Stephen Hawking "Very" Ill!

[3113]

Professor Stephen Hawking, one of the world's most famous scientists, is "very ill" in hospital, Cambridge University said today. Professor Hawking, who works at the university, was undergoing tests at Addenbrooke's Hospital, Cambridge. A university spokesman said the 67-year-old physicist, who is best known for his book A Brief History of Time, was taken to Addenbrooke's by ambulance. "Professor Hawking is very ill," he added.

Professor Hawking suffers from motor neurone disease and is wheelchair bound. He speaks with the help of a voice synthesiser. He developed symptoms of the disease while studying in the 1960s and is one of the world's longest surviving sufferers.

More here though really that's all the report says, no details.

Given is age and condition....

 

[jomar]

Shame. Best to him...I'm currently working my way through his book.

 

[shereads]

Missed this and posted a duplicate thread. Sorry about that.

 

[BOSTONFICTIONWRITER]

Here is a man so afflicted with a serious handicap but so brilliant that when engrossed in what he had to say, you forgot he was handicapped. I loved listening to his lectures on black holes.

 

[Samandiriel]

Missed this and posted a duplicate thread. Sorry about that.

You're in a different dimension hon, that's all.

Any news yet?

What a brilliant man.

 

[shereads]

What a brilliant man.

If only science could discover how a man trapped inside a failing body has managed to side-step self-pity so gracefully. Has anyone ever lived more fully?

 

[3113]

You're in a different dimension hon, that's all.

Any news yet?

This is the latest. The part about him being "comfortable" is promising, but one never knows, not until and unless he's discharged, fully recovered, from the hospital:

Hawking has been fighting a chest infection for several weeks and was being treated at Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, the university city northeast of London, the university said. "Professor Hawking is very ill," said Gregory Hayman, the university's head of communications. "He is undergoing tests. He has been unwell for a couple of weeks."

Later in the afternoon, Hayman said Hawking was "now comfortable but will be kept in hospital overnight."

 

[slyc_willie]

When Hawking was first diagnosed, it was presumed he wouldn't last to see the eighties. The man has a powerful will to live.

Personally, I think he'll stick around long enough to finish his new theory.

Hang in there, Hawk.

 

[shereads]

When Hawking was first diagnosed, it was presumed he wouldn't last to see the eighties. The man has a powerful will to live.

Personally, I think he'll stick around long enough to finish his new theory.

Hang in there, Hawk.

He might have finished it already, someplace else.



"Anything that can happen, will happen, has happened and is happening now."

 

[slyc_willie]

He might have finished it already, someplace else.



"Anything that can happen, will happen, has happened and is happening now."

Last I heard, he had a grad student helping him by acting as ghost writer, following his last public appearance when he adjusted his black hole theory. From the sound of things, it was taking a verrrrry long time for the student to transpose what Hawking told him.

 

[MagicaPractica]

The way I understood his disease was that it caused a break down in the connections of the brain. I always was amazed that he has lasted as long as he has and assumed it was because his mind simply created connections faster than the ones that were breaking down. Does anyone have a better understanding of what afflicts him and could explain it?

 

[slyc_willie]

The way I understood his disease was that it caused a break down in the connections of the brain. I always was amazed that he has lasted as long as he has and assumed it was because his mind simply created connections faster than the ones that were breaking down. Does anyone have a better understanding of what afflicts him and could explain it?

ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. It cripples the body and makes almost every voluntary motor function gradually more difficult until he can't move. Hawking's been a quadraplegic for decades now.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. It cripples the body and makes almost every voluntary motor function gradually more difficult until he can't move. Hawking's been a quadraplegic for decades now.

One remarkable thing is that he managed to father three children and acquire a mistress to go along with his wife after he was confined to a wheelchair. I'm certainly glad he passed on that remarkable DNA.

 

[MagicaPractica]

ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's disease. It cripples the body and makes almost every voluntary motor function gradually more difficult until he can't move. Hawking's been a quadraplegic for decades now.

Thank you. I was looking for an explanation of howthe disease did that. This seems to be the best one I've seen to date, but it's from 2006 so I don't know how up to date it is. They offer thoughts on it but they don't seem to really know. http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1170097-overview

 

[slyc_willie]

One remarkable thing is that he managed to father three children and acquire a mistress to go along with his wife after he was confined to a wheelchair. I'm certainly glad he passed on that remarkable DNA.

One way or the other, right?

 

[MagicaPractica]

One remarkable thing is that he managed to father three children and acquire a mistress to go along with his wife after he was confined to a wheelchair. I'm certainly glad he passed on that remarkable DNA.

It has sounded to me like he got an early diagnosis due to the genetic predisposition, which may be part of why he has survived quite so long after diagnosis. But not a big part of it.

 

[Samandiriel]

This is the latest. The part about him being "comfortable" is promising, but one never knows, not until and unless he's discharged, fully recovered, from the hospital:

I'm not a holy person, but I think a group prayer is in order for a man who never let his 'handicap' keep him from being who he is...he's a role model for many. Bless you Mr. Hawkings.

 

[voluptuary_manque]

Thank you. I was looking for an explanation of howthe disease did that. This seems to be the best one I've seen to date, but it's from 2006 so I don't know how up to date it is. They offer thoughts on it but they don't seem to really know. http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1170097-overview

I suspect that no much has changed in the last two years. I haven't seen any references to any breakthroughs or new information and in this house we follow that stuff pretty regularly.

 

[MagicaPractica]

I suspect that no much has changed in the last two years. I haven't seen any references to any breakthroughs or new information and in this house we follow that stuff pretty regularly.

Thank you, bear. I used to follow that stuff but lost access to all that stuff a few years back with a change of work and my computer is not fast.

 

[TE999]

I'm not a holy person, but I think a group prayer is in order for a man who never let his 'handicap' keep him from being who he is...he's a role model for many. Bless you Mr. Hawkings.

What Sam said.

 

[shereads]

He's said to be recovering from the lung infection.



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