Vale Natasha Richardson

I believe the family donated her organs…God bless them!!!

My sympathy to her family.

I must say that I’m very surprised by how she was treated. She fell on a ski slope near Montreal, & was taken to hospital there, with a suspected head injury. She was then transferred to New York. Why? If you suspect bleeding into the skull you don’t move someone if you can avoid it. And why didn’t they confirm the bleeding with a brain scan, & when confirmed, operate? My mother had her life saved by such an operation, almost 20 years ago.

I’ve also been there, though luckily didn’t need an operation. I fell on a ski slope in Italy in 2006. Winded at the time, no more. Didn’t even bang my head, though it was shaken badly. Skied on for a while. Later developed a slight headache, & started feeling dozy, so hied me to a doctor, who dispatched me down the valley to the local (& very small) hospital, with a note marked URGENTE!, circled in red. They shoved me into bed & monitored me for a while, while I got groggier & groggier, then sent me to a bigger hospital further down the valley for a brain scan, strapped down in an ambulance which drove very steadily, to minimise any shaking (nice driving – very smooth).

I was OK; just swelling of the brain caused by bruising, & was returned to the minor hospital, where I was declared fit to travel in time to go home on schedule. Within hours of the scan, I was recovering, & if I hadn’t had it, it would soon have become apparent it wasn’t needed. But you see why I’m spelling this all out? I was an ordinary skier, examined by ordinary doctors at a tiny small-town hospital, & they recognised the risk & were getting ready to have my head cut open (at the main hospital) to save my life if needed. They didn’t wait because they knew that if they did, it could be too late. AFAIK, they followed standard procedures. My mother was treated just the same in 1990, here in England.

Ms. Richardson seems not to have had this treatment, & I’m baffled by it. I would expect there to have been a good chance of saving her life, if what I thought were standard procedures had been followed.

RIP Natasha, you would have been a true great one of these days…

I don’t think she’d have gone on to become a Hollywood great…she was a good actress but not in the same class as her Mother…only my opinion!!!

Sad news indeed.:( She will be missed.RIP Natasha.

Very sad news indeed, such a tragic accident which at the time appeared to be just a silly fall on a nursery slope. The head and brain are delicate.

RIP Natasha, you would have been a true great one of these days…

Sad news, 🙁