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I was on a very long flight ( in coach) without any turbulence once when an overhead bin popped open and someone's huge wheeled luggage fell on my head. ( This was prior to all the cutbacks in luggage carry-on sizes).
This explains a lot, actually.
I was on a flight to Wisconsin and when the plane landed there was a woman that definitely must have been in a hurry. I stood to get my bag out of the overhead compartment and I guess I wasn't moving fast enough. She reached over my head, grabbed her bag (that was to the right of mine). It was a heavy bag and she must have thought she could lift it high enough to go over my head. Well, she couldn't and she slammed her bag into my right temple. I immediately sat down and even though I was embarrassed I started to cry. She kept going. Oh, she did say "sorry" as she was walking down the aisle. I kept thinking about Natasha Richardson. Now since this has happened with Billy Mays (although it hasn't been proven that it was the cause of his death), I think we should all be a little more careful when we get a small bump on the head. Obviously, any time you get hit in the head it needs to be taken seriously.
No head trauma
No PE
Hypertensive heart disease, thickening of arteries. Heart weighed over 500 grams, which is pathologically significant.
No drug abuse, taking prescriptions as instructed.
COD to be released after toxicology reports
Looking like heart disease killed him , although there was no recent evidence of heart attack. Arterial spasm would not be seen.
Sad, says that sudden death is not uncommon in this age range due to heart disease, up to 30% of heart disease has the first symptom as sudden death.
Most common complaint prior to sudden death is "not feeling well", as he described before going to bed. He did die in his sleep.
He had no history of heart disease, or high blood pressure....the preop procedures "possibly" could have attributed, depending on what they were.
This is a very, very common death, the only thing unusual about this, is the fact that Billy was a celeb.
I cannot imagine anyone "having knee surgery the next day" having not already completed their pre-op testing, which around here would include an EKG for anyone age 50 or over.
BUT there are plenty of folks who have had an EKG that showed nothing unusual and they died the next day.
I have a friend whose father was hospitalized for "a strange chest pain". They "ran every test known to man", found nothing and he was released. He died in the car on the way home from the hospital of a massive heart attack.
So go figure - sometimes things just happen.