Breaking: Lamar Odom in hospital fighting for his life

Is anyone surprised by this news? There were plenty of articles telling us that he's been in a bad spiral since before his split with the Mavs and Khloe.

Let's just say I have experience in the medical field and being intubated isn't the worst thing to happen to you. There are many reasons why a Doctor would do that and it's not just because you can't breath on your own, your mental status could be altered and they could opt to put a tube in your trachea to protect your airway.

If he does survive this I hope his inner circle is strong enough to step in and really make a positive influence in his life. It's too bad that Odom ended up making these bad decisions but he can also make better ones. Good luck to him and his family.

 

It's not surprising that everyone talks about how nice of a person Lamar Odom is. I remember during a Rockets and Lakers game when Yao Ming got hurt and was grabbing his leg, Odom was the only Laker that stayed by his side to check on him. It might have been during the series when we took them to 7, I don't remember exactly.

 

I pray for his health and safety. I have always liked him, and loved seeing him play on the court.

 

Dude was at a brothel taking 10 tablets of sexual performance enhancers and tons of coke. I could think of better places to send your prayers. Even if he pulls through, he would likely just go back to his coke head habits. Don't pray for him to be well if he keeps that up. If anything, you should pray that he changes his ways if he survives.

 

wow...just wow....

 

Your mindset doesn't give enough room to consider why Lamar may be making decisions that some can't understand.

His past is marked with countless tragedies and constant reminders of despair. With a quick Google search, or if you have followed his career, I think you may have a bit more sympathy for his predicament.

True, he wasn't forced at gunpoint to (allegedly) take the supplements or the (alleged) cocaine. However, with what he's been through, I can see why his coping mechanisms are possibly more destructive than the methods that others use during times of grieving.

Lamar is more complex than just being a "coke head" like you implied. Again, his past is documented.

We all have experienced difficult events. We all make choices to deal with them accordingly. I could have easily gone down that road from the infinite tragedies in my own life, but I chose work, basketball and distractions to help me through the sad years, and now, illness. We're all fragile at some point.

However, I don't think we are in a position to judge him, based on the cards life dealt out to him. Money doesn't solve sadness, abandonment, etc...Lamar is proof of that.

I'm not giving him an "excuse" for being at a brothel and allegedly taking different substances. It's not a desirable situation for most of us.

I guess I just think he's worthy of a prayer, regardless of what he did, where he's at or what we may believe of him from TV and the court.

I'd pray for a murder victim the same way I would for Lamar.

At our very essence, we're so alike, so human and so flawed.

 

If he doesn't make it, I guess you could say he died doing what he loved .. I could think of thousands of worse ways to go ... four day long drug induced sex orgy would probably be on my list as best way to go ...sure beats the hell out of prostate cancer

 

at least lamar isn't a homicidal manic that takes his pain and despair out on innocent people like school shooters. he keeps it to himself.

mental illness is such a sad thing. despite success, you just can't run away from the demons in your head.

 

I grew up in Queens, New York not too far from where he grew up. It's not that I don't sympathize with him. My hopes are that he turns it around. If they save him and he continues doing coke and overdosing on drugs in brothels, then there's not much you can help him with. Actually, I know about his father doing drugs, him losing his friends, and his mother. I know that stuff like that has happened to him. That, however, doesn't mean that he should go take every drug under the Sun. Are you saying that you hope he makes it only to keep doing those things just because of the tragedies in his past? He's also been on meth and other things before. What outcome would you expect? Let's hope he changes his ways.

 

The guy you quoted definitely could have toned it down. We feel for Lamar and it's absolutely a sad event; the guy is 35 and has experienced so much pain in his life. Prayers are always welcome to those that can use it most. Odom is in a dark time and could use all the support and prayer he can take because he's going to need a miracle to come out of this and be normal again.

On the flip side, I understand the original poster you quoted because to me this isn't a "tragedy". He chose to do these things knowing damn well that it could affect him, hurt him, or worse. I tend to roll my eyes when people say it's a tragic death when someone ODs because it takes away from the real tragedies in the world where someone is taken way too early by a stroke of bad luck.

 

Dude, prayer won't do **** either way. We should hope he has a good medical team to help him pull through and pursues help for his addiction and clear mental illness.

 

You are very, very wrong about that statement. I have seen prayer heal people in ways doctors are dumbfounded by. If you don't know how to pray then you need to learn.

 

So what exactly makes you think that the people praying he survives this and regains his health AREN'T also hoping and praying he stops doing the things/drug use that put him in the hospital? It is possible to pray or wish for both.

I'm sure the poster you quoted never wrote or implied that he hopes Lamar makes it "only to keep doing those things just because of the tragedies of his past" but rather he understands how Lamar ended up in this situation. I don't think he condones it or hopes Lamar regains his health and gets back to using illicit drugs.

 

Clear the guy has mental health issues, he isn't just some irresponsible drug users. plenty of people can dabble in drugs and have no issue. Look at all the loss and hurt in his past, clearly that pain is what has lead him to try and escape with drugs.
Drug addiction and mental illness IS a real tragedy and a real issue. Most Countries treat drug addiction as a criminal issue rather than a mental health issue and it needs to be address.

A tragedy isn't defined as being bad luck.

 

So sometimes prayer works…other times it doest. Guess you just have to cross your fingers and hope you hit the prayer lottery!

 

I'm sorry for the hardships in his life. No doubt. But life comes down to choices.

Hopefully others learn from LO's mistakes.

 

Hope he pulls thru btw.

 

I definitely agree 100% with this. No matter what you have to deal with in life, there are choices you make along the way that can define how your life ultimately turns out.

 

True, I've had relatives who make some unimaginably bad decisions even with a very supportive family (and extended family). Ultimately it really comes down to your own decision. We can only do so much to discourage the bad habits.

I hope LO can recover and learn from his past so he can be a figure and teach others (kids and active professional sports players) of things to watch out for.

 

I hope Steve Francis takes notice of what is going with Lamar