RIP Kyle Busch
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dixiehack
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Option B. It is absolutely gross publicity chasing.
tapintoamerica
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It has always amazed me that kids under the age of 16 can legally drive cars and even fly airplanes under certain conditions.
2muchcoffeeman
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The former, probably.
Brexton Busch, son of Kyle, to race Late Model in 2026
And you're surprised when KyBu's son appears to have inherited his father's talent?
waterytart
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One of his points seems to be that it’s not a rare talent. Gibbs, Hendrick, et al., are going to be relieved to learn they can stop paying millions to their drivers.
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Almost happened to my dad a year and a half ago. My mom called me and said that Pops was mentally off. I got there, and he was loopy, had slept in his clothes and pissed himself. I immediately put him in the car and went to the emergency room, and he was on IV antibiotics in less than 90 minutes. He spent nine days in the hospital, but luckily it all turned out ok.
maumann2
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Yeah, Gwen started coughing up blood on Sunday night of the 2017 Masters and complaining about pain in her side and chest. And when we got her to the hospital Monday morning, we found out it was basically a coin-flip for living or dying. What's what caught my attention when it happened so fast with Busch. The only thing that saved her was the ER doctor's quick thinking to stabilize her vitals and intubate her. We were just joking around about her not being able to breathe, not knowing how close I was to being a widower.
As it was, she was in ICU for 10 days and still has issues with stamina and fibromylagia, related to that one pneumonia/sepsis episode. But she's still alive.
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Geez that's terrifying, I'm glad she's OK.
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Larry Nelson took up golf at 21 when he got back from Vietnam and went on to win three majors, but yes I’d agree that we’re not gonna see another one of those, ever.
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When Tim Russert died, NBC hired his kid to cover Congress. He bailed after a few years when all the people who talked to him because they liked his old man started dying off.
Maybe I am naive, but if you’re rich in America, you should have the best health care. You just don’t die from pneumonia at 41 without totally ignoring those around you. I guess you think you’re invincible when you do what he did for a living.
It’s sad and avoidable, but maybe I’m wrong.
Yikes
maumann2
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I went to bed before she did, and had no idea it had progressed to that stage because at the time she told me it felt like she had pulled a muscle in her back and felt crummy. It wasn't until the morning that she showed me the bloody Kleenex and off we went. She wasn't struggling to breathe until that point.
Unfortunately, living in the mountains means we're 45 miles to the nearest ER, so I wish I had recognized the signs the night before. Every hour with sepsis decreases your chances of survival. We were both naive about the dangers, especially as all her vitals crashed once we got there.
The culture never did grow a definitive cause for the pneumonia, and at one point, the staff thought it might be Legionaire's. The key turning point was when they called in a surgeon to pierce the membrane between the chest wall and her lungs -- right about at the spot where she felt the pain -- and collected nearly .7 mil of fluid. Her condition rapidly improved from that point and she was off the ventilator about three days later. She could maintain an oxygen level above 90 percent with additional O2 after being moved to a regular room.
And no, I really appeciate your concern.
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Here me roar
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Sepsis can move really fast.
Looks like a few people made bad choices here.
Kyle Busch had pneumonia for ‘days to weeks’ before he died, death certificate says
Kyle Busch had pneumonia for ‘days to weeks’ before he died, death certificate says
The precociousness with the kid kind of goes without saying, given that Kyle was racing men so early that NASCAR basically had to change its rules about age eligibility (I also seem to remember him running afoul of tobacco sponsorship issues because he was too young to appear with those cars).
Access to lots and lots of money has probably not hurt the kid's development either. And as for having a brand and a number in your teens, well, something something Austin Dillon.
It really is so damned sad, but I think when he died it was pretty obvious to me that it was related to what caused him to call for the doctor at Watkins Glen.
Access to lots and lots of money has probably not hurt the kid's development either. And as for having a brand and a number in your teens, well, something something Austin Dillon.
It really is so damned sad, but I think when he died it was pretty obvious to me that it was related to what caused him to call for the doctor at Watkins Glen.
He was supposed to race a truck at Fontana in 2001. It was part of a weekend with CART and Marlboro was sponsoring the entire weekend program IIRC. Instead of advocating for change to the master settlement or understanding that it was a one-time confluence of events, NASCAR decided to ban 16- and 17-year-olds from the national series, which didn't need to happen.
