Woman dies after swim at Coronado Springs Resort

[remmy_7]

This is very sad, and what makes it even more sad IMO is that she was on vacation enjoying life and it had to end like that. I wish someone could have seen her in time to save her life.

 

[Peepster]

I have much sympathy for the victim's family, but buckylarue said it just right!

 

[mrsltg]

I am surprised at the wisecracks about this situation. This woman is dead! Is that funny??? It doesn't matter if it happened at Disney, in your own back yard, or wherever. You need to think about her family greiving. I'm sure when she hopped into that pool her family never thought that they would never see her again,she was doing something we all do, enjoying her vacation. I just can't beleive that some people find this amusing!

Ok. No one finds her death amusing. However, finding humor, even in the saddest situation, is not unreasonable. I had to make arrangements for the disposition of my own son's body. Did I find that funny? Uh, no. However, when we had decided upon cremation and the funeral director gave us a paper we had to sign, stating we understood that cremation was final, and that once it was done, they couldn't undo it, we laughed our butt's off!! Clearly the situation was not funny, but a detail of it was. It's okay to laugh even when you're sad.

 

[BTown]

I'm with the OP. I think this is evidence that Disney either tone down the intensity of their pools, or get rid of them all together. Perhaps a nice foam play area instead.

 

[maddhatir]

My father passes away in 1984 and he owned his own business......well after about a week or 2- of course DMom and I had to start running things....

when people would call for him we had to tell them the news of his death- however, after quite some time people would call (Solicitors i am sure) for him and tell us well- he told us to give him a call-- just to make them feel like jerks- i had to add, thats funny becasue he died several months ago, BOY that made them hang up the phone in a hurry!

we would get a lot of calls like that-- me and mom would joke that we wanted so badly to tell these people you can reach him at 1-800-HEAVEN!!!

SORRY BUT I AGREE WITH plutolovr's sense of humor!

if you dont like it- oh well- i am never going to change of course people do not think it is funny the poor woman died- but sometimes the stranger people's unfortunate curcumstances are .......you tend to make light of it.

maybe some of us think it is strange that people can be SOOO serious about things that WE dont---
to each his own.

 

[badbrad25]

I've never been trained on the defib.. but was it even a good idea to send electrical currents through a person who was soaking wet? Wouldn't it like electrocute her? Maybe I'll take the training next year.

As for soupy11's comment about someone being trained in the defib: I don't know if it's required for them to be trained it in, but if there is a nurse, the nurse would be more qualified to use the defib than someone who was only trained. And even if there was someone trained with it, it doesn't mean they have to use it. For example, I worked in daycare and I had to be CPR trained, but I would never perform CPR (yeah, I'm a bad person).

Defibs these days are extremly easy to use, I would think that most children could follow the directions to apply and use a AED. So, no you dont need to be trained to use a AED. As for the water and the electricity, all i'd be worried about is to try and somewhat dry the person off because the pads that are applied to the persons chest will have a very hard time sticking to the person and therefore deliverying the shock to the person.

 

[helenm29]

YO Plutolovr....SO NOT COOL! That poor women was probably someones Daughter, Mom or sister...how would you feel?

 

[medicgirl_911]

I've never been trained on the defib.. but was it even a good idea to send electrical currents through a person who was soaking wet? Wouldn't it like electrocute her? Maybe I'll take the training next year.

As for soupy11's comment about someone being trained in the defib: I don't know if it's required for them to be trained it in, but if there is a nurse, the nurse would be more qualified to use the defib than someone who was only trained. And even if there was someone trained with it, it doesn't mean they have to use it. For example, I worked in daycare and I had to be CPR trained, but I would never perform CPR (yeah, I'm a bad person).

From an ER nurse perspective:
Hmm will it electrocute her??? Isn't she already dead? But seriously, Optimally you would want to quickly dry the front of her chest off before applying the defib pads. If a puddle of water/or is in wet sand has been formed around the body, position the defibrillator as best you can in a dry place and do not stand in the puddle of water, or quickly move the body to a dry location.
An automatic defibrillator will not shock everyone! It can only be used when the heart is in ventricular fibrillation or ventricuar tachycardia. Which means that the heart is still producing some of its own elecrical impulses. These two rthymns are not producing any actual blood flow from the heart, but can hopefully be shocked into a rthymn that produces some type of cardiac output. An actual hearth that is not having any type of electrical activity is called asystole--the flat line. AED's will not shock this rythmn. Medications administered by medical personell and CPR can sometimes revert this.
Please change your mind about not administering CPR. I understand the fear of disease, but worst case scenatio, at least do chest compressions! I carry a pocket mask, they are just a small little pouch that goes onto your keyring. They only cost a couple of dollars. I am sure if it was one of your family members, you would not want to learn that no one tried to do CPR, just stood around and waited for the paramedics! Everyone please take a CPR class, a few hours spent could save someones life. If not and you are ever in the situation, and have never been in a CPR class, or it has been a long time don't be afraid to at least try. Something is better than nothing!

 

[beattyfamily]

How sad. That poor family. I feel just as bad for this family as I did for the deaths that occured after riding Disney rides (so far none of the well-publicized deaths have been Disney's fault).

It just shows that when it's your time, it's your time. You can die anywhere at anytime.

I'll bet there are many deaths and births at Disney each year but only the ones that happen shortly after riding a ride get well-publicized. Disney is a big place visited by thousands of people each day.

I don't blame the OP one bit for his comment and I don't see it as insensitive at all. I haven't seen one 'wisecrack'.

 

[winniethepoohsmom]

We have stayed at many different hotels small, large and in different states but the Disney hotels were the only ones we stayed in that had not just one lifeguard at the pool but two. We have also been at beaches in Florida that did'nt have lifeguards. It's very unfortunate this happened, having a family member die is hard enough never mind trying to have their body flown home. But I would'nt believe this to be Disneys fault.

 

[rie'smom]

Geez,if someone in your family dies @ WDW don't come here looking for sympathy. You'll find:
1. it's your loved one's fault for dying there.
2.it's hilarious.

 

[remmy_7]

Geez,if someone in your family dies @ WDW don't come here looking for sympathy. You'll find:
1. it's your loved one's fault for dying there.
QUOTE]

..I don't think anyone was inferring this.

 

[hayrynen]

OMG, that is crazy. We just got back Saturday night from our trip (4/29 - 5/6) staying at CSR. Now I wonder which pool it was? We spent Wednesday swimming at the pool, and then went swimming Thursday night for a short while. We were at the main pool with the pyramind fountain thing, and I remember the life guard telling everyone that the life guards were going off-duty at 8 and we were now swimming at our own risk. We left shortly afterwards, though my husband stayed with our oldest for a short while longer. I'm assuming it must have been at a different pool, since we didn't notice anything going on. And, we are from Denver, CO as well. What a strange coincidence.... I can't help but wonder what we were doing when all this was happening...

 

[CanadianGuy]

As another poster noted.. the person using the DEFIB was a registered nurse from Maine. I'll take that over a resort person who took a weekend training course any day thank you.

Not to split hairs with previous posters.. but..

- the woman who passed on was 58. I'm not sure that qualifies as a 'young woman'
- and she wasn't there on vacation, but rather she was there to attend a conference of the U.S. Figure Skating Association. she worked for the skating association.

That all said, yes, her death is unfortunate... But when I read about it, since I don't know her personally, my gut reaction went to .. "And here we go with another round of people blaming Disney for a death that in all likelihood, was just one of those things."

A heart attack in a 58 year woman, while exerting herself alone in a pool, is hardly an unlikely circumstance. Unfortunate for sure. Untimely perhaps. I'm not quite sure that it rises to the level of tragedy. Any moreso than the death of any 58 year old person involved in any activity or not.

J

 

[gpuckett]

This is the one place you can count on to get a good dose of holier-than-thou-guilt-inducing comments. I have learned that most of the time it is best to read but not post lest you get your hand slapped. Pretty soon the only ones that will be posting are the ones that already know it all.

 

[vital]

medicgirl 911- Thank you for such a GREAT explanation about the AED's. For some reason, (I guess it's all the medical shows) people think that you can just slap the pads on and shock someone back to life. I'm with you about just doing compressions if nothing else. As a nurse, I don't think I'd be able to do mouth to mouth without a barrier so I can only imagine a lay persons feelings on that!

 

[tinyrip]

i guess the biggest lesson here is to always go swimming with a buddy. a million things could have happened.

as for the comments that some think are in ill taste, well they are. but some people trying to find the humour in things is there way of dealing with it. I'd rather have people laughing then crying. and i could imagine the bad jokes my family would be saying if it were me. The gills joke sounds like something my brother would say.

 

[rie'smom]

Geez,if someone in your family dies @ WDW don't come here looking for sympathy. You'll find:
1. it's your loved one's fault for dying there.
QUOTE]

..I don't think anyone was inferring this.

I meant that most of the time when anyone is hurt @ WDW-SLAM-it's the victim's fault. Also, there have been posts in the past when people have died that blame either the deceased or in the case of the boy who died on MS-his mom.

 

[theycallmered]

CanadianGuy,

You said pretty much exactly what I was thinking.

 

[mytwotinks]

Uh-Oh!!!
Nancy Heizer, of Colorado Springs, Colorado, died Thursday night after being found face-down in the pool at the Coronado Springs Resort. The 58-year-old woman was found motionless in the pool at around 8:00 Thursday night by other guests. Several guests pulled her from the pool and administered CPR, and a guest who was a registered nurse used the Automated External Defibrillator (AED) provided by Disney in attempts to revive her. The Reedy Creek Fire Department arrived on the scene and continued resuscitation efforts while transporting her to Celebration Hospital. She was pronounced dead at the hospital just before 9:00. It is unknown at this time whether there were any other circumstances contributing to her death.

Hmmm...Perhaps Disney should now have 2 types of pools for guests, some with water and some without.

You sound annoyed by this woman's death????? I don't get your post. Just seems pretty sick to me.