Did you know that Jeremy London's wife was also in Celebrity Rehab? I wonder if she was going to be a surprise once the season started or something. Anyway, while cameras were rolling on Sunday she suffered a brain hemorrhage and was taken to the hospital. She was released yesterday. Does that seem really fast to anyone else? Three days? If it is something to do with my brain, I think I would be willing to stay as long as necessary or even longer.
Apparently Melissa was having really serious withdrawal problems prior to the brain hemorrhage. Umm, I thought she said she was off drugs. Guess not. I wonder if during the season Jeremy will come clean about the whole kidnapping thing. In any event, I hope Melissa is back in the house and still drying out and feels better.
Yes, I knew she was going to be on CR. Can't remember now where I read that.
ReplyDeleteDamn! That is some heavy withdrawals... I mean a brain hemorrhage?!?
I hope they straighten up. At least for the sake of that adorable child. I just loved Jeremy in Party of Five..
Young 'uns, take heed: this is your brain on drugs.
ReplyDeleteIt's possible to have a mild brain hemorrhage. Three days would be reasonable if that's what happened. As soon as I read the headline, I knew it was drug related. Very few other reasons a young person would have a brain bleed. Sad.
I hope she gets better. Sounds really bad. I think if the hemorrhage was life threatening in any way the doctors wouldn't have released her so she must have been well enough to go.
ReplyDeleteJeremy will never admit to faking the kidnapping since the legal ramifications are too high if he does.
ReplyDeleteYes, it's unfortunate but they do release you from the hospital that early. A friend of mine had a carotid aneurysm and they performed a craniotomy. She was released less than FIVE DAYS after surgery (which went on longer than anticipated due to the aneurysm being worse than pre-op testing showed!) Trust me, they don't keep you in for anything these days.
ReplyDeleteOn top of their addictions the two of them have one hell of an on-again-off-again thing going on that is really volatile. I think that it's a bad idea for them to be in rehab together. Trying to beat addiction AND repair your marriage is asking too much of anyone.
ReplyDelete@Gladys-I know alcohol addicts have seizures during withdrawal - is this kind of the same thing?
ReplyDeletesomething tells me they aren't monitoring their patients well enough during their detox if they have so many patients going to the er there. i've heard some less than stellar reviews about the place and can understand why a lot of celebrities turn down the show.
ReplyDeletemakes for great tv tho!
@RQ: Kind of like that. She could have had seizures as the result of drug withdrawal. Or--her blood pressure could have spiked because she was withdrawing or because she's completely screwed up her cardiovascular system. Either way, if she had a stroke (basically a brain hemorrhage), and it was mild, 3 days would be sufficient, as long as she didn't have any residual neurological deficits.
ReplyDelete@Ms. Leigh: At least from watching the show, CR participants have more medical attention than in most rehab places I know. The doctor visits once a day in most inpatient rehab places, does group therapy, and leaves. The nurses and psych techs are overworked. On CR, there's Shelly, plus another person usually, for six patients. Dr. Ego visits whenever there's a problem (not true at any other place I've ever known). They acted quickly on all the little things, as well as the big things, with past participants, or at least VH1 made it seem that way. I don't know--never been to the place myself. I went to Betty Ford. (I kid, I kid).
@timebob
ReplyDeleteAgreed. Filing a false police report is serious business.
@gladiskravitz i do agree with you on the part about having staff there, but i'm more curious about detox meds- i've only witnessed someone coming off painkillers so that's all i'm really going by and i know her docs put her on meds to substitute the opiates, a med for the depression and i think there was a 3rd med for the side effects. i know a lot of bipolar meds are also used for epilepsy, so wouldn't they use them for the other patients to prevent the seizures and other side effects?
ReplyDeleteInitiating a false police report is only a misdemeanor here. For whatever that is worth.
ReplyDelete@Ms. Leigh: We're CR junkies around here, and Sober House, too. I've watched far more of it than I'm willing to acknowledge publicly, but in answer to your question, Mike Starr on the last season of CR and SH seemed almost unconscious with the amount of medication they gave him. I was surprised sometimes that he could talk--he was super sedated. Psych meds are a delicate thing--a little too much and breathing becomes completely questionable. A little too little and the patient gets agitated. In Ms. London's case, they probably DIDN'T realize how much more sedation she needed to keep her blood pressure under control. It's hard to know, though.
ReplyDeleteNo matter what, though, it sounds like Jeremy's story of getting kidnapped (before talking to the palm tree outside a hotel) may be just a tad of a story. And he and his wife need whatever help they can get from CR or any other rehab place.
yeah, i was accused of being an alcoholic when i had a seizure 3 years ago. resident on call said it was withdrawal when he overheard a conversation i had with a nurse. still don't know what caused it, but never had another one, so, whatever.
ReplyDeletei honestly don't know who these people are, and i would have poo-pooed the whole stroke thing and said seizure if gladys hadn't weighed in. really? they let them go that soon?
shit. my doc was pissed that they didn't admit me (go figure, after spending 8 hours (at least) on a gurney, and i've got 90/10 insurance!
but i have no idea how drugs/alcohol work on the brain. somebody needs to get cleaned up, it wouldn't hurt, for sure.
what's the relapse rate for CR?
Wow. A meth-head drug addict suffered a physical malady as a direct result of shooting up, snorting, and smoking god knows how many drugs over a period of years. What a shocker.
ReplyDeleteSorry, there are too many innocent people in this world who die as the result of things that they didn't bring on themselves.
I couldn't care less if this chick lives or dies. I'm sure her meth-head hubby is right behind her.