Joan Rivers on Life Support

[aephi alum]

Originally Posted by Low D Flat

OH NO!!!

I'd love to hear what she had to say to St. Peter.

"Well, it sure ain't Temple Beth Israel." - Dot Matrix, Spaceballs (voiced by Joan Rivers)

I saw yesterday that she was moved out of the ICU. I imagine she was placed in the palliative care unit. The PCU is where a patient is placed when the doctors have given up and they want to make the patient as comfortable as possible because the patient is going to die. Family members can visit 24/7 and even sleep in a recliner in the PCU (at least that was the setup at the hospital where my mother died).

RIP Joan Rivers

[DrPhil]

Originally Posted by aephi alum

I saw yesterday that she was moved out of the ICU. I imagine she was placed in the palliative care unit. The PCU is where a patient is placed when the doctors have given up and they want to make the patient as comfortable as possible because the patient is going to die. Family members can visit 24/7 and even sleep in a recliner in the PCU (at least that was the setup at the hospital where my mother died).

That's what I thought. Thanks for explaining. The media presented it like her condition was improving. It turns out, she was still on life support and they just took her off life support because they knew her condition would not improve.

[NinjaPoodle]

Originally Posted by aephi alum

"Well, it sure ain't Temple Beth Israel." - Dot Matrix, Spaceballs (voiced by Joan Rivers)

I should have known.