what could happen? dr. devi, associate professor at the nyu school of medicine. we re all pulling for her. she has been overdrive recently. schedule with the new star wars movie, doing lots of interviews. she is in london promoting new memoirs. there is something no more perhaps concerning than being stricken on an airplane in mid-flight. sure. she is very, very lucky to be alive. not just for the that she was on the plane but the fact her heart stopped. they had to start cpr. means she had no pulse and the heart wasn t pumping. very few people survive something like that. this is somewhat miraculous for her. eric: they say 15 minutes before the plane got into lax. a nurse on board performing cpr. the pilots radioed ahead paramedics at gate dealt with her. reports say she is on ventilator now at the hospital. family is saying she is stable. if she stopped breathing for pen minutes and you re on a ventilator, what does that mean? there are two things.
happening with ben s heart that it wasn t pumping properly at this point, and fluid was backing up. the doctor reiterated that we need to start thinking about heart transplants. so how did ben take this? when ben and i left the appointment, he just asked me very seriously, mom, am i going to die? so i said, yes, you will, and we all do at some point. none of us really know when that is. how hard was that conversation for you? it was really heart breaking. he was just so young. and he s having to deal with difficult questions, and i just wish he didn t have to deal with that at such a young age. on the first day of summer, ben thought he would be on the lake wake boarding. i went into the room and it was similar to the time he was four, but i knew he wasn t having a
he explained what was happening with ben s heart that it wasn t pumping properly at this point, and fluid was backing up. the doctor reiterated that we need to start thinking about heart transplants. so how did ben take this? when ben and i left the appointment, he just asked me very seriously, mom, am i going to die? so i said, yes, you will, and we all do at some point. none of us really know when that is. how hard was that conversation for you? it was really heart breaking. he was just so young. and he s having to deal with difficult questions, and i just wish he didn t have to deal with that at such a young age. on the first day of summer, ben thought he would be on the lake wake boarding. i went into the room and it was similar to the time he was four, but i knew he wasn t having a
no, i don t see anything. but he said, it s there, can you see it? and he told me it made him feel really good, and he thought it was an angel. nine years later or so, when he was 13, you took him to the cardiologist. he explained what was happening with ben s heart that it wasn t pumping properly at this point, and fluid was backing up. the doctor reiterated that we need to start thinking about heart transplant. so how did ben take this? when ben and i left the appointment, he just asked me very seriously, mom, am i going to die? so i said, yes, you will, and we all do at some point. none of us really know when that is. how hard was that conversation for you? it was really heart breaking. he was just so young.
and he told me it made him feel really good, and he thought it was an angel. nine years later or so, when he was 13, you took him to the cardiologist. he explained what was happening with ben s heart that it wasn t pumping properly at this point, and fluid was backing up. the doctor reiterated that we need to start thinking about heart transplants. so how did ben take this? when ben and i left the appointment, he just asked me very seriously, mom, am i going to die? so i said, yes, you will, and we all do at some point. none of us really know when that is. how hard was that conversation for you? it was really heart breaking. he was just so young. and he s having to deal with difficult questions, and i just wish he didn t have to deal with that at such a young age.