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Healthwatch: Clive Barker writer/director, toxic shock coma (Hellraiser)
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Bermuda999
Feb 7, 2012, 9:29:50 PM2/7/12
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Clive Barker recovering from 'near fatal' case of toxic shock syndrome
by Clark Collis
Entertainment Weekly
Clive Barker is recovering from a near fatal case of toxic shock
syndrome. The British author, film director, and artist detailed his
recent brush with death in a series of tweets earlier today. “My
friends, Clive here,” Barker wrote. “I’m at home now after a while in
hospital, thanks to a nearly fatal case of Toxic Shock brought on by a
visit to my dentist. Apparently this is not uncommon. In my case the
dental work unloaded such a spillage of poisonous bacteria into my
blood that my whole system crashed, putting me into a coma. I spent
several days in Intensive Care,with a machine breathing for me. Later,
my Doctors said that they had not anticipated a happy ending until I
started to fight, repeatedly pulling out the tubes that I was
constantly gagging on. After a few days of nightmarish delusions I
woke up to my life again, tired, twenty pounds lighter but happy to be
back from a very dark place. And here in the world I intend to stay.”
The prolific Barker’s works include Books of Blood — a six volume set
of short stories — and the films Hellraiser and Lord of Illusions.
Barker concluded by tweeting, “I’ve books to write, films to make and
paintings to paint. I seem to have come home with my sight clearer
somehow, and my sense of purpose intensified. Thank you all for your
messages.”
http://news-briefs.ew.com/2012/02/07/clive-barker-toxic-shock/
by Clark Collis
Entertainment Weekly
Clive Barker is recovering from a near fatal case of toxic shock
syndrome. The British author, film director, and artist detailed his
recent brush with death in a series of tweets earlier today. “My
friends, Clive here,” Barker wrote. “I’m at home now after a while in
hospital, thanks to a nearly fatal case of Toxic Shock brought on by a
visit to my dentist. Apparently this is not uncommon. In my case the
dental work unloaded such a spillage of poisonous bacteria into my
blood that my whole system crashed, putting me into a coma. I spent
several days in Intensive Care,with a machine breathing for me. Later,
my Doctors said that they had not anticipated a happy ending until I
started to fight, repeatedly pulling out the tubes that I was
constantly gagging on. After a few days of nightmarish delusions I
woke up to my life again, tired, twenty pounds lighter but happy to be
back from a very dark place. And here in the world I intend to stay.”
The prolific Barker’s works include Books of Blood — a six volume set
of short stories — and the films Hellraiser and Lord of Illusions.
Barker concluded by tweeting, “I’ve books to write, films to make and
paintings to paint. I seem to have come home with my sight clearer
somehow, and my sense of purpose intensified. Thank you all for your
messages.”
http://news-briefs.ew.com/2012/02/07/clive-barker-toxic-shock/
BobF
Feb 7, 2012, 10:42:37 PM2/7/12
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On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 18:29:50 -0800 (PST), Bermuda999
<bermu...@aol.com> shouted from the highest rooftop:
>I’m at home now after a while in
>hospital, thanks to a nearly fatal case of Toxic Shock brought on by a
>visit to my dentist. Apparently this is not uncommon. In my case the
>dental work unloaded such a spillage of poisonous bacteria into my
>blood that my whole system crashed, putting me into a coma.
broke a tooth while eating a poached egg the next morning. The stench
was sickening. But nothing compared to the miasma that escaped from my
jaw when the tooth was pulled a week or so later.
I just wish I'd remembered to tell the emergency dentist that I don't
do very well on Augmentin and asked for Doxycylene instead. By the end
of the ten day course the infection was gone, but so was I.
--
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Tim J.
Feb 7, 2012, 11:02:50 PM2/7/12
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On Tue, 7 Feb 2012 18:29:50 -0800 (PST), Bermuda999
<bermu...@aol.com> wrote:
>I’m at home now after a while in
>hospital, thanks to a nearly fatal case of Toxic Shock brought on by a
>visit to my dentist.
I had this initial thought of a dentist saying, "Now bite down on this
>I’m at home now after a while in
>hospital, thanks to a nearly fatal case of Toxic Shock brought on by a
>visit to my dentist.
tampon. I'll be back in a few minutes."
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