Retired NYPD sergeant with coronavirus drops dead on Manhattan street hour after leaving hospital
Source: nydaily news
Retired NYPD sergeant with coronavirus drops dead on Manhattan street hour after leaving hospital
A retired NYPD sergeant left an Upper East Side hospital after he was diagnosed with coronavirus and was found dead about an hour later on the street outside, police sources said Tuesday
Yon Chang, 56, was at Lenox Hill Hospital early Tuesday and told an NYPD cop there he had just been diagnosed with the deadly virus.
He left a short time later only to collapse up the block on the traffic island at Park Ave. and E. 77th St. about 6:05 a.m. He died at the scene.
The city medical examiner will conduct an autopsy to determine his cause of death.
Read more: https://www.nydailynews.com/coronavirus/ny-coronavirus-retired-nypd-sergeant-dead-on-street-20200407-mpi5qghzargk5hiybixbfm23pu-story.html
George II
(67,782 posts)....at that very hospital. Around midnight we had a man come in thinking he was having a heart attack. The doctor ran all the tests and found nothing.
Turns out he had a big, spicy meal earlier and was probably just bloated with gas.
To be safe, the doctor admitted him anyway - that made him REALLY anxious. Even though he had no history of heart problems, two hours later he died of a heart attack. They say it was from anxiety and worry.
Demovictory9
(32,324 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,788 posts)Get rid of hate and replace it with cold loathing, which is just as determined but is a calm emotion. Hate amplifies stress and attacks rationality.
Sometimes distractions help, like entertainment or games or cooking, etc. But they can't be a crutch for too long. If other stress reduction techniques are being used, then those activities and work and housework will be more effectively done and more effective at reducing stress.
Integrate stress reduction into everything you do for maximum synergistic effect.
There is some utility to worrying as an incentive to tuning in and thinking. Of course, it is important to stay in touch and read and watch and listen to news. It is something you can do. It is hard not to worry while listening to the news.
It is possible to listen to the news calmly and taking it all in. Do some research until you understand it well to some level, however shallow or deep, as suits you. Then sort out what you can do and do it. Let the rest go. Really. It works.
For example: Do you have a relative suffering that you can't reach or help directly? (from disease or economic stress or worry) Call them, help as you are able with money or even just with empathetic words and information. Help them understand. Don't worry that you can't be there, because you can't. Accept the fact and feel peace that you have done something, done what you can.
Don't fret about what you can't do or control.
It takes practice but you get good at it by doing.
Do it by changing what you can, accepting what you can't change, and thinking about the difference (thinking some, but not too much).
warmfeet
(3,321 posts)Bernardo de La Paz
(48,788 posts)https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1014&pid=2465562
I also put it in my Journal.
LiberalArkie
(15,686 posts)canuckledragger
(1,632 posts)I have chronically crappy sleep for a variety of reasons, tried Valium a while back as a remedy and found it didn't do a thing but make me dopey, thick-headed and feeling real mean when it wore off.
No true restorative-type sleep with that stuff.
LiberalArkie
(15,686 posts)Yea it does have all that, I don't take it often. A bottle of 30 lasts me about 3.5 months.
yellowdogintexas
(22,119 posts)after taking it for a couple of weeks, she stopped because she decided she did not like herself at all.
George II
(67,782 posts)...down to the ER. I asked why, and they said he expired. We were all shocked. He was basically a healthy man (and not that old) who just had a essentially a severe case of heartburn/indigestion.
Sad.
SharonAnn
(13,767 posts)It wasnt indigestion, it was the signs of a heart attack.
area51
(11,868 posts)emmaverybo
(8,144 posts)❤️
PoindexterOglethorpe
(25,750 posts)It shows how subtle the cause of any one death might be.
ecstatic
(32,567 posts)dhill926
(16,234 posts)can affect the heart as well...
LiberalArkie
(15,686 posts)A lot of the Covid deaths may be logged as heart attack
Locrian
(4,522 posts)Thekaspervote
(32,606 posts)paleotn
(17,781 posts)Stroke or heart attack more than likely.
IronLionZion
(45,261 posts)There have been several news cases where a COVID-19 patient had a heart attack and died, including a teenager.
elias7
(3,976 posts)Myocarditis is when the virus invades the heart muscle itself causes inflammation and damage. Apparently coronavirus has been causing cases of pericarditis, myocarditis, congestive heart failure and arrhythmias such as atrial fibrillation. Some viruses do that.
This is also a rare but real complication of other viruses such as Coxsackie virus infection.
hedda_foil
(16,368 posts)I remember even seeing videos of individual bodies lying on empty streets.
DarthDem
(5,253 posts)Thanks to him for his service.
dhol82
(9,351 posts)staggering and then collapsing on the sidewalks.
It was scary then and now, even more so while happening in NYC.
Not living in good times.
Lord Ludd
(585 posts)According to historical accounts, some people caught the flu while riding the bus & died before reaching their stop. Perhaps an exaggeration, but many died the same day they got infected.
roamer65
(36,739 posts)It was a nasty, nasty bug.
Progressive Jones
(6,011 posts)She hadn't even been born yet. This was on her Father's side of the family.
Her oldest Uncle's family was taken out. He was the only survivor.
It took his wife, 3 kids, and his Mother In Law.