Allsports Thinks It Was a Tragic Accident

So my post today is not really about sports on the web, but does have implications to sports news and a previous post that I did not to long ago.

If you have been following news on the web or in the print media, you will be aware by now that Natasha Richardson has passed away due to brain complications that arose from a seemingly harmless fall while skiing at the Mont-Tremblant ski resort in the Laurentians north of Montreal.

The poor woman was even on the beginner hill for peat sake.

She was with an instructor at the time of the fall, which the instructor said was nothing at all really and happens often through the course of a skiing day. He said she fell and got up, brushed herself off and was a little embarrassed that she had fallen on such a gentile slope.

She was talking and seemed fine for a while, but then problems started. Doctors refer to this condition as the “talking dead.” A small blood vessel in the brain ruptures and the brain cavity slowly fills with blood, damaging all the cells in the brain.

The resort called one ambulance, but it was turned away because Richardson had said that she was fine and did not need it. Later though, her condition deteriorated and she was rushed to hospital, but by then it was too late. Who knows if she would have survived had she gone in the first ambulance.

Condolences to her family for their loss and especially to her two sons and husband Liam Neeson.

It just goes to show that freak accidents can happen even in seemingly very safe conditions. I am sure she would have refused to wear a helmet, thinking, what could possibly happen?

For more web news on this tragedy go Here and Here

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