Rosie O'Donnell Suffers Heart Attack; Blogs for Women's Health — Page 2

phyl
lets dish
so srry 2 here
about ur illness

we rnt sying
"die ro die"
we r sying
"when webmd says
ur having a <3 a tak
its rellleee
time 2 call
911"

LOL I didn't realize it was self-righteous to have a little compassion and empathy. Would you be reacting like this if, G-d forbid, Patti LuPone had a heart attack?

i m not an elderlee prsn
either
i just beleave
in western medicine
n common symtums
so i not
have chance
of dead

r i hope next time
u feel ill
u call a dr.
rite away
bc that is
important

I do miss them two

<3 atak serius
Run in my fam
Mak fun of ro
No
Choices bad
Culd b sad
Don b mad
Ro is glad

eye m glad
4 rosie
she run the gamet
a 2 z
3 cheers n damnit
say la vee
she still here
(evn aftr delayed response
2 sereeus med issue)

Okay, enough with this haiku SH*T. Look, I feel bad that she had a heart attack, I'm glad she's recovering and seems to be doing well. But seriously Rosie, if you have ALMOST ALL the symptoms of a heart attack: CALL FREAKIN' 911! You aren't immortal.

she did not die
people mad jokes
re paula deen
and her diabeetes
butter y'all

no 1 has
been that mean her
2 ro

I'm now going to post light verse responses in the style of Noel Coward:

Paula Deen was a diabetic
And a heavy smoker too
She wasn't what you'd call athletic
And she didn't eat tofu.

When she found out
She started to pout,
But then she changed her ditty.
She started to cook
With less gobbles of gook,
And her food still wasn't sh*tty.

Rosie O
Had a lovely show
And hosted the Tonys a lot.
She seems to be smart
But regarding her heart
It seems that she was not.

So Rosie O
Now you know
To contact the doctor with speed
Or else this thread
Would mourn you dead
And that's something we don't need.


Denial makes sense, and of course, people feel that way, but she couldn't have been in THAT MUCH denial if she looked it up on the computer. And doesn't she have a family that watches out for her? Wouldn't they say, "Hey, call a doctor."?

Updated On: 8/20/12 at 10:46 PM

Michael Reisner, the "crazy Cheerios burning guy" died of a heart attack recently.

Don Perry, Chick-fil-A's VP, recently died of a heart attack.

I can understand hating on a people like them (while I still find it slightly inhuman in those instances too), but our friend, supporter, and cheerleader Rosie? On a Broadway message board, to publicly mock her in this way, is deplorable.

It's in this context. You may not like her as a person, you may not agree with her politics, you may think she is talentless, fat, not funny, unwise, etc. -- and that's your opinion, which is fine -- but in this context, I do not find it appropriate to make fun of her in response to news that she has had a heart attack.

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"She has a heart attack, and you MOCK her? Deplorable. This is not the context in which to do so. Bad form."

Perhaps it was the way she suffered the heart attack that makes it less tragic than other heart attacks. She didn't know she had a heart attack. She took an aspirin and went on with her life as if nothing happened. she said she only did something about it from a commercial.

This heart attack was a wakeup call for her. Now she can take better care of herself if she chooses.

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I saw this really well researched documentary on health disparities in the US, and interestingly enough, our response to health issues is not very much informed by our parents' response to their own, but rather how our grandparents responded to health problems. Given Rosie's Irish background, this complete denial doesn't surprise me at all.

My own late mother was one of those "never sick a day in my life" type women, in her house growing up in the depression, there was not medical care. Her grandparents were back in Ireland, and to them the body was a mystery. By the time my mom grew up, she was fully inculcated in the legends of the working class: "Mrs. So and So was never sick a day in her life and she went to the doctor and they felt something and told her it was probably nothing to worry about but they were going to cut her open to explore, and as soon as the air hit it it spread all over her body and she was dead in three weeks. She would still be alive if she hadn't gone to the doctor."

That was how she thought. She rarely got sick. But like a lot of Irish people born in the '20s, she smoked starting in her teens. One weekend, when I was somewhere in my 30s, my mom didn't feel good and spent a weekend in bed. "I'm never sick!" she kept saying. Many months later, she had a passing out incident at the Goodspeed Opera House ("was there swearing in the show?" I asked) and ended up in the hospital. All evidence pointed to a massive heart attack back on that weekend when she "didn't feel well."

That's all a long way of saying, people can become very detached from their physical bodies for all sorts of reasons. That, to me, sounds like Rosie. A 99% blockage seems insane to me, with all her risk factors, they didn't know this? I'm glad she made it this time, but I'm also a little shocked that the woman who was devastated by her own mother's death would be so foolish now that she has kids of her own. There comes a time when it stops being about you, and you have to take care of yourself so you'll be around for your g.d. young kids.

And I am sure if Rosie had found it somewhere within herself not to stick with the verse structure, people here wouldn't be so inclined to do it too.

It's what she
does
Y r people
shocked
when others do 2

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I'm usually such a good sport and am the furthest from being a prude as one can get, but I couldn't get through this thread.

Not pointing fingers. It's cool if you feel this is a time for humor.

I'm so glad she is OK. Much love to her and her loved ones.

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No, you're right. There is nothing that stands out from this that is any different to similar reactions.

I haven't thought about it enough to understand why I couldn't get through the thread. But I know I'm not feeling a need to scream at anyone, even if I do have an affection for ol' ro. =)

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