Heavy D is dead? NOOOOooooo!!!

Thankfully, Sunny D is still around, so the void has been filled.

What about Da Boyz?

Yeah, yeah, his weight, his weight, blah blah blah. I *LOVE* how the media and medical officials love to jump on that bandwagon when something like this happens. Yes, I know the fact that he was overweight played a major factor in his condition; obviously it would.

But the man flew from London to LA. That's an 11-hour-plus flight, and I'm willing to bet there were no layovers. You cannot sit in one place for 11 hours and not develop DVT. While it surely is more likely to happen to an obese person, it can happen to people of normal weight just as easily under the same circumstances.

Pulmonary Embolisms (PE) took the life of news reporter David Bloom, who apparently seemed to be in very good health up until he passed. PE causes up to 200,000 U.S. deaths annually - more than AIDS and breast cancer combined. (new window)

This is pretty eye opening, because prior to David Bloom and Heavy D, I hadn't heard much of this disease.

He probably just drank to much aspartame and let a mobile phone block his orgone flow. But they would never tell you that!

Rest in peace, sir.

Ed Finnerty: Pffft. I spend most days sitting for that long working and I haven't had abda089b -9\ujjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj

The difference is that when you're working, you get up and move around, whereas on an airplane, you're stuck in one position for the length of the flight, and there's not even space to shift your legs.

As Thomas Harris pointed out, slaves traveling the middle passage in the 18th century had more space and freedom of movement than a person flying coach on a modern airliner.

Pete, meet Repeat

Deep leg thrombosis? Subby must have graduated from Hollywood Upstairs Medical College.

Him and Guru in the same year? Noooooooooo

Ham hock, clogged!

/Tin roof, rusted!
//Obscure?

well, they didnt call him "healthy D".

As someone who spends 10-11 hours a shift with my ass planted in a office chair DVT scares the shiat out of me.

I was under the impression that flight attendants already encourage people to get up and stretch around snack and meal times for long flights. Maybe it was just a specific airline that had adopted such a procedure. Just seems like it would be par for the course to have notices up and announcements made, but maybe that opens airlines up to accountability/legal issues if they take on the responsibility.

(?)

/embarking on first long-haul flight next year

Evilnissan: As someone who spends 10-11 hours a shift with my ass planted in a office chair DVT scares the shiat out of me.
Hey, maybe you'll get lucky and contract RLS!

Well, the nubianrs love they po'k

Atomic Spunk: Pulmonary Embolisms (PE) took the life of news reporter David Bloom, who apparently seemed to be in very good health up until he passed. PE causes up to 200,000 U.S. deaths annually - more than AIDS and breast cancer combined. (new window)

This is pretty eye opening, because prior to David Bloom and Heavy D, I hadn't heard much of this disease.

Great. Now I have something else to feed my hypochondria. Thanks a lot.

Evilnissan: As someone who spends 10-11 hours a shift with my ass planted in a office chair DVT scares the shiat out of me.

Get up off your fat ass and get some exercise.

As someone who almost died from the same thing, I'm getting a kick...

AgtSmithReloaded: Yeah, yeah, his weight, his weight, blah blah blah. I *LOVE* how the media and medical officials love to jump on that bandwagon when something like this happens. Yes, I know the fact that he was overweight played a major factor in his condition; obviously it would.

But the man flew from London to LA. That's an 11-hour-plus flight, and I'm willing to bet there were no layovers. You cannot sit in one place for 11 hours and not develop DVT. While it surely is more likely to happen to an obese person, it can happen to people of normal weight just as easily under the same circumstances.

I used to do the Hong Kong - New Jersey leg on Continental once a month. That's a 20-22 hour flight. Somehow, we all managed to survive.

A pulmonary embolism nearly killed my grandmother. It was initially diagnosed by the doctor as pneumonia because pneumonia is common in the elderly. DVTs are no joke. There should be more information given to the public about this because it affects people at any age. Didn't one of the Williams sisters (the tennis players) have one recently?

Spent 10 months on a small FOB in Afghanistan with 200 trips outside the wire with nary a scratch, Flew an old charter plane back home and landed in America with a DVT.

Died due to too much healthy living?



If you want the Lady's Blessings in the afterlife, then die healthily. Die unhealthily, and there's no burial. Your corpse is hung upside-down on the outer wall.

The D stands for dead.

/Thread over, thank me at the next one.

RIP Heavy D and condolences to your daughter Xea.

Dwight_Yeast: Evilnissan: As someone who spends 10-11 hours a shift with my ass planted in a office chair DVT scares the shiat out of me.

Get up off your fat ass and get some exercise.

Doesn't just happen to fat people...

As a sufferer of Factor V Leiden who has had 3 DVTs in the lower legs, I can tell you just that SUUUUUUCCCCCKKKKKSSSSS

No blood flow or heavily reduced blood flow = the worst cramp you have ever experienced, yet you cannot make it go away. The pain was excruciating.

PE is supposedly that times about 100 at least.

If you sit for a long time, and have a cramp that just won't go away, get to the DR. ASAP and get checked, because in a few hours it's going to come back and fark you up either through DVT or PE. Either way you're going to hate it.

Dwight_Yeast: Ed Finnerty: Pffft. I spend most days sitting for that long working and I haven't had abda089b -9\ujjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjjj

The difference is that when you're working, you get up and move around, whereas on an airplane, you're stuck in one position for the length of the flight, and there's not even space to shift your legs.

As Thomas Harris pointed out, slaves traveling the middle passage in the 18th century had more space and freedom of movement than a person flying coach on a modern airliner.

In my continuing campaign to point out the obvious to morons, I am merely going to state that ofcourse you would have more room to move on a ship than an airplane, because it would take weeks or months for an 18th century ship to reach its destination, compared to a scant few hours for a modern airplane.

Thank you for playing.

DoBeDoBeDo: As a sufferer of Factor V Leiden
Yes, my wife had this genetic predisposition to clotting. Thats another term that is helpful BLOOD CLOT (folks don't always know what a thrombus is, or letters like PE and DVT)

Dwight_Yeast:

The difference is that when you're working, you get up and move around, whereas on an airplane, you're stuck in one position for the length of the flight, and there's not even space to shift your legs.

As Thomas Harris pointed out, slaves traveling the middle passage in the 18th century had more space and freedom of movement than a person flying coach on a modern airliner.

It's not actually so much the lack of space but the position of the body. Legs below heart, bent to make a nice "kink" in the veins, low pressure. Simply tapping your foot is a great way to reduce DVT risk, wearing compression socks or even just dress socks that go up to the knee helps as well. Of course standing up and walking to the back of the plane/restroom is the best bet.