http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090317/...sha_richardson
Anyone know what happened??
Sounds pretty bad.........
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090317/...sha_richardson
Anyone know what happened??
Sounds pretty bad.........
From the New York Times:
Lyne Lortie, a spokeswoman for the Mont Tremblant ski resort in the Laurentian Hills north of Montreal, said Ms. Richardson had fallen during a beginner’s lesson. She was not wearing a helmet at the time, she said.
“It was a normal fall; she didn’t hit anyone or anything,” Ms. Lortie said. “She didn’t show any signs of injury, she was talking and she seemed all right.”
As a precaution, Ms. Richardson was accompanied by a member of the resort’s ski patrol and her instructor, who then remained with her at a hotel.
When Ms. Richardson, 45, began experiencing headaches about an hour later, she was taken by ambulance to a hospital in Ste. Agathe, Quebec about 20 minutes from the resort. Ms. Lortie said that Ms. Richardson was transferred to the Hôpital du Sacré-Coeur de Montréal later in the afternoon.
Ms. Lortie said that the resort has no knowledge about Ms. Richardson’s injuries.
Freaky. I guess, based on the situation, there were no maggot eye witnesses.
Wish her a full recovery.
"She was not wearing a helmet"....
You only need to have a helmet work once for it to be the right choice. Wear a helmet.
She actually passed away from what I read. RIP if true. Freaky, fluke shit.
Some reports were saying brain dead, now a couple are saying shes not even brain dead.Quote:
Originally Posted by Crystal_Mt_Dreamin
Most are saying brain dead and will die.
Freaky.
Patrol tells her to go the hospital and she proceeds to sit on her a$$ at the hotel for the next hour, WTF?
Must be a slow bleed from the fall, hope she pulls through.
Something doesn't add up, at least to me. Normal fall? What is that? Ski Patrol and Instructor accompanied her back to her room? Why do that for a normal fall? Seems odd. It must have been more than just a "normal" fall.
A flat place late in the season might = hard as a rock. Bounced her head me thinks. We have all seen places where the snow has turned to cement.
If that isn't what happened.... then this is very hard to explain...perhaps a pre-existing condition?
It was reported early this morning that she yacked a tree. That would explain the head injury.
Noooo! not the lady from the parent trap =( I like her.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/03172009...ead_160027.htm
New York Post reports....Brain Dead. Unreal.
TMZ says medically induced coma. I'm actually more inclined to trust the celeb gossip websites for shit like this. Weird to be sure.
Vibes to Liam Neeson, even though "Taken" was a total piece of crap.
This afternoon on CBC I heard an initial report of the critical injury and changing of hospital. Then at the end the newscaster gave the old 'this just in' and stated reports now say the injuries aren't very serious.
http://www.cbc.ca/gfx/images/news/ph...n-cp-64221.jpg
The medical condition of actress Natasha Richardson — who fell Monday during a ski lesson at a Quebec resort — was being described Tuesday as anywhere from minor to life-threatening.
Friends of the British actress said she was "brain dead," according to the New York Post.
Early reports from People.com and IrishCentral.com said Richardson — a member of an esteemed British acting dynasty — suffered a serious head injury. Some Hollywood "insider" websites suggest Richardson has swelling of the brain.
Meanwhile, a spokeswoman for the Mont Tremblant ski resort said Richardson suffered what initially appeared to be a relatively unspectacular fall.
Montreal's Sacré-Coeur hospital confirmed that Richardson had left the facility on Tuesday, but a hospital spokeswoman declined to comment on the extent of her injuries or where she was transferred.
A person close to the family later confirmed that the actress is now in New York City, according to the Associated Press. That person offered no further details.
A family representative will release a statement Wednesday, the hospital spokeswoman said.
According to online reports, Richardson, 45, was transferred via private jet to New York, with her husband, actor Liam Neeson, by her side.
Fall occurred on beginner's trail
Lyne Lortie of the Mont Tremblant ski resort said Richardson was conscious and showed no signs of a serious head injury after she fell on a beginner run on Monday while in the company of an experienced instructor.
Though the actress had not been wearing a helmet, she fell "right in the middle of the trail. She didn't hit anyone or anything. It was a normal fall that you would expect from a ski lesson," Lortie told CBC News.
"She showed no injuries. She was talking. She seemed all right. But [the ski patrol] have to follow strict procedures so they brought her back to the bottom of the slope."
Lortie added that Monday was a "beautiful sunny day" in Mont Tremblant and that the slope "wasn't icy at all."
The patrol accompanied Richardson and her instructor to her hotel room, where the actress was advised to see a doctor. Later, Richardson reported feeling unwell and an ambulance was called.
The actress was first taken to the Centre Hospitalier Laurentien in Ste-Agathe and later transferred to Sacré-Coeur hospital in Montreal, the ski resort said.
Neeson rushed from set to be with wife
Neeson, who had been in Toronto filming the Atom Egoyan movie Chloe on Monday, immediately left the Toronto set upon receiving news of his wife's accident.
The couple's two pre-teen sons, Michael and Daniel, are reportedly in New York although one media report said the elder son, Michael, was with his mother at Mont Tremblant.
"We know that she has had an accident, but we really do not know any more details," actress Kika Markham, Richardson's aunt, told BBC Arts correspondent Rebecca Jones in London earlier Tuesday.
"We are very concerned," said Markham, who is married to Richardson's uncle, Corin Redgrave.
Hails from prominent theatre family
Richardson is the elder daughter of Oscar-winning actress Vanessa Redgrave and the late director Tony Richardson.
As well as her uncle Corin and aunt Kika, her aunt Lynne Redgrave and sister Joely Richardson are actors. So were her maternal grandparents, Sir Michael Redgrave and Rachel Kempson.
Richardson's film credits include The Handmaid's Tale, Gothic, A Month in the Country, Nell — in which she appeared with Neeson — The Parent Trap and Maid in Manhattan.
Trained at London's Central School of Speech and Drama, Richardson is also an acclaimed stage actress both on the West End and Broadway, where she won a Tony Award in 1998 for playing Sally Bowles in Cabaret.
In January, Richardson and her mother played the roles of mother and daughter in a one-night benefit concert version of A Little Night Music, the Stephen Sondheim-Hugh Wheeler musical, in New York. They are also set to star in an coming revival of the production.
Richardson married Neeson in 1994.
Isn't it a bad idea for someone with a brain injury to fly ? Pressure changes in the cabin could make things worse ?
^^^ I completely disagree. You don't have to be hauling ass to wack your head really hard. I've taken come classic icy parking lot/ski boots on/skis on shoulder diggers. And how many truly beginner snowboarders get taken off the mountain with concussions from catching heelside edges going 1mph??? head injuries are fucked up... It seems like sometimes you don't have to fall that hard, but just hit it some weird way that flips the switch and knocks you out, or worse.
I've not paid attention on cat tracks, fallen, and wacked myself in the back of the helmet with one of my skis. left an edge shaped dent.
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Originally Posted by YSEBB
Doesn't add up??
You can die by tripping on a crack in the sidewalk and falling on your head the wrong way...
Falling with all your weight onto your skull on ice is enough to do severe damage, and most people from my experience get hurt on beginner trails, people get going pretty quick on groomed runs and get complacent and don't pay attention then boom.Quote:
Originally Posted by YSEBB
You kinda said it here.Quote:
Originally Posted by FRP
It was probably just a freak thing. She was more likly to suffer an injury like this filling on a slippery parking lot or tripping down metal stairs in ski boots.
you are a complete FUCKING imbecile!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by YSEBB
That's how my grandfather went -- he fell while getting the mail and hit his head on the curb. Even though he got to the trama center quickly, the swelling was too much and that was it.Quote:
Originally Posted by FRP
Terrible story and I'm sorry for those involved. Our bodies can be incredibly resilient but sometimes as fragile as eggshells. Today I found myself skiing a long 50 degree slope, thick with trees and some wells, by myself and without a helmet. Stupid. I gotta wise up...
According to some reports, the condition that has stricken Ms. Richardson is known as "Talk and then Die Syndrome." That can't be good.
In any event, this just goes to prove what I've been saying all along- Natasha Richardson is the anti-Carl Landry. That motherfucker got shot in the leg and he's only going to miss four games.
I think this calls for a ski-offQuote:
Originally Posted by YSEBB
STFU, JONG!!!!!!!
+++vibes to all involved
apparently a 12 year old jong......Quote:
Originally Posted by YSEBB
sounds like a subdural hematoma. always get head injuries checked out. +vibes+
Anybody catch the today show this morning?
Dr. Nancy was demonstrating brain injuries with an orange...pretty funny.
Seriously though- fucked up story. Apparently she didn't even wack her head. She just had a normal beginner fall and for whatever reason her brain started to swell....the ski patrol or whatever had no reason to eve give her verbal or visual tests to test for brain injury.
That definitely can't be good. She should carefully consider her next words, as they will be her last.Quote:
Originally Posted by Steven S. Dallas
Since the patrol brought her down and advised that she go to the ER, I suspect they did test for a brain injury. I would guess those test showed that there was a brain injury.Quote:
Originally Posted by lionelhutz
Is it standard protocol to bring a person down on a sled, if no injuries are found?
At the time, Richardson was accompanied by a veteran ski instructor, who called the ski patrol, the statement said. The ski patrol members examined her and found no sign of injury.
"As standard protocol, the ski patrol insisted that Ms. Richardson be transported to the base of the hill in a rescue toboggan," the resort statement said. Once at the base of the hill, staffers advised Richardson to seek additional medical attention, but she declined.
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Originally Posted by Crud's Uncle
Not sure what your point is, but something doesn't add up. If she wasn't hurt, was reported to be "laughing after the fall", "it was a normal beginer fall" and patrol found "no sign of injury" why did she go down in a sled?
None the less, sucks that she is in such bad shape.
2nd on this one.Quote:
Originally Posted by bluespark
YOu can be going super slow, catch an edge and get bitch slapped so hard, destroying your skull. YOu could be standing still and go down on your head and still suffer life threatening head trauma.
Agreed!Quote:
Originally Posted by bluespark
I hope she is OK.
You can crack you noggin pretty good an an icy beginner slope. Happened to me twice this year while teaching the kids and not paying attention to what I was doing. Our tail guide at Valhalla had an awesome wipeout on the cat track back to the cats. Luckily his pack kept his head off the ground. Helmets are good! It tends to happen more on a snowboard when you catch your heel edge facing uphill. It CAN happen to anyone regardless of ability.
My wife saw this on the news is is now back on the "I'm never going to snowboard" side of things.
Not making a point, just asking a question. I doubt if it is the protocol, and if not, where did the reporter come up with it?Quote:
Originally Posted by Lloyd Braun
I only watch when she uses a cucumber;)Quote:
Originally Posted by lionelhutz
You don't have to hit your hear very hard to start a bleed. If you are ever with some one that seems forget full, head aches, fuzzy vision et cetera after a head bump, get it checked out ASAP. Especially in older people, since these are also signs of a stroke.
Very unfortunately, I don't think that's the case. Family Friend: 'There Is No Chance' for Natasha Richardson. Lets hope it's only mass media hysteria.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zee
Wanna bet it turns into a pickle? ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by hutash
I've yet to hear enough reliable information to even make an educated guess as to cause; could have been a pre-condition just waiting for that last little push, or even something completely un-related to the "normal" fall.