Carrie Fisher (Princess Leah) rushed to hospital after "cardiac episode"

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It sounds like she wasn't breathing for at least ten minutes. I'm afraid it's not looking good. I hope she is able to recover.

I'm hoping that's just speculation regarding the breathing. If it's true, then she must be brain dead.

I thought the same. Think her brother will have a very difficult decision to make unfortunately.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like she wasn't breathing for at least ten minutes. I'm afraid it's not looking good. I hope she is able to recover.

I'm hoping that's just speculation regarding the breathing. If it's true, then she must be brain dead.

I thought the same. Think her brother will have a very difficult decision to make unfortunately.

And perhaps her mother.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:She had to lose 35 lbs in a hurry for the last Star Wars movie she was in. It was contractual - lose the weight or don't appear.

That alone would have put strain on her heart (already damaged by the years of abuse, which don't mend).

It wasn't a hurry... she signed on well over a year before they started filming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like she wasn't breathing for at least ten minutes. I'm afraid it's not looking good. I hope she is able to recover.

I'm hoping that's just speculation regarding the breathing. If it's true, then she must be brain dead.

I thought the same. Think her brother will have a very difficult decision to make unfortunately.

And perhaps her mother.

She has an adult daughter.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It sounds like she wasn't breathing for at least ten minutes. I'm afraid it's not looking good. I hope she is able to recover.

I'm hoping that's just speculation regarding the breathing. If it's true, then she must be brain dead.

I thought the same. Think her brother will have a very difficult decision to make unfortunately.

And perhaps her mother.

She has an adult daughter.

It look so grim. And her adult daughter, Billie, is her next of kin.

[Anonymous]

I loved Postcards from the Edge. I saw it in the theatre and remember laughing so hard. I also saw the video of her one woman show in which she tells more about life with her parents, especially her mother, and it was also very funny.

She was also my favorite part of When Harry Met Sally. "You know, I don't think he's ever going to leave her. . . You're right, you're right, he's never going to leave her. . . " And the fight over the wagon wheel coffee table. Loved that scene!

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Anonymous wrote:I loved Postcards from the Edge. I saw it in the theatre and remember laughing so hard. I also saw the video of her one woman show in which she tells more about life with her parents, especially her mother, and it was also very funny.

She was also my favorite part of When Harry Met Sally. "You know, I don't think he's ever going to leave her. . . You're right, you're right, he's never going to leave her. . . " And the fight over the wagon wheel coffee table. Loved that scene!

Everyone talks about "I'll have what she's having" but the best line of the movie is:

"I want you to know... I will never want that wagon wheel coffee table."

[Anonymous]

My mother had an heart arrhythmia and stopped breathing long enough for it to kill her brain. She resumed breathing but my sister and I had to make the decision to take her off life support and she passed 4 days later.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I loved Postcards from the Edge. I saw it in the theatre and remember laughing so hard. I also saw the video of her one woman show in which she tells more about life with her parents, especially her mother, and it was also very funny.

She was also my favorite part of When Harry Met Sally. "You know, I don't think he's ever going to leave her. . . You're right, you're right, he's never going to leave her. . . " And the fight over the wagon wheel coffee table. Loved that scene!

Everyone talks about "I'll have what she's having" but the best line of the movie is:

"I want you to know... I will never want that wagon wheel coffee table."

Agreed. I love her character in that movie.

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Anonymous wrote:My mother had an heart arrhythmia and stopped breathing long enough for it to kill her brain. She resumed breathing but my sister and I had to make the decision to take her off life support and she passed 4 days later.

Something similar happened to DH's cousin. She was 51 and had a massive heart attack at home and stopped breathing for a while . She was in a coma for a week in the hospital after she was found and then the family took her off life support. The family kept referring to the day she had the heart attack as the day she died.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:She had to lose 35 lbs in a hurry for the last Star Wars movie she was in. It was contractual - lose the weight or don't appear.

That alone would have put strain on her heart (already damaged by the years of abuse, which don't mend).

It wasn't a hurry... she signed on well over a year before they started filming.

Meh. Its a hurry when you're in your late 50s. Nothing if you are in your 20s.

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Anonymous wrote:Praying doesn't do anything. Give money to the American Heart Association. Or, you know, spend some time with your family instead of worrying about a movie actress you don't personally know.

I don't pray but if I did I would thank God that you are not, you know, a member of my family.

How do you know? It's an anonymous forum after all!

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Anonymous wrote:Didn't she do dumptrucks worth of coke? You can't do that to your body and expect to come out of it healthy.

Of course, I don't know her personally, but it's probably been many decades since she had a drug problem. She was mainly trying to self-medicate her severe bipolar depression.

Self-medicating bipolar with cocaine? Yea ok....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Praying doesn't do anything. Give money to the American Heart Association. Or, you know, spend some time with your family instead of worrying about a movie actress you don't personally know.

I don't pray but if I did I would thank God that you are not, you know, a member of my family.

But you don't, so that's that.

[Anonymous]

Her mother says she is in stable condition. http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/23/entertainment/carrie-fisher-cardiac-arrest/