Ephraim, I went through this almost exactly a year before that in 2015. My dad had some form of stroke and it was probably 10-15 minutes until the emergency doctor arrived and got his heart beating again. He passed away about 12 hours later on the next morning, and, frankly, we were grateful for not having to go through weeks of ICU. I had immediately called my best friend, a neuropsychologist who works with people who suffered severe stroke-induced damage. He said that if the doesn’t get oxygen for that long, a major recovery is pretty much impossible. Even if my dad (he was 86) had ‘woken up’ again, he basicaly would have been gone.
So, if Carrie Fisher’s cardiac arrest lasted as long as the reports described it, I’m not really optimistic. :/ And ‘stable’ doesn’t mean anything. Would love to be wrong about it. Her status in pop-culture aside, based on the interviews I’ve seen she seems like a really funny and witty person.
This is by far my favorite picture of Ms. Fisher. It was taken during the original production of SW and appears in The Making of Star Wars. So beautiful and full of life.
She was my first female hero. Someone as a figurehead and person I cared for. As a male she embodied everything I’d hoped to see from my sisters and female friends growing up. To become strong, independent, and intelligent. She was too young, and had too much life left to live. :(
Episode 8 is going to be really hard to watch. Fortunately, she already filmed her scenes for the next movie, but it does mean they’ll probably need to rethink Episode 9 if she was supposed to be in that. But yeah… Seeing her on the big screen as General Leia in Episode 8 is going to be bittersweet.
