NBC's David Bloom dies

sdw2001

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.

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.

pfflam

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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?!?!?!

shawnpatrickjoyce

This is confusing.



Did he die because of the war or did he just die during the war while in Iraq?

cosmonut

Sounds to me like his tireless work ethic got this problem started, and his war reporting set it over the top. I betcha' it wouldn't have happened (or it would have taken longer) had he not been over there.

applenut

damn, that's sad news. I enjoyed him and often watched him on weekend Today



:-(

finboy

Very sad. Bless him, he did a good job of telling the news without spinning things. I feel bad for his wife and daughters. He looked like he was enjoying himself over there, though, and I'm sure he thought it was important to tell the story -- we all should hope to go out at the top of our game.

zaphod_beeblebrox

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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.

randycat99

Blood clots are like getting hit by lightening sometimes or like a car accident that finds you, IMO. A friend of mine just up and died one summer prior to his senior year in college due to a brain anuyerism. Simply, he was just "gone" one summer, not to return to school. No build-up, no prolonged illness, just BAM- "Where's Scott? Oh, he died of an anuyerism over the summer. What?!?" To die at age 21 like this, it really strikes deep into the psyche that these things can take you literally at any time.

eugene

Randycat99 is correct. Pulmonary Embolisms and Deep Vein Thrombosis can hit any of us just like that. It's one of the most common causes of death in the US. Hereditary thrombosis usually causes it... PE's symptoms are so vague and subtle, it's hard to diagnose before it hits you.



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...

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.

scott

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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.

filmmaker2002

It's because of journalists like him that I am majoring in broadcast journalism and political science. His enthusiasm, energy, desire to get the story, and passion for the field should be shared by all journalists and should be studied by all journalism students. Sympathies to his wife and three little girls. He will be greatly missed.

709

Very sad. He seemed like a genuinely nice, friendly guy. I liked the team that he and Solidad were. Now she's going to get stuck with that guy who's upper lip never moves. \

cosmonut

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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.

sdw2001

Well, I just read he ignored military doctors' advice. They told him he may have DVT.

powerdoc

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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.

randycat99

It's possible that he fully realized the implications, but reasoned if it is his time to go, then it's time to go. Might as well go out doing what you love than living cautiously, just waiting for death to hunt you like prey. I think there are some of us here that can empathize with the notion "if it is my time to go, then it's time to go".



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.

drewprops

If he ignored the advice it was probably just a guy thing. He probably reasoned that all of that sitting down was just giving him some weird cramps/pains.



Great reporter.

Resourceful too; spearheading the assembly of the "Bloom-mobile".

The loss to NBC is immeasurable.

The loss to his family moreso.