Gary Coleman's wife resisted giving him emergency aid

[Mr. Television]

http://www.people.com/people/article...390543,00.html

Gary Coleman's Wife Resisted Giving Him Emergency Aid

By Ken Lee

Gary Coleman's panicked wife initially balked at helping him after he suffered an apparent head injury that left him bloodied, according her 911 call.

Shannon Price, 24, tells the operator that Coleman was stricken while preparing her something to eat the evening of May 26 downstairs in their Santaquin, Utah, home.

"He just got home, I heard this big bang, I went downstairs. Blood everywhere," she says. "I don't know if he's okay. I'm not down there right now because I have a fever, if I get stressed out I'm going to faint."

Price says, "He fell. His head is bloody. There's blood all over the floor. I don't know what happened." The operator asks, "Is there any way you can go down there at all?" Price replies, "I'll try, I don't know, I mean..."

When the operator asks if anyone else is there who can go downstairs, Price says, "No," and adds, "I've just been kind of sick. I don't want to be traumatized right now."

Price then is heard saying, "Gary, are you okay?" and telling him, "Stay where you are" and "Don’t move, Gary."

The operator asks Price to tell Coleman to put pressure on his own wound. "Gary, you have to put pressure on your wound," Price is heard saying. "He's lethargic, I can't really help him. I just need help quick."

The operator says help is on the way. "I just can't be here with the blood," Price says. "I'm sorry, I can't do it. I can't. … There's blood all over and I can't do anything."

Price then says, "I can't drive" because she's been sick with a fever. "I can't do anything right now."

The operator asks Price "to at least give him a towel" so Coleman can apply pressure to his wound. Price replies, "Yeah, I'm just panicked. I don't know what to do … I just don’t want him to die. I'm freaking out."

Next, she's heard telling Coleman, "You have to put this on your head … Keep pressure on this, okay, hold this." She tells Coleman, "You need to sit down. Sit down! Gary, sit down!"

She tells the operator just moments before emergency crews arrive: "I'm gagging, I got blood on myself, I can't deal."

Coleman, 42, was taken off life support two days later after doctors determined he'd suffered a brain hemorrhage and his condition worsened. An official cause of death is still pending an investigation. Police say there was nothing suspicious about his accident.

Funeral plans have not yet been finalized, although the Price family may hold services by week's end in Utah, according to Coleman's attorney Randy Kester.

[Marvo301]

It's sad that Gary's wife was so wrapped up in her own issues that she couldn't have been more help to Him. It probably wouldn't have changed the final outcome at all but you would still think that his wife would have been at his side doing all she could to help. To me her excuses sound lame and self-centered.

[gidgetgrape]

"I don't want to be traumatized right now." - Whaaat???

[Mr. Television]

Originally Posted by gidgetgrape

"I don't want to be traumatized right now." - Whaaat???

I was thinking the same thing. If someone I loved was dying, I would do anything in my power to help them.

[catlover79]

Originally Posted by Clint Eastwood Fan

I was thinking the same thing. If someone I loved was dying, I would do anything in my power to help them.

Exactly. You wouldn't even think - you'd react!!!!

[Mr. Television]

According to this article, Gary had no memory of what happened to him.

http://www.nydailynews.com/gossip/20...ll_by_his.html

Gary Coleman was bleeding and 'bubbling at the mouth' after accident, wife reveals in 911 call

BY Nancy Dillon
DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER

Wednesday, June 2nd 2010, 8:05 PM


Gary Coleman was bleeding profusely and "bubbling at the mouth" after the mysterious kitchen accident that preceded his sudden death, his panic-stricken wife told a 911 dispatcher.

"I heard this big bang. I went downstairs, (and there was) blood everywhere. I don't know if he's okay. I'm not down there right now because I have seizures if I get stressed out," the tragic TV star's wife Shannon Price said when she summoned help to the couple's Utah home a week ago.

Coleman, 42, was rushed to a hospital and died Friday from a suspected brain hemorrhage.

"His head is bloody. There's blood all over the floor. I don't know what happened," Price said on the 911 tape released Wednesday. "Send someone quick because I don't even know if he's going to be alive. There's a lot of blood on the floor. …He's was like bubbling at the mouth."

Price, 24, said she wasn't sure if he had a seizure or accidentally fell while making her a snack while she waited in the bedroom.

The dispatcher asked Price to return to Coleman's side to check on his condition.

"He's moving," she said. "Gary are you okay? Stay where you are. Don't move Gary."

Price described Coleman as "lethargic" and said he didn't understand when she told him to put pressure on his head wound.

"I looked at the back of his head, and it's all bloody and gross," she said. "He's conscious, but he's not, like, with it."

She said he wasn't convulsing when she found him.

"I just don't want him to die. I'm freaking out, like, really bad," she said.

At one point Coleman stood up, and the dispatcher told Price he should sit down until help arrived.

"What's wrong?" Coleman is heard saying in the background.

"Look at the floor. Sit down," Price ordered him. "I'm gagging. I got blood on myself. I can't deal."

Coleman suffered a 1 to 1.25-inch laceration on his head from the accident, according to a police report obtained by the Daily News.

The "Diff'rent Strokes" star had no recollection when questioned at the scene, the report said, and nothing appeared suspicious.

"I asked if he hit his head on the floor or the kitchen counter or where, and he again told me did not remember," a responding officer from the Santaquin Police Department reported.

Coleman was able to walk with assistance to a waiting gurney in the couple's garage, the report said.

He was lucid the following morning but began losing consciousness last Thursday afternoon, hospital officials said.

He was removed from life support Friday.

Funeral services are planned in Salt Lake City this weekend, the Associated Press reports.

The victim of congenital kidney disease, Coleman underwent two kidney transplants by the time he was 14.

Transplant drugs stunted his growth and caused the eternal child-like appearance that both fueled and undercut his success.

Coleman starred in eight seasons of "Diff'rent Strokes" as the chubby-cheeked Arnold Jackson but struggled when the series ended in 1986.

He sued his parents for mishandling his trust fund, declared bankruptcy in 1999, admitted he once punched a woman who menacingly asked for an autograph and even worked a stint as a shopping mall security guard.

[catlover79]

This whole thing gets fishier (not to mention creepier) as more details are released.

[Mr. Television]

Here's the 911 call.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utZ2hHAcY9c

[catlover79]

Originally Posted by Clint Eastwood Fan

Here's the 911 call.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utZ2hHAcY9c

My mom and I heard that on the news. Unbelievable. Mark my words - Gary's parents will sue her for wrongful death. You heard it here first.

[Marvo301]

Originally Posted by catlover79

This whole thing gets fishier (not to mention creepier) as more details are released.

[Larenz09]

Originally Posted by gidgetgrape

"I don't want to be traumatized right now." - Whaaat???

There was just no excuse for that!! What on earth did she think HE was going through?!!

It is almost as though she WANTED him to die!

Something definitely sounds very suspicious there.

[DSfan]

Originally Posted by Larenz09

There was just no excuse for that!! What on earth did she think HE was going through?!!

It is almost as though she WANTED him to die!

Something definitely sounds very suspicious there.

I just don't really get it. I'm trying to figure out why he was bleeding everywhere. He was getting her a snack in the kitchen. Does that mean he was cooking and using the stove and something there caused a problem or does it mean he was taking something normally from a pantry and what could he have been bleeding so much from. Did he faint? And if so, was their counter or floor capable of cutting his head it just doesn't seem likely. It had to have been a sharp corner on a counter.

I want to hear what the doctor's take is on this situation.

[Larenz09]

Originally Posted by DSfan

I just don't really get it. I'm trying to figure out why he was bleeding everywhere. He was getting her a snack in the kitchen. Does that mean he was cooking and using the stove and something there caused a problem or does it mean he was taking something normally from a pantry and what could he have been bleeding so much from. Did he faint? And if so, was their counter or floor capable of cutting his head it just doesn't seem likely. It had to have been a sharp corner on a counter.

I want to hear what the doctor's take is on this situation.

Well, when my brother fell and hit the floor, it was kind of a similar one, except that there was no external bleeding. His death was caused allegedly by him going into full cardiac arrest after having had the stroke.

A person can fall from a standing position on the floor and not have any bleeding. But this all sounds too fishy to me! I've fallen any times and hit my head, but there was no memoraging at all. Only a small cut, bump or bruise.

Gary might have started hemoraging at the brain before his fall in the kitchen.
He might have had a blood clot or something, but the report says nothing about a clot.

And so, still, we are right back to Square One. What really caused him to bleed profusely, as it was told? We may never know until the final conclusion is revealed - as in the case of Michael Jackson last summer.

[catlover79]

Originally Posted by DSfan

I just don't really get it. I'm trying to figure out why he was bleeding everywhere. He was getting her a snack in the kitchen. Does that mean he was cooking and using the stove and something there caused a problem or does it mean he was taking something normally from a pantry and what could he have been bleeding so much from. Did he faint? And if so, was their counter or floor capable of cutting his head it just doesn't seem likely. It had to have been a sharp corner on a counter.

I want to hear what the doctor's take is on this situation.

So do I. Are they planning an autopsy?

[Larenz09]

Originally Posted by catlover79

So do I. Are they planning an autopsy?

There was no mention of that either.

I think that everything surrounding this caase is so suspicious!