Rowdy dying at 41 was not in my bingo card yesterday. He really was the talent of a generation. Pretty shocking.
4 Likes
I also have held a permanent grudge against the cowboys since they beat Denver in super bowl 12. I remember Craig very well. But if Iām 64 and I was a kid then, it does make perfect sense. Thatās the part of my brain Iām trying to readjustā¦ If Iām beginning to approach the general life expectancy of males from century ago, I have to expect it even those people who have bucked that trend quite a bit are going to finally start falling off the tree. Not to mention that the older you live into those years, the higher the chance that some body system will finally give up. Whereas Iād like to put it thatās just that many more years for something to go catastrophically wrong. 
6 Likes
Not that itās any my business, but unless someone has a major health problem or, a major habit problem, it 's pretty hard to drop dead at 41.
6 Likes
I heard on the radio today that he died of a severe case of pneumonia (that he neglected to treat); and it turned into sepsis.
I guess he was testing a Nascar simulator and passed out. I donāt know if he ever regained consciousness?
Iām not doctor, but unless there are other health issues he was dealing with, his death seemed preventable.
4 Likes
Thatās too bad. Iām sorry for his family and fans.
FWIW, for those who are interested there is a vaccine for bacterial pneumonia available.
I got one 5 years ago. like the Varivax itās actually kind of tough for a day or two, but as we get older
Pneumococcal vaccines protect against severe bacterial infections like pneumonia, meningitis, and bloodstream infections. Routine vaccination is universally recommended for infants and young children, while adult guidelines prioritize those 50 and older or individuals aged 19ā49 with specific underlying medical conditions. [1, 2, 3, 4]
The shingles vaccine available is Shingrix, a highly effective, non-live vaccine recommended for healthy adults 50 and older, as well as adults 19 and older with weakened immune systems. It is administered in two doses to provide strong, long-lasting protection against shingles and its painful nerve complications. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
6 Likes
I didnāt share a lot of fine details with people on the message board about everything that occurred to me while I was stuck in that nursing home from 2016 to 2019, but in the last 8 months I went in for my annual CT scan to keep an eye on my kidney and just a general review of everything else, and only thanks to that did they discover bilateral pulmonary embolisms. They actually called me up on my phone while I was being driven back to the nursing home and made me go back right away. I just stay overnight and get put on Coumadin for a couple of months I think.
A pulmonary embolism out of nowhere is what killed Catherine OāHara, so please donāt make such a broad statement. Things like this can happen. A sudden stroke out of nowhere It does happen.
3 Likes
I take your point, and it sounds like it was pneumonia.
1 Like
And apparently sepsis. The quick point of reference for those who know my history of knee infections, it was a sudden appearance of sepsis in my knee 10 years ago effectively tomorrow the 24th, that ended up completely derailing my life and slowly deteriorating my health over 10 years.
Normally your body keeps things like strep and standard staff in check, but if your immune system weakens for whatever reason at all, you could roar into sepsis faster than you can spit. Because I went to sleep one night feeling okay I guess and I woke up the next morning in the most insane agony I had felt since my kidney sounds like five or six years earlier.
I managed to survive that, but living in that environment exposed me to the most deadly form of MRSA, which is of course almost constantly being evolved by being in those environments where people are making attempts to weaken it but it just gets stronger.
So for whatever reason, he could have gone septic even from pneumonia bacteria. Condolences and prayers for peace for his family.
3 Likes