RIP Glenn Frey

[themanintheseersuckersuit]

Sigh

http://www.wtae.com/entertainment/eagle ... 7/37498818

will the BHBB get the last word

I make my living off the evening news
Just give me something-something I can use
People love it when you lose,
They love dirty laundry

Well, I coulda been an actor, but I wound up here
I just have to look good, I don't have to be clear
Come and whisper in my ear
Give us dirty laundry

[ghostjmf]

RIP

None of the conditions listed should have killed him unless the pneumonia was antibiotic resistant.

[Estonut]

RIP

None of the conditions listed should have killed him unless the pneumonia was antibiotic resistant.

"Glenn fought a courageous battle for the past several weeks but, sadly, succumbed to complications from rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis and pneumonia," reads a post on the band's official website.

"Complications from" can mean any number of fatal conditions.

[Bob Juch]

RIP

None of the conditions listed should have killed him unless the pneumonia was antibiotic resistant.

"Glenn fought a courageous battle for the past several weeks but, sadly, succumbed to complications from rheumatoid arthritis, acute ulcerative colitis and pneumonia," reads a post on the band's official website.

"Complications from" can mean any number of fatal conditions.

The treatment for rheumatoid arthritis suppresses your immune system, leaving you open to more severe infections.

[ghostjmf]

ABC news just gave him credit for Jackson Browne's "Take It Easy" when he only wrote the 2nd verse's ending "its a girl my L-rd in a flatbed Ford etc", he's said. But Browne did give him cowriter credit.

[Vandal]

Damn. I hate seeing some of my faves pass on.

Glenn always wanted to call a major league game and he got his wish some 30 years ago:


http://www.sportingnews.com/mlb-news/46 ... B%2FSNMain

[ghostjmf]

BobJ, the immunosupressant explanation makes a lot of sense. I keep hearing "& occasionally death" in listed effects for those arthritis & other drugs, which is why I don't even tell the docs about my arthritis. Of course, uncontrolled inflammation isn't so great either.

[T_Bone0806]

I had read that he was having health issues, this doesn't come as a complete shock, but damn...

The in memoriam segment of the Grammys is going to be an hour long...

[Estonut]

Of course, uncontrolled inflammation isn't so great either.

Neither is diagnostic accuracy when the patient is withholding full disclosure.

[Estonut]

It's a little ironic now, but the Eagles postponed their Kennedy Center Honor from December 2015 to December 2016 (due to Glenn's health), expecting they'd all be able to attend together this year.

Eagles Postpone Kennedy Center Honors Due to Glenn Frey's Surgery
Band will instead be celebrated in 2016 after guitarist's intestinal surgery requires "lengthy recovery"

[littlebeast13]

The two pop songs still most immortalized in St. Louis Cardinals lore are Kool & the Gang's "Celebration" and Glenn Frey's "The Heat Is On"....

lb13

[TheConfessor]

Sigh

http://www.wtae.com/entertainment/eagle ... 7/37498818

will the BHBB get the last word

I make my living off the evening news
Just give me something-something I can use
People love it when you lose,
They love dirty laundry

Well, I coulda been an actor, but I wound up here
I just have to look good, I don't have to be clear
Come and whisper in my ear
Give us dirty laundry

It's interesting when people die
Give us dirty laundry

[ghostjmf]

I actually have told my docs I have arthritis, I just haven't sought out treatment & they haven't offerred it. I personally don't see how that would change how they treat my diabetes, for instance.

[SportsFan68]

They're hiding it up in Telluride . . . Smuggler's Blues is far from my favorite song, but at least the back range of Colorado gets a mention.

Dang, I hate it when somebody who's not that much older than I am dies. Too young.

[Bob78164]

To paraphrase a Facebook meme . . . .

Who hired George R.R. Martin to write the plot of 2016? --Bob

[Vandal]

So many people in the entertainment field are dying younger than expected, but somehow:

Spoiler

[elwoodblues]

So many people in the entertainment field are dying younger than expected, but somehow:

There was an article in The Onion that said Keith Richards' housekeeper has gone to work expecting to find him dead every day since 1976.

[SpacemanSpiff]

An article in Yahoo today referenced how the treatments might have led to (or exacerbated the cause of) his death.

https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/news/gl ... tml?ref=gs

The group’s manager, Irving Azoff, told TheWrap that Frey’s medications played a part in his death.

“The colitis and pneumonia were side effects from all the meds,” Azoff said. “He died from complications of ulcer and colitis after being treated with drugs for his rheumatoid arthritis which he had for over 15 years.”

Since RA is considered an autoimmune disease, the treatments are usually ones that tend to suppress the immune system. Unfortunately, that might help alleviate the RA, but it opens the floodgates to other issues because (obviously) the immune system is weakened.

[Bob Juch]

An article in Yahoo today referenced how the treatments might have led to (or exacerbated the cause of) his death.

https://www.yahoo.com/celebrity/news/gl ... tml?ref=gs

The group’s manager, Irving Azoff, told TheWrap that Frey’s medications played a part in his death.

“The colitis and pneumonia were side effects from all the meds,” Azoff said. “He died from complications of ulcer and colitis after being treated with drugs for his rheumatoid arthritis which he had for over 15 years.”

Since RA is considered an autoimmune disease, the treatments are usually ones that tend to suppress the immune system. Unfortunately, that might help alleviate the RA, but it opens the floodgates to other issues because (obviously) the immune system is weakened.

Yep

[ghostjmf]

If I had been taking immunosuppressant drugs, as was strongly advised for my skin condition even though it doesn't look like any autoimmune disease known to man, & does look like a bacterial condition they won't test me for because "we don't have that in the US", I would have blamed the immune system suppression for my cancer. Instead, I blame extreme stress & something else I don't wanna mention for it.

Now, about 15 years later, my GP said they would consider the advised antibiotic for what I think I have, even though they still won't test for it. But because of the drugs I'm taking for diabetes, & my kidney stones, my kidneys get watched closely, & the antibiotic I think I should have been on all that time ago can whack your kidneys.

And my skin is already pretty destroyed, & I need my kidneys.

If its not one thing its another.

Someone must have said that.