NBC's David Bloom dies
Sad. Non-combat death due to a "PE"
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I was wondering when a a very visible journalist might go down. Sort of unbelieveable, really. He had a wife and three children.
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I was wondering when a a very visible journalist might go down. Sort of unbelieveable, really. He had a wife and three children.
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Originally posted by Powerdoc
It's strange that a 39 years old man die of a pulmonary emboly. Generally pulmonary emboly are a complication of a phlebitis, something occurs when people do not walk enough (during a long plane travel for example) or if they have a leg in a plaster.
what about a helmet that is too tight . . . or flak jacket?!?!?!
Did he die because of the war or did he just die during the war while in Iraq?
:-(
Originally posted by ShawnPatrickJoyce
This is confusing.
Did he die because of the war or did he just die during the war while in Iraq?
Who knows? He had a blood clot that lodged in an artery near his heart. We can only speculate what caused the clot to form. There may have been hereditary factors involved.
Whatever the reason, 39 is awfully young.
Bloom probably would have been hit with a PE somewhere down the line even if he wasn't in Iraq. Any number of things can make you physically and mentall exhausted, a spat with the common cold, heavy workload, insomnia...
Originally posted by Randycat99
I don't know if it is related, but there is even a way to die while straining on the can. Now that's a $hitty way to be found dead! I only know this because of a certain X-files episode where they mention it.
That's how The King died.
Originally posted by 709
Very sad. He seemed like a genuinely nice, friendly guy.
Yeah, I'd consider myself a pretty good judge of character just by observation. I can tell that he was like we saw him: a down to earth guy who's passionate about doing what he did. He just wanted to tell us the human element, with the story mixed in. I bet his friends and family would go on forever praising him for what a great guy/friend/husband/father he was, because I think he really was. I'd say he was my favorite person at NBC/MSNBC.
RIP Dave.
Originally posted by SDW2001
Well, I just read he ignored military doctors' advice. They told him he may have DVT.
That's make sense. Bad for him he did not listen what the doctors tell him : he will be still alive.
Aside from all of that, all of us can take it as a moral reminder to regularly take your aspirin and red wine maintenance doses. Other than that, live life to the fullest while you can because it could easily be gone tomorrow.
Great reporter.
Resourceful too; spearheading the assembly of the "Bloom-mobile".
The loss to NBC is immeasurable.
The loss to his family moreso.