quickly because the studio said she couldn’t be part of the new movie unless she got down to x weight by Y date. She wanted the money and wanted the job for other reasons…so she crash dieted to meet the deadline. I–obviously—have no idea if the tabloids are right, but they are saying that the rapid dieting may have been one of the causes of a heart attack.
Tabloids are probably onto something… Crash diets are not good for the heart.
@rockvillemom - when I used to work in hospice, it wasn’t uncommon for patients to express regret for having made healthy life-style choices, only to have whatever disease it was they were trying to avoid, catch up with them; it was common in smokers with cancer particularly, as well as people who had cardiac disease due to poor health habits. My own dad told us, after he’d been diagnosed with incurable lung cancer, “Look at what good it did me to give up smoking.” What I always told these people, though, was you never know how much more time you got on this earth due to the healthy changes you DID make, even if they were made later in life. My dad wasn’t diagnosed with lung cancer until 10+ years after he quit smoking. If he hadn’t quit, he might have had some other type of cancer develop, too. So we can’t go about our lives fearing the healthy choices we make, make no difference.
Interesting that you read she’d been focusing on her health the last few years, while @jonri reports it was crash dieting that she engaged in recently for professional reasons. Maybe it was both.
If she indeed was on a crash diet (as many movie stars choose to do to “fit” into a particular role), that was definitely not good.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/04/20/crash.diets.harm.health/
Hoping for the best here… but my optimism is thin.
From what I read - two seperate periods of weight loss - one involved Jenny Craig - I think she might have been a spokeperson - she lost around 50 pounds around 2011 - and then a crash diet to lose 35 pounds for the film role last year. Obviously we have no way of knowing if either her once heavy weight or her weight loss caused this, I was just noting the irony. She also had a previous history of drug use. It’s just very sad, because she seemed like at age 60 - she was in a good place in her life - physically and mentally.
Are you in “stable” condition if you are being kept alive on a ventilator? I lost a very dear friend to a massive heart attack last summer and I just struggle with the concept that someone seems fine one day and then has a heart attack the following day. It seems so random - and then all the second guessing starts - what the person weighed, ate, drank, etc.
My mom was all but gone and they told us she was stable. Sure, if being on a ventilator is stable. Sometimes they do that to get family there, or to run tests and see if it’s possible to survive or not. I hope I’m wrong, I don’t feel good about it. I loved her character in Harry Met Sally as well - we quote her often.
Now George Michael of some kind of heart issue. Seems bad heart issues are what’s killing the celebs right now - all 4 - Florence Henderson, Alan Thicke, her and George Michael all had heart issues.
I lost 45 lbs in the 15 months before my heart attack. Was also on a ventilator for the first week afterwards. No drug/abuse, rarely used alcohol, never smoked, cholesterol was 130. Started losing weight when my glucose levels were heading toward pre-diabetes. Also had PCOS, which we now know can be a contributing factor in metabolic syndrome. I’ll get on my bully pulpit about women’s heart issues looking different from men’s, and how that leads to a higher death rate for women – by the time they are diagnosed or have an event, they tend to be in worse shape than men.
Some of these folks’ situations may be related to family history which we know nothing about.
It’s all a good reminder to take nothing for granted.