Stanford soccer goalie Katie Meyer, 22,
found dead in her dorm posted TikTok complaining
of knee pain from leg surgery just days
ago and shared photos of her with her dad
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Melissa Koenig
&
Snejana Farberov
Original Article
Posted By: earlybird,
3/3/2022 12:56:49 PM
A 22 year-old star soccer player who was found dead in her dorm room on Tuesday had complained about knee pain just days before after grueling surgery.
In a video explaining a typical Friday in the life of a Stanford soccer goalie, Katie Meyer said she took practice easy that morning 'because my knee is very swollen.'
She had previously posted on February 1 that she was undergoing surgery on her right knee, sharing videos of her scrolling through TikTok beforehand and telling her thousands of followers that when she came out of surgery the nurses were laughing and said she 'was the most fun patient coming off of anesthesia ever.'
Sad that such can happen after "minor" surgery. As is often said, there is no minor surgery.
(Waiting for the anti-COVID vaccine crowd...)
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
red1066 3/3/2022 1:10:53 PM (No. 1088738)
There is a lot of bleeding after knee surgery, so a blood thinner wouldn't have been prescribed. Blood clot is a pretty sure reason for death.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
DVC 3/3/2022 1:17:00 PM (No. 1088746)
Will we ever get the truth about this and other young athletes' sudden deaths, after they took these mRNA shots?
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/3/2022 1:20:01 PM (No. 1088750)
Re #1, her surgery was said to have been “grueling”. There is no minor surgery, especially on a knee.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
kono 3/3/2022 1:22:44 PM (No. 1088757)
Tragic loss of a young lady with her whole life ahead of her, full of potential. May God grant eternal repose to her soul and consoling grace to her loved ones.
Moving from content to presentation -- from the relevant to the superficial -- it was hard not to get a little hung up on "before after" in the first line. Is DM sure it shouldn't be "after before"?
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/3/2022 1:23:57 PM (No. 1088760)
Apparently the Covid shot-obsessed don’t know about post-op pulmonary embolisms…
And no, the patient would not have been given blood thinner in connection with a surgery. On the contrary, anything that thins blood must be stopped well ahead of surgery - even 81mg baby aspirin, Omega 3 fish oil, etc.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/3/2022 1:28:18 PM (No. 1088768)
(hit Submit too soon)
She complained of pain and swelling in her leg. Those symptoms - along with heat - are symptoms of a clot. DVT - deep vein thrombosis. I had to have a Doppler ultrasound a while after hip surgery when I had pain in my operated side leg. We can’t rely on the DM article, but if she was a rah-rah, I’m OK type - which she sounds like - she may have decided to tough it out through pain and swelling and didn’t get needed medical attention.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
seamusm 3/3/2022 1:39:06 PM (No. 1088777)
My money is on a pulmonary embolus, a common post-op leg surgery complication. Don't have to invoke 'the dreaded vaccine' as causative however one might be tempted by yet another death in a young athlete. But the problem is that both can cause the same illness - blood clots.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
GoodDeal 3/3/2022 1:50:51 PM (No. 1088788)
Oh of course getting jabbed and boosted recently has nothing to do with it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
stablemoney 3/3/2022 1:51:15 PM (No. 1088789)
They require the shot to get the surgery, so questions should be asked and answered. Something went terribly wrong, and this should not have happened.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/3/2022 2:20:51 PM (No. 1088822)
This happens more frequently than we know. Often the victims are young. They tend to ignore symptoms. The pain doesn’t happen long before the fatal result. If she ignored the pain and tried to do even limited practice, she contributed to her own death.
As for our poster who thought “before after’ was inaccurate, read the whole sentence. It’s fine. Look at it this way:
had complained about knee pain just days before
after grueling surgery
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
KTWO 3/3/2022 3:00:00 PM (No. 1088865)
In the first DM picture and in the text the DM says her right knee was operated on. But in her picture with the Star Wars box her left knee is bandaged? So I'm puzzled and may need a second cup of coffee this morning?
The problem sounds like DVT to me. I have had two instances near my right knee; neither seemed connected to a surgery or a vaccination. Significant but intermittent pain for a few days.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
DVC 3/3/2022 4:50:49 PM (No. 1088964)
Hmm. "Grueling" knee surgery for a 22 year old. I guess people are really different.
In my late 60s I had a total knee replacement. I walked about 80 yds around the hospital (much to my amazement) about 4 hours after the surgery. I had no idea that walking the same day was possible. It is normal. This amazed me, but showed that the knee sure worked.
On day 3, I walked 3/8 of a mile and it accelerated from there. I was really impressed with the surgeon's work, and immensely pleased, of course.
Perhaps her kind of surgery was worse somehow than knee replacement, but sawing off the ends of both bones and replacing everything seemed like a pretty big deal for me. I put it off for as long as I could.
Since this was my only knee surgery, not much to compare it to, perhaps other kinds are worse. I didn't find it terribly "grueling", took no pain meds in the hospital for two days, and only tylenol after that, with a couple of exceptions, after some really difficult PT sessions a few weeks later.
Surgical error or the clot shots side effects? Combination of the two? Will we ever know.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Faithfully 3/3/2022 5:58:32 PM (No. 1089049)
Condolences to her family.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
earlybird 3/3/2022 7:10:51 PM (No. 1089142)
For the amateur doctors among us:
https://www.reference.com/world-view/symptoms-blood-clots-after-arthroscopic-knee-surgery-597962dca591a2b8
Continuing education.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
DVC 3/4/2022 1:09:30 AM (No. 1089372)
Re #15. Sounds like this may be why they get knee replacements up walking ASAP, literally hours after surgery, and encourage walking regularly. And I had to wear pretty uncomfortable very tight stockings on both legs for 8 weeks, apparently to keep the blood from pooling in the legs. Walking was recommended frequently, and I did as I was told by docs and PT pros. And, was on blood thinners for a week or two, also.
Went to Europe on vacation 8 weeks after, and wore the compression stockings on the flight and made a point of walking the aisle every two hours for a bit.
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Sepsis? Pulmonary embolism from post-op clot? The latter most likely - a post op clot took our family member in less than a few hours after surgery.