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[YorkieonmyPillow]

@CaliKat You're welcome ~ I don't usually watch interviews with actors, but I'm glad I watched this one. I thought it was particularly touching the way he spoke of his stepfather and the wonderful marriage he and his mother had. Sounds like she had many years of real happiness.

[sunshine45]

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@Shelbelle wrote:

John Astin lives here in Baltimore, he teaches theater classes at Johns Hopkins Univ. He is 86, quite an age difference between he and Patty.

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i didnt know that @Shelbelle ! interesting.......

[60sgirl]

other than one little paragraph about her being free from pain, I didn't see any interview so to speak.

I've always liked Sean Astin though. The last article I read said he was the son of her husband Micheal Tell that she was married to for about a week. I don't think so. I think he is Desi Arnaz's son. His face looks like a young Desi when he was with Patty. anyway, he's a good kid, doesn't really matter.

I do find it terrible that HuffPo printed an article  be the Director of the Sepsis Alliance using her death to promote awareness of the subject.  This statement seems crass to me. Instead of praising Patty for her life's body of work, he said this:

"The passing of an icon like Ms. Duke is a tragedy, particularly for someone so young and who did so much for so many," said Thomas Heymann, Executive Director of Sepsis Alliance. "We are thankful for the attention that the Huffington Post story has brought to this deadly disease, and hope it spurs more conversations between patients, families, and health providers."

The piece has also encouraged many other publications to write about sepsis, and has inspired a tremendous response and interest on social media.

I think HuffPo is a rag anyway but saying they are thankful her death has brought attentuion to sepsis? Seems to me like using her celebrity status as a cog to help your cause. 

[60sgirl]

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@Pearlee wrote:

I posted much of this info earlier today on the ongoing thread about her death - I didn't feel a new thread was necessary.

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do you want credit for inventing the internet too? You seem to spend a lot of time scolding anyone who dares to step on your turf. 

[Zhills]

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@60sgirl wrote:

other than one little paragraph about her being free from pain, I didn't see any interview so to speak.

I've always liked Sean Astin though. The last article I read said he was the son of her husband Micheal Tell that she was married to for about a week. I don't think so. I think he is Desi Arnaz's son. His face looks like a young Desi when he was with Patty. anyway, he's a good kid, doesn't really matter.

I do find it terrible that HuffPo printed an article  be the Director of the Sepsis Alliance using her death to promote awareness of the subject.  This statement seems crass to me. Instead of praising Patty for her life's body of work, he said this:

"The passing of an icon like Ms. Duke is a tragedy, particularly for someone so young and who did so much for so many," said Thomas Heymann, Executive Director of Sepsis Alliance. "We are thankful for the attention that the Huffington Post story has brought to this deadly disease, and hope it spurs more conversations between patients, families, and health providers."

The piece has also encouraged many other publications to write about sepsis, and has inspired a tremendous response and interest on social media.

I think HuffPo is a rag anyway but saying they are thankful her death has brought attentuion to sepsis? Seems to me like using her celebrity status as a cog to help your cause. 

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I wondered why it was necessary to make such a todo about her cause of death!  Much more info than usual. 

Maybe it will save someone's life but you don't just "go into sepsis" without other medical concerns.  They make it sound like it just happened!  Not so!

[60sgirl]

@Zhills  of course it didn't just happen, People become aware of sepsis and then start calling their doctors saying they have the same symptoms.

If HuffPo wanted to do a real medical service they would have added more detail on the condition, ie what causes who is more likely to get it and so on. like this:

The number of sepsis cases per year has been on the rise in the United States. This is likely due to a combination of factors, including increased awareness and tracking of the condition, an aging population, the increased longevity of people with chronic diseases, the spread of antibiotic-resistant organisms, an upsurge in invasive procedures and broader use of immunosuppressive and chemotherapeutic agents it,

Because people live so much longer and many of them in nursing homes, they are more prone to the chronic conditions which can lead to this as are cancer patients, immune suppressed people (like AIDS), diabetes, etc. 

Her intestine did not just rupture, did she have Crohns disease? IBD? An untreated infection? If you are going to tell the world a well known person died and what from, then it is no more an invasion of privacy to provide anything else to alleviate other people's fears. There are lots of hypochondriacs out there. 

Since her son said she is free of pain, then did she have something going on for a long time that led to the rupture? 

[mousiegirl]

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@60sgirl wrote:

@Zhills  of course it didn't just happen, People become aware of sepsis and then start calling their doctors saying they have the same symptoms.

If HuffPo wanted to do a real medical service they would have added more detail on the condition, ie what causes who is more likely to get it and so on. like this:

The number of sepsis cases per year has been on the rise in the United States. This is likely due to a combination of factors, including increased awareness and tracking of the condition, an aging population, the increased longevity of people with chronic diseases, the spread of antibiotic-resistant organisms, an upsurge in invasive procedures and broader use of immunosuppressive and chemotherapeutic agents it,

Because people live so much longer and many of them in nursing homes, they are more prone to the chronic conditions which can lead to this as are cancer patients, immune suppressed people (like AIDS), diabetes, etc. 

Her intestine did not just rupture, did she have Crohns disease? IBD? An untreated infection? If you are going to tell the world a well known person died and what from, then it is no more an invasion of privacy to provide anything else to alleviate other people's fears. There are lots of hypochondriacs out there. 

Since her son said she is free of pain, then did she have something going on for a long time that led to the rupture? 

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@60sgirl  Yes, her son said she had suffered for a long time, and had major health issues during the last few years, and I would like to know what.  I read that she was diagnosed in 2014 having presented with stomach pain, but it was not mentioned what she was diagnosed with.

[mousiegirl]

Although I was shocked to hear of her death, I don't understand the comments that she "was so young."  No matter how young a person feels at whatever age, the body is the age and a going on seventy years old body is not young.  

I notice that Sean said he mentioned to her moving, but she said she loved the snow to which he replied :but you can't walk in it," which leads me to believe maybe her heart was one of the medical issues, but unless someone imparts that information, we won't know what plagued her for the past two years.

I do think she was young for a bypass surgery at fifty-seven years which I didn't know until her death.

[sunshine45]

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@mousiegirl wrote:

Although I was shocked to hear of her death, I don't understand the comments that she "was so young."  No matter how young a person feels at whatever age, the body is the age and a going on seventy years old body is not young.  

I notice that Sean said he mentioned to her moving, but she said she loved the snow to which he replied :but you can't walk in it," which leads me to believe maybe her heart was one of the medical issues, but unless someone imparts that information, we won't know what plagued her for the past two years.

I do think she was young for a bypass surgery at fifty-seven years which I didn't know until her death.

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69 is too young to die.......for me, anyone who dies and is under the age of 80 (not sure why i "picked" that particular age) i feel it is too young to die. so much life still left to live and family to watch grow.

[LilacTree]

Informative article on sepsis.  I've always said I feared infection more than cancer and this article supports that.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/patty-duke-death-sepsis-awareness_us_56faf2b6e4b0a06d5803ef31?