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Evel Knievel, the World’s Biggest Daredevil died in Clearwater on Friday.  He was only 69, when he passed from shortness of breath.  Sources say that he couldn’t get to the hospital fast enough.  Knievel’s health had been failing over the years, as a diabetic he also suffered from a condition that causes scarring on his lungs.  He was never to recover from this condition and in 1999 had a liver transplant supposedly from Hepatitis C.  Evel was diagnosed with Hepatitis C and nearly died from the disease. 

Some people say he contracted the disease from a blood transfusion, but the information has not been confirmed.  Conditions like this can change in a matter of minutes.  One minute you could be feeling just fine and then the next minute, you could be facing something more serious.  Our thoughts and prayers go out to all of his family and friends.  This Legend was one of a kind!  

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For all you Kanye West fans out there, I am sorry to say that his mother dies last week and for Kanye the pain may never go away.  I hope he gets justice!  I am not a huge fan of his, but I really could not imagine my life without my mother in it.  Dr. Jan Adams, who is not licensed to perform plastic surgery on patients, should be punished for his actions.  Operating on someone for money is a huge risk in itself, but then to throw plastic surgery into the mix is just wrong when you are not licensed or when you have gotten a medical degree from another country because you could pass the exam in this country. 

I have always had strong feelings about this, so things like this can be avoided.  Donda West was Kanye’s biggest fan and now she can only look down on him from a far distance.  This past week, the West family and friends gathered together to say their sweet goodbyes.  No one ever expects things like this to happen, but when they do it is always hard on everyone involved.  Adams has been under the police’s radar and there is a serious investigation underway.  This so called doctor expressed his horrible beliefs about what happened to Donda, saying that she overdosed or had a heart attack, but cannot really explain further until the final results of autopsy are revealed.  But, when he walked off the Larry King Live show the other night, you could tell that maybe he crossed some major boundaries. 

Judging from what the audience viewed, Dr. Adams came on the show after it started and stated that he was honoring the West Family wishes by not saying anything about the misconstrued information that the news has provided to the public.  This is utter bull sh*t.  He also said to Larry King, “I want to thank you for this opportunity.  Basically, I had come here to talk about things in the press that aren’t accurate about me.  “But I have a tremendous amount of love and respect for the West family. They asked me not to go on. And I’ve said from the very beginning, I don’t have a side in this”.  “They are my side, and I’m going to respect their wishes. I’m going to apologize to you because I think I’m taking up your air time, but I will not be on the show and I’m not going to discuss any of that. I’m going to honor their wishes.”  He makes me sick!

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After hearing what has happened to the Quaid Twins, it made me realize that you cannot trust anyone that works in a hospital.  You should always have someone watching every move that a nurse or doctor makes, while you are in the hospital.  I know that if I go into the hospital anytime soon, I will definitely have some friend or family member there at all times with me.  For all you know a doctor may give you something and kill you.  I am sorry, but the $250,000 for mal-practice law suits, is not worth my life.  I am not going to get the money and my family believe it or not would rather have me over money any day of the week.  CE’s thoughts and prayers go out to the entire Quaid family.  Dennis Quaid is a fine actor and hearing things like this make me appreciate life a lot more.  If you have not heard about this story yet, let me give you a little insight.  Dennis and Kimberly Quaid recently had a surrogate mother have their baby twins on November 8, 2007.

During the twins time in the hospital some idiot supposedly made the mistake of giving each of the new born babies 10,000 units of heparin, which is an anti-coagulant.  Babies normally get 10 units of heparin compared to the 10,000 units that an adult may receive.  So, Cedar’s-Sinai Medical Center has made a huge error and given each baby more heparin than their bodies could handle and the babies started to bleed out of several areas of the body.  The twins are in the neo-natal intensive care unit and are at this time in stable condition.  Thank God!  A statement has been released from the hospital’s chief medical officer, Dr. Michael Langberg, I want to extend my deepest apologies to the families who were affected by this situation, and we will continue to work with them on any concerns or questions they may have. 

In addition, “This was a preventable error, involving a failure to follow our standard policies and procedures, and there is no excuse for that to occur at Cedars-Sinai. Although it appears at this point that there was no harm to any patient, we take this situation very seriously.”  Honestly, how can you say there has been no harm done to any patient, no doctor will know the effects that the drug would have right away, it could take up to six weeks to learn the true effects.  The chief medical officer also added that three unidentified patients had their IVs flushed with an overly high concentration of heparin, used to keep IV catheters from clotting.  So, not only did they give this drug to the twins another person or baby for all we know was given the wrong dosage by supposed error.  The other person has been unidentified by the way.  Then it was proclaimed that other patients at the Center had also been tested immediately after they identified the error made as a precaution.  

Michael Langberg said, “As a result of a preventable error, the patients’ IV catheters were flushed with heparin from vials containing a concentration of 10,000 units per milliliter instead of from vials containing a concentration of 10 units per milliliter.”
 

Other patients were tested as a precaution, Langberg said.  Currently, the patients including the Quaid twins, Thomas Boone and Zoe Grace have received a drug by IV to reverse the effects of heparin and bring the body levels back to normal. 
 

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