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    Former child star Patty Duke dies at 69

    -Oscar-winning actress Patty Duke, who hit the trifecta of stardom with her turns on TV, in the movies, and on Broadway, is dead. She was 69.

    The Queens-born daughter of a troubled cashier and alcoholic cab driver, Duke overcame a dark childhood to become one of the Hollywood's most respected actresses and president of the Screen Actors Guild from 1985 to 1988.

    Duke rocketed to fame in the 1960's as the star of "The Patty Duke Show," which ran for 104 episodes over three seasons, and in which she played her rambunctious self as well as her more demure "identical cousin."

    Diagnosed with bipolar disorder in 1982, Duke devoted her later years to championing mental health programs and raising her three sons, two of whom — Sean Astin and Mackenzie Astin — followed in their mother's footsteps and became actors as well.

    Duke was married four times; she is survived by her last husband, Michael Pearce, and their son, Kevin Pearce.

    Born Anna Marie Duke in Dec. 14, 1946, Duke was one of three children. Her career was launched at age 8 when her mother, unable to cope with the kids, turned her over to talent scouts John and Ethel Ross, who saw gold in the perky young girl...

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    Unhappy Patti Duke Dies at 69

    Patty Duke, Oscar-winning actress and the star of an eponymous TV show, died this morning, ABC News has confirmed.

    According to her rep, Mitchell Stubbs, the cause of death was sepsis from a ruptured intestine. The actress, whose real name was Anna Pearce, was 69.

    "She was a wife, a mother, a grandmother, a friend, a mental health advocate and a cultural icon," Stubbs added in a statement. "She will be greatly missed."

    Duke became a star as a teenager when she appeared as Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker" on Broadway alongside Anne Bancroft. The play was later turned into a film, for which Duke won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1963.

    However, off-screen, she was struggling. When she was 7, she said two managers, John and Ethel Ross, took over her career, and gave her her famous stage name, allegedly telling her, "Anna Marie is dead; you're Patty now." In her memoir, the actress also accused them of taking advantage of her, and squandering her earnings, according to a 1987 article in the Philadelphia Inquirer.

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    I'll never forget her portrayal as Neely O'Hara in "Valley of the Dolls" and of Helen Keller in "The Miracle Worker", her finest performances IMHO. RIP ��
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    I merged the threads.

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    Quote Originally Posted by A.J. View Post
    I merged the threads.
    I looked for another thread because I thought surely someone had posted it. Where was it?

    Or were we posting at the same time?
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    Krystian's thread was in the news forum and she posted this morning - 12 full hours before yours.

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    Quote Originally Posted by A.J. View Post
    Krystian's thread was in the news forum and she posted this morning - 12 full hours before yours.
    WOW! My apologies. I wonder why I didn't see it? I looked real good before I started my thread. Hmmm? Odd. :Hmm:
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    Patty Duke’s Death Announcement Is A Milestone For Sepsis Awareness


    Oscar-winning actress Patty Duke, star of “The Patty Duke Show” and the Broadway play and film “The Miracle Worker,” died of sepsis from a ruptured intestine on Tuesday.

    Simple though it may seem, her death announcement is a major milestone for the sepsis awareness movement, said Thomas Heymann, executive director of the Sepsis Alliance. The more people are aware of this condition, Heymann said, the stronger their likelihood of saving their own lives or the lives of their loved ones.

    “The fact that they said Patty Duke’s cause of death was sepsis is relatively new,” Heymann said. “It very often would have been left as a complication of surgery or an infection, but it’s not a complication — it’s sepsis.”

    Sepsis, a reaction to infection that leads to systemic organ failure, kills more than 258,000 Americans every year, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, making it the ninth-leading cause of disease-related deaths in the country. While most people can fully recover from sepsis, some survivors are left with permanent organ damage or missing limbs due to amputation.

    Despite these alarming facts, less than half of Americans have even heard of sepsis, according to polls conducted by the Sepsis Alliance in partnership with official polling companies. In a 2015 online survey of 2,000 participants, only 47 percent of Americans were aware of sepsis. Meanwhile, 86 percent knew about Ebola and 76 percent knew about malaria — two diseases that are much rarer in the United States.

    People who have sepsis experience organ dysfunction caused by their body’s overreaction to an initial infection, whether viral, bacterial or fungal. This overreaction is overwhelming for the body, and can lead to death. It’s most common in people with compromised immune systems, like the very young, the very old and those with chronic diseases like AIDS, cancer, or diabetes. But people can also develop sepsis from a simple scrape, wound or burn that was not properly cleaned.

    Sepsis is also on the rise: It was the primary or secondary cause of 1.6 million hospitalizations in 2009, more than double the sepsis-related hospitalizations in 1993, according to a report from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. And it was the single most expensive reason for hospitalizations in 2009, adding up to nearly $15.4 billion in hospital costs.
    Sepsis can hide in plain sight

    In one highly publicized, tragic story, a 12-year-old boy named Rory Staunton scraped his arm while playing with friends in 2012 and eventually began vomiting and complaining of pain in his leg. Doctors sent him home with Tylenol, but three days later he died from severe septic shock.

    Rory’s case highlights a major difficulty doctors face: Sepsis symptoms can be hard to discern from those of a simple infection that could go away on its own.

    What’s more, sepsis is often thought of as a hospital-acquired infection, making doctors more likely to look for it among hospital patients and the chronically ill. But about two-thirds of cases are first documented by the emergency department, which means that they were acquired outside of a hospital setting, explains Dr. Craig Coopersmith, professor of surgery at Emory University School of Medicine and the former president of the Society of Critical Care Medicine.

    To avoid deaths by sepsis, Coopersmith has two basic rules for physicians: If a person has an infection, check for organ dysfunction. And if they have organ dysfunction, check for sepsis.

    Context also counts for a lot when spotting the signs of sepsis. In addition to symptoms such as high fever, elevated heart rate, or abnormal white blood cell count, a medical history of pneumonia, infection, wounds or urinary tract infections could provide important clues for health care providers, notes a sepsis review published in the journal Nursing Practice.

    Other clues, like a patient’s cancer and chemotherapy history — known factors that can suppress the immune system — are stronger clues that an infection could actually be sepsis, notes ABC News.
    You could save your own life, simply by knowing what sepsis is

    The signs of sepsis can be broken down in a simple acronym, notes the CDC.

    S - Shivering, fever, or feeling very cold
    E - Extreme pain or general discomfort, as in “worst ever”
    P - Pale or discolored skin
    S - Sleepy, difficult to wake up or confused
    I - “I feel like I might die”
    S - Shortness of breath

    Once spotted, doctors treat sepsis by addressing the initial infection, supporting the body’s organs and preventing drops in blood pressure and oxygen levels. But time is of the essence when it comes to sepsis treatment. A 2006 study analyzing over 2,000 septic patients found that over six hours, each hour of a delay in treatment was linked to a 7.6 percent decrease in survival, but treatment within the first hour of a documented drop in blood pressure, a tell-tale sign of sepsis, was linked to an 80 percent survival rate.

    Because of this, if you suspect you have sepsis — perhaps after a surgery, or because of a prior infection or wound that isn’t healing well — it’s important to actually say the word “sepsis” to your doctors, the CDC says. They advise patients to say, “I am concerned about sepsis,” in order to get the most timely treatment possible for a potential infection complication. Your life could depend on it, says Coopersmith.

    “If you get sepsis, you have a higher chance of dying than if you have a heart attack, stroke or trauma,” Coopersmith said. “There is no question that increasing awareness of sepsis would save lives.”



    This post has been updated to reflect that a high white blood cell count, as well as a low count, can be an indicator of sepsis.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Valiant Woman View Post
    WOW! My apologies. I wonder why I didn't see it? I looked real good before I started my thread. Hmmm? Odd. :Hmm:
    NP.... I've done it, too.

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    My Mom died from Sepsis a year and a half ago.

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    I used to like her show, remember the theme song?


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