American Tourist ROSS WESTCOTT CHAGNON Dies of Dysentery in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
-
- Tourist
- Posts: 16
- Joined: Sat Apr 21, 2018 7:08 am
- Reputation: 0
Re: American Tourist ROSS WESTCOTT CHAGNON Dies of Dysentery in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
obelisks wrote: ↑Sun Apr 22, 2018 2:07 pmI have I have stayed in that exact same room! I hope they change the mattressGeneral Mackevili wrote: ↑Sat Apr 21, 2018 6:59 pm LoL! I guess they have hidden the word KIYO in both English and Khmer:
So is it as “filthy” as it’s being claimed??
Re: American Tourist ROSS WESTCOTT CHAGNON Dies of Dysentery in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Believe he had gastric bypass surgery... perhaps that weakened his GI system making more susceptible to disease? Also rumored that he was robbed the week before and thats how he lost his passport. Many people think this was a murder and body was staged...
- General Mackevili
- The General
- Posts: 18418
- Joined: Tue May 06, 2014 5:24 pm
- Reputation: 3408
- Location: The Kingdom
- Contact:
Re: American Tourist ROSS WESTCOTT CHAGNON Dies of Dysentery in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Murder? Who do they think killed him?Xxpissoff wrote:Believe he had gastric bypass surgery... perhaps that weakened his GI system making more susceptible to disease? Also rumored that he was robbed the week before and thats how he lost his passport. Many people think this was a murder and body was staged...
"Life is too important to take seriously."
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
Have a story or an anonymous news tip for CEO? Need advertising? CONTACT ME
Cambodia Expats Online is the most popular community in the country. JOIN TODAY
Follow CEO on social media:
Facebook
Twitter
YouTube
Google+
Instagram
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
Have a story or an anonymous news tip for CEO? Need advertising? CONTACT ME
Cambodia Expats Online is the most popular community in the country. JOIN TODAY
Follow CEO on social media:
YouTube
Google+
Re: American Tourist ROSS WESTCOTT CHAGNON Dies of Dysentery in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Interesting. I would lean toward this. I don't think it would make him more susceptible to disease but more sensitive to the debilitating nutrient deficiency effects associated with a bout of dysentery. Those gastric bypass things leave you in a delicate health position, with your stomach effectively the size of a walnut.
Someone told me Gen Mack had this procedure done, but that's a falsehood. He actually had a bypass flap installed near the distal median of his duodenum. This allows for the direct insertion of an entire medium sized meatlovers with pineapple thereby bypassing all that tedious chewing.
- General Mackevili
- The General
- Posts: 18418
- Joined: Tue May 06, 2014 5:24 pm
- Reputation: 3408
- Location: The Kingdom
- Contact:
Re: American Tourist ROSS WESTCOTT CHAGNON Dies of Dysentery in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
He does look like he was pretty heavy before, and although his Facebook page has been deleted, I still found a love letter he wrote to Dunkin Donuts.
"Life is too important to take seriously."
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
Have a story or an anonymous news tip for CEO? Need advertising? CONTACT ME
Cambodia Expats Online is the most popular community in the country. JOIN TODAY
Follow CEO on social media:
Facebook
Twitter
YouTube
Google+
Instagram
"Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh."
Have a story or an anonymous news tip for CEO? Need advertising? CONTACT ME
Cambodia Expats Online is the most popular community in the country. JOIN TODAY
Follow CEO on social media:
YouTube
Google+
- that genius
- Expatriate
- Posts: 4064
- Joined: Wed Dec 06, 2017 7:53 am
- Reputation: 960
Re: American Tourist ROSS WESTCOTT CHAGNON Dies of Dysentery in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
I was actually staying at this very hotel the same day the man was found dead. I came downstairs and saw police everywhere but no one told me why. This hotel is NOT filthy, it is basic but clean and the staff are very nice. I've stayed there weeks at a time, more than once- it is not filthy. As a medical professional, i can say that paramedic training does not train to take care of any condition lasting longer than about 1 hour. Their job is to get you to a hospital as quickly as possible, alive, after that, hospital staff and docs take care. He probably had runny diarrhea, which causes severe loss of potassium, a very necessary electrolyte to keep ones heart beating. Replacing lost fluids with simple water will further dilute serum potassium concentrations, probably causing his heart to either freeze up completely or caused a fatal cardiac arrhythmia. Yes, this can happen in hot, tropical very quickly, and can kill you in 2-3 days. Need to replace potassium with oral rehydration salts (ORS) or via IV fluids. I keep ORS with me when I travel, they are available at any pharmacy in se asia.
Re: American Tourist ROSS WESTCOTT CHAGNON Dies of Dysentery in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
I had this and went into shock while i were in bangkok 3:40am even tho i had started taking medicine a couple days earlier and diarrea/blood had stoped. Arms and legs started fade away, pulse 150+, flashing infront of my eyes. Im very lucky i could just go outside the hotel and take a taxi to Bangkok hospital when this happened. Could have ended worse if i were in some shithole here in Cambodia.that genius wrote: ↑Sun Apr 22, 2018 2:42 pm Just as a matter of interest, surely dysentery takes a while after symptoms show to kill one?
Surely a pramedic would have known what to do?
Sounds like incorrect diagnosis to me.
Personally i waited way to long until i took care of the problem and i drank way to little water/electrolydes considering that i lost both water and blood. I had diarreha for well over a month, maybe two months but i went to the doctor first when there clearly were blood in the stool as well. After doctor filled me up i was fine and could leave the emergency room after a few hours. But i stil had a odd feeling in my body for about 2 weeks after this. Now today im feeling pretty good but i would be very careful.
With age you can loose the feeling of thirst a little so its important to drink allot even if you dont feel thirsty and you can loose blood so little at the time that its hard to spot or you simply dont take to much notice of the change in color as it happened over a long time. Then one day, as for me, the body just cant take it anymore, you passed the limit.
-
- Similar Topics
- Replies
- Views
- Last post
-
- 10 Replies
- 7670 Views
-
Last post by Doc67
-
- 6 Replies
- 3660 Views
-
Last post by Jo Ann Mazzarella
-
- 4 Replies
- 1272 Views
-
Last post by Alex
-
- 10 Replies
- 5083 Views
-
Last post by Doc67
Who is online
Users browsing this forum: Bing [Bot], Fridaywithmateo, Semrush [Bot], truffledog and 869 guests