<p><a href=“Joan Rivers dead at 81 - CBS News”>http://www.cbsnews.com/news/joan-rivers-dead-at-81/</a></p>
<p>Not unexpected but so sad. I really liked Joan Rivers. I feel badly for Melissa and Joan’s grandson, Cooper. </p>
<p>I had a feeling she wasn’t going to make it when they moved her out of ICU. What a long career she had. She was always reinventing herself.</p>
<p>So sad… </p>
<p>Did she have a minor surgery? I didn’t get the correct information from the news. I think it said routine.</p>
<p>Very sad. She was quite a pioneer. I read a comment from a medical professional that no 81 year old should have this kind of procedure done outside of a hospital. What were these doctors thinking?</p>
<p>Very very sad. We had occasion to work with her for several years and she was a genuinely nice and warm person. She was one of the hardest working people in show business, never coasting at all. What a shame, to have a minor procedure go so wrong. :(</p>
<p>I admired her for so many years. What a powerhouse working this hard at her age. She truly paved the way for the female comediennes who came after. And…I’m going to miss fashion police too. :(</p>
<p>I think, 30 years younger than she, that I was too young for her sense of humor. But I appreciate how she helped unlock the doors for other female comedians.</p>
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FWIW, I’m 65 years younger than Joan and I thought she was hilarious. Heaven just got a little funnier. RIP Joan. My thoughts are with Melissa and Cooper.</p>
<p>Loved her sense of humor. RIP.</p>
<p>Very, very sad sad. I also had the feeling it was going to come to this. :(</p>
<p>Joan was one of my favorites and just last year she adopted a dog from my rescue group. Had the dog and foster mom flown from CA to NY and picked them up in a limo in Newark from where they all went back to her NYC apartment with her. They said she was lovely and so gracious. </p>
<p>I will also miss her on Fashion Police and Joan & Melissa. </p>
<p>This is really sad. To be honest, I am kind of shocked. I briefly heard that she was being moved out of the ICU, and I assumed that meant that she had improved.</p>
<p>I enjoyed her decades ago on Johnny Carson. The time slips away. </p>
<p>A friend of mine used to date Melissa. One day Joan Rivers picked her up at my friend’s house. Apparently he and the clothes he’d been wearing figured prominently in her monologue the next week. He was really annoyed and all the more so because it was hilarious and very true. So funny. RIP. </p>
<p>I’m surprised at how sad I feel. I’ve always liked her, but don’t think about her much. I happened to catch her on one of those runway fashion shows when I was at the gym last week, before her procedure. She seemed to be in great health for 81.</p>
<p>One of my guilty pleasures is watching Fashion Police after the various awards shows. She will be missed. RIP Joan. </p>
<p>Just add me to the list of those who’ll miss her.</p>
<p>In some ways, I am glad for her that she went without much pain (I assume) and relatively quickly, rather than with a long, slow decline. She was working in her field to an advanced age, I assume because she loved it, and then the end while she was still going.
I too wonder about the appropriateness of the procedure and its setting, though.</p>
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<p>We often do procedures with elderly patients at our non-hospital center IF they meet certain criteria, which are established anesthesia criteria standard within the profession. There is not necessarily anything suspicious about her having a procedure outside of the hospital. I don’t know what procedure she had, though. I’d read it was an endoscopy, and other reports that it was “throat surgery.”</p>
<p>If the center did not practice according to established standards and protocols, if they did not anticipate the typical problems and have strategies in place to prevent them, if they did not recognize problems early, or did not respond to them properly, that’s a whole other story. I’m sure this will be looked into.</p>