sixpenceee:Heather Michele O’Rourke best known for Poltergeist died at age of 12 from car
sixpenceee:Heather Michele O’Rourke best known for Poltergeist died at age of 12 from cardiac arrest. She became ill early 1987 and was misdiagnosed by doctors as having Crohn’s disease, an inflammatory bowel disease. She was prescribed cortisone to treat the disease, which reportedly caused her cheeks to appear puffy and large. On January 31, 1988, O’Rourke suddenly became ill again, vomiting and unable to keep anything down. The next morning she collapsed while preparing to leave for the hospital and her stepfather called paramedics. O’Rourke suffered a cardiac arrest while on the way to the hospital. -- source link
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