John Thomas8 wrote: ↑Tue Oct 10, 2023 10:01 pm
Sadly, 50 years of hockey has to retire due to Parkinson's:
Former NHL coach and player Barry Melrose, who has been an Emmy Award-winning hockey analyst for ESPN since 1996, has been diagnosed with Parkinson's disease and is retiring, he announced Tuesday.
"I've had over 50 extraordinary years playing, coaching and analyzing the world's greatest game, hockey. It's now time to hang up my skates and focus on my health, my family, including my supportive wife Cindy, and whatever comes next," Melrose, 67, said in a statement.
Mary Lou Retton, the retired gymnast and Olympics legend, has pneumonia and is “fighting for her life” in an intensive care unit, her daughter said on Tuesday. Retton has been hospitalized for more than a week with what her daughter, McKenna Lane Kelley, called “a very rare form” of the disease. She “is not able to breathe on her own,” Kelley said.
Kelley, a former gymnast at Louisiana State University, shared few other specific details about her mother’s condition in a statement to her Instagram Story on Tuesday. “Out of respect for her and her privacy, I will not disclose all details,” she wrote. “However, I will disclose that she [is] not insured.”
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Posted: Wed Oct 11, 2023 12:43 am
by raison de arizona
Worth quoting the next paragraph.
On a fundraising page set up to help with her mother’s medical expenses, Kelley asked for prayers, adding, “ANYTHING, absolutely anything, would be so helpful for my family and my mom.”
People have been very generous. The hospital will take every penny of that for someone in ICU on a ventilator. Yes, messed up.
Edited to add: Someone went in and just gave her $50,000.
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2023 3:28 pm
by Kendra
CNN reporting that Rosalynn Carter has entered hospice care at home.
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2023 3:55 pm
by chancery
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2023 5:14 pm
by AndyinPA
It's sad, but now she and Jimmy will be allowed to live out their lives in peace together, with no unwanted or invasive medical interference.
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2023 5:41 pm
by RVInit
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2023 5:48 pm
by Lani
The Carter and Obama families are the best, loving families that we ever had in the White House.
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2023 5:49 pm
by p0rtia
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2023 6:57 pm
by Kendra
AndyinPA wrote: ↑Fri Nov 17, 2023 5:14 pm
It's sad, but now she and Jimmy will be allowed to live out their lives in peace together, with no unwanted or invasive medical interference.
Yes.
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Posted: Fri Nov 17, 2023 9:39 pm
by Phoenix520
raison de arizona wrote: ↑Wed Oct 11, 2023 12:43 am
Worth quoting the next paragraph.
On a fundraising page set up to help with her mother’s medical expenses, Kelley asked for prayers, adding, “ANYTHING, absolutely anything, would be so helpful for my family and my mom.”
Stephen Colbert is calling in sick this week from his “Late Show” hosting duties.
Colbert announced on Threads Monday that he has to cancel this week’s previously scheduled new episodes of “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” as he recovers from surgery.
“Sorry to say that I have to cancel our shows this week. I’m sure you’re thinking, “Turkey overdose, Steve? Gravy boat capsize?” Actually, I’m recovering from surgery for a ruptured appendix,” he wrote.
Colbert added that he’s “grateful” for his doctor’s care, and extended his gratitude to his wife Evie McGee-Colbert and their kids for “putting up” with him.
“Going forward, all emails to my appendix will be handled by my pancreas,” he joked at the end of his statement.
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Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2023 5:14 pm
by AndyinPA
Ouch. Best wishes.
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Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2023 5:39 pm
by pipistrelle
That can be bad (sepsis). Ouch indeed.
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Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2023 6:12 pm
by Slim Cognito
Oh my, yes, that can be very, very bad. Before advanced surgical procedures, a burst appendix was a death sentence. He must have a high tolerance for pain to have made it all the way to the appendix bursting. Most people head to the ER before it gets to that point.
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Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2023 11:11 pm
by neonzx
Blah blah one week he can't work because Covid and another then because his appendix exploded.
The excuses are getting old.
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Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2023 10:21 pm
by MN-Skeptic
Stephen Colbert is also taking this week off to rest and heal. I guess I’m not surprised. Burst appendixes are not good things.
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Posted: Mon Dec 04, 2023 11:08 pm
by neonzx
darn it, I forgot to put the /s tag on the end of my Colbert comment.
Here /s
It means SNARK. Of course I love Stephen till death do us part.. Oh wait, he is not gay nor gay-ish so skip that part.
They’ve raised nearly half a million! With a $50,000 goal 
Blah blah 
one week he can't work because Covid and another then because his appendix exploded.