Posted on 12/20/2010 10:19:32 PM PST by neverdem
Holbrook would still be alive if he had retired and tended his garden and orchids. But he was unable to do this. I’ll bet his wife told him to slow down but his massive ego demanded that he stay with his diplomatic missions. In Yugoslavia he helped Muslims take over Kosovo. So he was dynamic and kicked up a lot of dust traveling around on diplomacy..... But to what avail? Only an idiot helps Muslims expand their territories.
I have regular echoes because I was on Adriamycin, I am lucky there was no heart damage at all. Also luckily there is no heart disease in my family, I have low BP and a tota cholestorol of 130 with low tryglycerides.
Since he was a frequent flyer I suspect he was on blood thinners which impeded the normal clotting that would have been necessary following the first operation.
Didnt’ this take Princess Diana’s life as well?
Holbrooke was married to Peter Jennings ex wife.
John Ritter’s dad Tex Ritter died from a “heart attack” in 1973, but some docs wonder if he died of the ruptured aorta.IIRC, Ritter’s brother got himself checked for this after John’s death.
A flap and a “false channel” can form inside the aorta and impede blood flow."
I had this happen to me but in my carotid artery about 6 years ago. It was spontaneous and I never had a stroke, just a migraine headache for a couple of days prior along with pulsatile tinnitus (heard my pulse in my ear, loud and continuous, couldn't sleep because of it).
The doctors put me on Plavix for 6 months and it healed on its own. My grandfather had an abdominal aortic aneurysm and I have mild hypertension (not on meds yet), but otherwise no explanation was given for it. I did have a really weird and intense cold 2 weeks prior, which the docs found interesting as there does seem to be some relationship between viruses and spontaneous carotid artery dissections.
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I don’t recall that she wasn’t shot with five (extremely nasty) hollow-point bullets.
Those things are so bad that the military doesn’t even use them.
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They’re talking about how a tiny tear, too small to do any harm by itself, can grow into a big one.
Just googled in Princess Diana and it says she suffered a torn aorta in the auto crash.
Ouch. I thought that maybe she died of cervical dislocation or some other blunt-force injury.
My grandfather had an aortic aneurysm. They were able to repair it with a then-revolutionary new material called Dacron. Twelve years later, it failed, and there was not enough strong tissue left for another repair.
The patch held for twelve years, which may not be a great record, but it meant the world to me. Pop-Pop died when I was eleven.
I assume they knew it was there, and that it didn’t break. Once that happens, it is touch and go, and usually go. Glad you got to know the man.
Goes with what I said earlier, acute due to chest trauma.
Sorry for your loss, but glad you got to spend another 12 years with your Pop-Pop. My grandfather had the same procedure.
Thanks for sharing this.
My mother died of a dissecting aorta, and she had been very ill previously with some virus that swelled her lymph glands.
Mum told the chief surgeon..."are you the surgeon...you are such a nice young man....but I passed my shelf life...you're not going to muck me about!
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