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I've been keeping up with this since all of the happened yesterday. It's sad, and kind of crazy to boot. From what I understand, she was skiing and basically just fell over on a beginner's slope. No crashing into trees, etc., and didn't start having headaches until like an hour later. Makes me feel kind of lucky for all the times I wiped out on black slopes without a helmet and came out with just a few bruises.
Hearing all of this and hearing that she didn't even have a visible wound to her head makes me think she had an aneurysm or something else. Prayers to the family. R.I.P.
This is really sad.
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Jesus I love Liam Neeson...my prayers are with his family may God rest her soul.
Very sad. And she has two children as well.
I don't think that I will ever go downhill skiing again.
Well he just became newly single.....go for it dude!
I mentioned to my husband that it might have been a mini-stroke or aneurysm that caused the initial fall, since there were no obstacles in her path.
How sad. Such an elegant lady, elegant couple, and elegant family. This kind of death can be a real surprise but is really not that uncommon. Being up and around lucid, after a head injury, only to succomb a couple of hours later is a classic manisfestation of a subdural hematoma, which is an ac ulation of blood between the skull and the brain.
It can occur even when there is no visible injury, because the injury happens inside the skull where the brain is "rattled". It can be a slow leak of blood that takes an hour or so to cause impairment. As the blood ac ulates it places a great pressure on the brain with massive swelling. Because the skull cannot expand to accomodate the pressure buildup, the brain is pushed downwards thru the opening at the base of the skull where the brainstem connects to the spinal cord. This herniation is a fatal condition. In the worst situations it can happen in an instant. In the ICU, it happened many times right before our eyes. Very tragic.
I feel sorry for that slope, liam neeson has alot of money but he has a set of skills dangerous to people like you mr. slope. He will find you and he will kill you/
That's horrible. I hope Liam will be alright. I can't imagine my wife just being gone from my life like that.
I remember watching the news at 7 a.m this morning, at that time it was rumored that she was brain dead. 12 hours later she's gone =\. Really sad, I loved her. I don't think I can watch the Parent Trap the same way again.
Very sad. RIP
That is sad.
Very sad, I've been following this as well. Hard to believe....and I just watched Liam in the movie Taken, which was very good by the way.
Wow, that's horrible.
I was supposed to go skiing in Mont Tremblant this weekend (I live in Montreal, which is close).
I don't think I will
That's why I started working out my brain with drugs and alcohol from an early age...toughened it up so it could handle those double diamond crashes at mach 2.
that is very sad....
but ski resorts piss me off the way they are so inconsistent in the way they determine the difficulty of certain trails.....
some greens should be blues, some blues should be blacks and I've even skied some blacks that could easily have been greens.
there's one green at Ruidosa (I think) that has something like a 100 foot drop straight off the right side. Why?
Are there any rules regarding wearing a helmet when skiing at these resorts? And I would think a tragic accident could happen on any level or color of course or trail.
nope, and they probably never will
tragic accidents should never happen on a green. If it can, then it shouldn't be a green.And I would think a tragic accident could happen on any level or color of course or trail.
They are inconsistent because the snow is inconsistent. They generally base green/blue/black/double black on the percent of grade. Because even blacks have to be groomed when they get too icy/skiied off you can occasionally hit a black that doesn't have any moguls, while another blue might be slick and cut up bad with short choppy moguls because it didn't get groomed the night before. Double blacks never get groomed because they are too steep to safely put equipment on. I've skiied some double blacks that were so steep that once you started you had to finish (either on your skis or flipping/rolling) because if you tried to pull up and stop the snow would just fall out from under your skis.
I remember that run you are talking about at Ruidoso. The one and only time I skiied there (it sucked) we would tuck coming off the lift and when we got to that area you were talking about would break hard left and blast off the lip and get 60-70' of air jumping in to the trail below it.
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