It was exactly seven whole days ago that we all heard Joan Rivers was rushed to Mount Sinai Hospital after having trouble breathing following a throat procedure done there. Shortly after, we were informed that her “having trouble breathing,” was due to the fact that she went into cardiac arrest. Updated from that, we were informed that she was in a medically induced coma but resting comfortably.
Unfortunately the world got news today, that at 1:17 p.m., Joan Rivers died [as a result].
Supposedly, sources close to insiders of this terrible news stated that the family are carefully considering a lawsuit because the healthy 81 year-old woman went in for the routine throat procedure and was administered a lethal dose of Propofol which they believe, may be linked to the reason why she went into cardiac arrest.
The staff at the clinic where the procedure was performed (Yorkville Endoscopy Clinic) told the NYC authorities that Joan Rivers had stopped breathing “just as [they] were putting her under anesthesia for the (routine) procedure.”
According an insider of the investigation, when paramedics arrived, they were met by doctors frantically trying to resuscitate Rivers by “shoving a tube down her throat.” Although, according to that insider, she was “in very bad shape,” the paramedics were able to get her breathing again (after administering CPR). From there, she was transported to Mount Sinai.
After days of being in a medically induced coma, although “resting comfortably;” Melissa was told that pretty much nothing further could be done. After which, she was forced with the decision as to whether or not she would take her mother off life support…
Yorkville Endoscopy Clinic is being investigated to determine if Rivers was given too high a dose of [the same drug that killed Michael Jackson] which, according to reports, is routinely used for
