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| Bloody Hoovers, why do they hate us ? |
| 2017-01-21 |
| [Daily Mail] A housewife was found slumped over her vacuum cleaner after mysteriously suffering an anaphylactic shock and dying. Susan Mullins was discovered lying face-down having collapsed suddenly while doing housework, an inquest heard. Scientists were unable to find the cause of the fatal anaphylactic shock which caused a dramatic fall in Mrs Mullins' blood pressure. An inquest into her death heard that the tragic mother's body was found lying face-down over her Hoover at her home near Reading, Berkshire, on September 13. Berkshire coroner Peter Bedford said that there was no explanation for her 'sudden collapse which was because of the use of the Hoover at the time'. He read a statement from Mrs Mullins' close friend who was the first person to find her at her home. Christine Cooper was among more than half a dozen family members who attended the inquest and told Mr Bedford that mystery had also surrounded the death of Mrs Mullins' younger sister. Ms Cooper desperately gave her friend CPR until paramedics arrived after she used a spare key to enter her home when there was no response to knocks on the door. The pair had planned to go shopping but there was no answer at Mrs Mullins' door in Heathfield in Mortimer Common. 'I could tell immediately that she was not breathing and called an ambulance,' Ms Cooper said in the statement. She took instructions from a 999 call handler as she tried to revive her friend but paramedics pronounced her dead at the scene and called the police. |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #13 Hopefully it helps. Can I have my eyebrows back now? |
| Posted by: gorb 2017-01-21 23:57 |
| #12 TW, can they put a Fitbit on her and watch her for a few weeks or months to confirm low activity? OMG, that's a brilliant idea, gorb!!! I talked her into getting an old smart phone and a sleeping app to show long hours of really poor sleep, but this is will help nail it home. I knew there was a reason I hung around this place! Thank you!! And Besoeker, you are ever a gallant darling. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-01-21 23:38 |
| #11 "Scientists were unable to find the cause of the fatal anaphylactic shock which caused a dramatic fall in Mrs Mullins' blood pressure." And they got the pre-"dramatic fall" baseline from where exactly? |
| Posted by: Blossom Unains5562 2017-01-21 22:47 |
| #10 TW, can they put a Fitbit on her and watch her for a few weeks or months to confirm low activity? |
| Posted by: gorb 2017-01-21 18:43 |
| #9 I look healthy, too, but at least I have a diagnosis and a husband who didn't bolt when it became clear this was not a short term situation. It was your culinary skills which no doubt saved you. Men habitually default to this, regardless of other shortcomings :-) |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-01-21 16:13 |
| #8 Truly, gorb. I have a girlfriend who possibly has the rarest of the four types, but remains undiagnosed as idiopathic (no known cause) chronic fatigue for a quarter century. Because she has no diagnosis, she cannot sign up for Social Security disability, and because she looks perfectly healthy, even doctors accuse her of shamming. I look healthy, too, but at least I have a diagnosis and a husband who didn't bolt when it became clear this was not a short term situation. This is the lady whose schizophrenic son is in jail to be tried for murdering his grandmother. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-01-21 16:08 |
| #7 NHS pediatrician and specialists the parents had consulted previously diagnosed her as a "lazy baby" who just felt no need to lift her head, roll over or crawl.! Seventy years later and NOW I FIND OUT. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-01-21 16:06 |
| #6 Man. That sucks. |
| Posted by: gorb 2017-01-21 15:17 |
| #5 Sorry. SMA presents as chronic fatigue in the adult-onset types. In infants it presents as failure to progress along the stages of development. The Daily Mail had an article a few days ago about a toddler who was finally diagnosed at age four; the NHS pediatrician and specialists the parents had consulted previously diagnosed her as a "lazy baby" who just felt no need to lift her head, roll over or crawl.! until the final specialist ran the test that revealed the true cause. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-01-21 15:01 |
| #4 Going back to the article one learns: The inquest heard that Mrs Mullins, who had a life-limiting disease called spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) and heart and lung health problems, had suffered from adverse side-effects from medication she had taken months before her death. The coroner, however, ruled out the possibility that it could have caused her death after her GP at Mortimer Surgery reported that the 'puffiness' in her eyes decreased and that she was taken off the medication. SMA is a very rare degenerative condition that presents as chronic fatigue, and I believe was completely untreatable until recently. The only medication approved by the FDA has a high level of adverse side effects, and likely, like hormonal birth control and antidepression medications, causes problems when one stops taking it as well as when one is on the stuff. But the FDA only approved me the stuff in December, so that information has not yet appeared. Whether the National Health Service earlier approved medications, or whether the lady in question was participating in a clinical trial, is not mentioned inthe article. And the coroner will not have wanted to accuse the doctor of manslaughter-by-neglect without hard data and precedents. That would impugn the entire NHS, the one thing all agree makes Britain British, and is another reason to avoid complete government ownership of health care delivery. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2017-01-21 14:53 |
| #3 There is such a thing as exercise-induced anaphylaxis. |
| Posted by: Anguper Hupomosing9418 2017-01-21 10:51 |
| #2 Anaphylactic shock? Evidently she was allergic to housework. |
| Posted by: ed in texas 2017-01-21 10:19 |
| #1 Something Mr. Mullins tracked in no doubt. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2017-01-21 07:53 |