Marie Marotta, 45, spouse of Rich Little (suicide due to migraines)
allenk...@hotmail.com
phone tonight. Had not heard anything about it. Happened the week
before last. Looked through the alt.obituaries archives but nothing
came up.
(Vancouver Sun)
July 16th
Rich Little's wife, Marie Marotta was found dead Thursday in the
bedroom of their Las Vegas home.
Marotta suffered from severe headaches and apparently took an overdose
of sleeping pills. A note was found by her bedside by Little who found
his wife unconscious.
The couple were married in 2003 and had come to Ottawa in 2007 when
Little performed at Super Ex.
"Rich was distraught and said that he had lost the love of his life.
He said she was everything to me," said Gord Atkinson, Little's
longtime friend who he had phoned to tell him the news.
"She left him a loving note and said that she couldn't go on," said
Atkinson.
"The pain she had was too excruciating and she couldn't cope with it
anymore," he said.
Atkinson said Marotta had gone to several doctors, including the Mayo
Clinic to found out why she experienced such severe headaches but no
one could determine the cause of the headaches. The pain was becoming
unbearable for Marotta and she didn't know what else to do anymore, he
added.
The couple were planning to visit Ottawa in August, he said.
--
Allen Kirshner
(the alt.music.lyrics TV theme guy)
Charlene
<allenkirsh...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> A friend of mine mentioned this to me when I was talking to him on the
> phone tonight. Had not heard anything about it. Happened the week
> before last. Looked through the alt.obituaries archives but nothing
> came up.
>
> (Vancouver Sun)
>
> July 16th
>
> Rich Little's wife, Marie Marotta was found dead Thursday in the
> bedroom of their Las Vegas home.
>
> Marotta suffered from severe headaches and apparently took an overdose
> of sleeping pills. A note was found by her bedside by Little who found
> his wife unconscious.
Very sad, and I can sympathize.
wd46
Rob Cibik
>>
>> Rich Little's wife, Marie Marotta was found dead Thursday in the
>> bedroom of their Las Vegas home.
>>
>> Marotta suffered from severe headaches and apparently took an overdose
>> of sleeping pills. A note was found by her bedside by Little who found
>> his wife unconscious.
>
> Very sad, and I can sympathize.
>
my wife has been both in-patient and out-patient at the Thomas Jefferson
University Hospital Headache Clinic in Philadelphia for the last several
years. she opted for a completely voluntary hysterectomy a couple of
years ago as means to reduce the hormone-related causes. she has been
through many different medical cocktails. we're on a first-name basis
with the ER staff at Hershey Medical Center; i think she gets miles from
their exclusive loyalty/rewards club.
all to no (permanent) avail.
if i go without caffeine for one day i want to remove my head from my
neck; that's a good day for her.
--
Do not walk behind me, for I may not lead. Do not walk ahead of me, for I
may not follow. Do not walk beside me either. Just pretty much leave me
alone.
islanders
marcus
>
> my wife has been both in-patient and out-patient at the Thomas Jefferson
> University Hospital Headache Clinic in Philadelphia for the last several
> years. she opted for a completely voluntary hysterectomy a couple of
> years ago as means to reduce the hormone-related causes. she has been
> through many different medical cocktails. we're on a first-name basis
> with the ER staff at Hershey Medical Center; i think she gets miles from
> their exclusive loyalty/rewards club.
>
> all to no (permanent) avail.
>
> if i go without caffeine for one day i want to remove my head from my
> neck; that's a good day for her.
>
I have a female friend who had migraines for years, then she read
about a gluten-free diet helping to overcome migraines. she went
gluten-free about 8-10 years ago...migraines went away.
Has your wife tried dietary changes...who knows the gluten-free diet
might be the way to go
J.D. Baldwin
In the previous article, islanders <islan...@aol.com> wrote:
> Rich Little is alive?
He gives that impression, yes.
--
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_|70|___:)=}- J.D. Baldwin |quite prepared not only to retract it, but also
\ / bal...@panix.com|to deny under oath that I ever made it.-T. Lehrer
***~~~~----------------------------------------------------------------------
marcus
Baldwin) wrote:
> In the previous article, islanders <islande...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > Rich Little is alive?
>
> He gives that impression, yes.
>
islanders
Baldwin) wrote:
>
> > Rich Little is alive?
>
> He gives that impression, yes.
> --
BRILLIANT
Brad Ferguson
<lcp...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Charlene <charlene...@gmail.com> wrote in news:938e9473-c8a1-404e-
>
> >>
> >> Rich Little's wife, Marie Marotta was found dead Thursday in the
> >> bedroom of their Las Vegas home.
> >>
> >> Marotta suffered from severe headaches and apparently took an overdose
> >> of sleeping pills. A note was found by her bedside by Little who found
> >> his wife unconscious.
> >
> > Very sad, and I can sympathize.
> >
> my wife has been both in-patient and out-patient at the Thomas Jefferson
> University Hospital Headache Clinic in Philadelphia for the last several
> years. she opted for a completely voluntary hysterectomy a couple of
> years ago as means to reduce the hormone-related causes. she has been
> through many different medical cocktails. we're on a first-name basis
> with the ER staff at Hershey Medical Center; i think she gets miles from
> their exclusive loyalty/rewards club.
>
> all to no (permanent) avail.
>
> if i go without caffeine for one day i want to remove my head from my
> neck; that's a good day for her.
Charlton Heston wrote in his first memoir that his wife Lydia suffered
for decades from debilitating migraines. They would go on for days
and, reading between the lines, the headaches affected their marriage.
Then, all of a sudden, the headaches went away permanently, just before
Heston's book was published in 1978. Lydia would have been about 54 at
that time.
I wouldn't have thought about this at all except for Charlene's mention
of the hormone-related causes of chronic migraines.
busgal
pressure. Age 50 cleared most of those.
Kris Baker
"John M." <jcm113...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
news:umjs46tsc2fe04e5c...@4ax.com...
> and I
> still get an occasional aura now (Of course, not resulting in a
> migraine.).
>
> --
>
> John M.
My daughter started getting them after her kidney transplant,
and they seem clustered around her hormonal cycle -- it's
suspected that the combination of her hormones and the
drugs she has to take, cause the migraines. But little research
has been done on that; she just knows.
I've wanted her to investigate Botox, but she's not into that.
I would be.
Kris
R H Draney
>
>Rich Little is alive?
But Canadian....r
--
Me? Sarcastic?
Yeah, right.
Charlene
wrote:
> In the previous article, islanders <islande...@aol.com> wrote:
>
> > Rich Little is alive?
>
> He gives that impression, yes.
You win.
wd46
Charlene
> "John M." <jcm1139tr...@bellsouth.net> wrote in message
>
> news:umjs46tsc2fe04e5c...@4ax.com...
>
> > On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 19:45:36 -0700 (PDT), busgal <busga...@gmail.com>
> > wrote:
>
> >>I used to get migranes at certain times of the month or if under
> >>pressure. Age 50 cleared most of those.
>
> > The same for me except more like 40. I didn't get them that often then
> > and I
> > still get an occasional aura now (Of course, not resulting in a
> > migraine.).
>
> > --
>
> > John M.
>
> My daughter started getting them after her kidney transplant,
> and they seem clustered around her hormonal cycle -- it's
> suspected that the combination of her hormones and the
> drugs she has to take, cause the migraines. But little research
> has been done on that; she just knows.
>
> I've wanted her to investigate Botox, but she's not into that.
> I would be.
I was in one of the clinical trials. I thought I was getting the
placebo, but apparently I was getting the real thing but it didn't
work. But mine weren't hormonally mediated as much as they were
weather-mediated. (I was in a clinical trial for that too - apparently
the winds that rush down the lee sides of mountain ranges can affect
migraines to a startling amount. My cure was to move a thousand miles
eastward.)
At least one study suggests that Botox works best if the pain feels
like the head is being blown apart, rather than being clamped or
crushed. But even then, only 74% of subjects with exploding pain find
relief from Botox.
wd46
La N
> I used to get migranes at certain times of the month or if under
> pressure. Age 50 cleared most of those.
I've known so many people with migraines, and I feel badly for them,
especially when they are at their worst. I am someone who has rarely ever
had a headache, so I cannot imagine how awful it must be.
I will tell you through personal experience, though, that sciatica sucks!!!
- nilita
Laurie Mann
letting the cat in our bedroom, vacuuming frequently and not holding
her, I still had anywhere from 1-5 migraines a month (it was
particularly bad about six months after we got the cat when I had
somehting like 10 in a month).
Our cat died when she was 12.
I had one migraine 6 weeks after she died. The only other migraine
I've had since then was due to being in a very dry hospital room after
surgery. It's been almost five years of being almost completely-
migraine free. Makes a huge difference.
I will never, ever get a fur-bearing pet again. We have fish now.
Having a couple of migraines a months was bad enough. I can
understand someone committing suicide if they had them all the time.
Laurie Mann
Dead People Server
http://www.deadpeople.info
Brian
<paralle...@ggmail.com> wrote:
>My daughter started getting them after her kidney transplant,
>and they seem clustered around her hormonal cycle -- it's
>suspected that the combination of her hormones and the
>drugs she has to take, cause the migraines. But little research
>has been done on that; she just knows.
>
>I've wanted her to investigate Botox, but she's not into that.
>I would be.
>
>Kris
I'm a dentist and have made a number of these. Not everyone gets
relief especially total relief but most people are helped to a great
degree. I think it is at least worth looking into.