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RIP Grant Imahara
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VK3DRB:

--- Quote from: tom66 on July 14, 2020, 06:25:59 am ---RIP :(

Life is too short sometimes

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All the more reason we should not waste ours. We have 24 hours allotted to each of us every day. How we use them is up to us. Any time not used wisely in each 24 hours is forfeited forever. People like Grant live life well. We should do likewise. Quite relevant would be the remarkable Twilight Zone episode called The Changing of the Guard, which was released on 1st June 1962. It demonstrates the positive impact we can make to others lives without us even realising it.
dr.diesel:
He was also in the fan series Star Trek Continues, which was fantastic.
langwadt:
2020 is just .... :(
rsjsouza:
I just saw it on the news. Truly saddened by this. RIP.
Tom45:

--- Quote from: Rick Law on July 14, 2020, 08:30:48 am ---Regarding warning or signs -- I think it is perhaps case dependent, and likely the most significant factor is where exactly the
With his sudden death, we (on the project team) did wonder had the doctors been able to narrow down to aneurysm sooner, would he still be around.

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My brother had an apparent stroke but the local hospital didn't find anything wrong and released him in a few days. Then a few months later he had another stroke. This time the local hospital put him on a helicopter to the medical school an hour away. The diagnosis was a hemorrhagic stroke. The less common kind where the brain springs leaks, as opposed the common strokes from blockages.

He recovered from that and was released. During that they did scans that showed signs of quite a few places that had sprung a leak in the past.  Also, an aneurysm that was ready to burst at any time. He later had surgery to repair that.

The odds on hemorrhagic strokes are bad. In round numbers 50% die before reaching a hospital, 25% die in the hospital, and most of the remaining 25% don't survive a year. My brother has amazingly beat those odds and is alive and still working at age 72. He sometimes hesitates trying to come up with words while speaking. But at 74 I have that problem too with no history of a stroke.

So yes, there are good tools to identify and correct brain aneurysms. The problem is that brain aneurysms are rather rare so doctors don't think of scanning for aneurysms in normal circumstances. 
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