BEARKING: Richard Gere Hospitalized with Pneumonia

Gerbils can be so unsanitary.

Aids ?

The Covids?

Did he get his pneumonia shots?

How do people still think he's straight?

Richard, how inconsiderate to die at the weekend.

I have no idea why, since I'm not a passionate fan, but it would just seem huge to me if Richard Gere died.

Is the gerbil okay???

Oh that can be quite serious.

Once you hit a certain age, you should get a pneumonia vaccine.

You can significantly reduce the chances of a lot of very bad things with vaccines after you hit 50 that they don't really warn you about: Shingles, pneumonia, tetanus (you do need to get a booster for this periodically).

Is there a pneumonia vaccine R10? First I've hear of it. Or do you mean flu vaccine?

[quote]Is there a pneumonia vaccine [R10]?

It says 65 and older, but getting one sooner rather than later may be worthwhile.

And he never got that Oscar nomination.

[quote] Is there a pneumonia vaccine [R10]? First I've hear of it.

Yes. Doctors have pushed their older patients to get it for many, many years. It’s routine.

Meh. I was hospitalized twice in one year with Community Acquired Pneumonia. And I'm 25 years younger than Gere. (And I'm twice as handsome and my dick is 7 times as long).

But the second time I was hospitalized, they really freaked me out. First a nurse was doing the intake and she casually says "and you have HIV?" 😳

I said, no, I take PrEP and if you look at my medical labs, you'll see my last HIV test was negative. And she said OK, but then the attending doc who never even examined me added HIV to my medical history and wrote in the notes "Pt denies hx of HIV".

When I was released I had to contact my primary care doc and say "they listed HIV on my medical history, but unless I was tested without consent AND not informed of the results, I'm HIV negative to my knowledge". My doc removed HIV from my medical history, but I had to file an appeal to have the ER doc change his notes that said I had HIV (and was denying it.) I even went in and got tested for my PrEP check up two months early just so I could prove and have a lab report that I was negative.

Weird thing was, I had pneumonia, yeah, I felt pretty crappy, but I wasn't in acute distress. And the ER was really crowded, but instead of waiting my turn, they rushed me back and started an IV the moment I walked in the door. I think they thought I had HIV and was had PCP because they saw the Truvada listed in my current meds list OR (and this is kinda what I think really happened): they saw that I had a prescription for Truvada (2 ARVs) and had been prescribed Paxlovid (which contains another ARV) and they may have had a query that looked at my info, saw that I had been prescribed THREE ARVs and a data error occurred and auto-coded me as HIV+.

The reason I suspected the latter was because it was a hospital I had worked at previously, I had worked in the data center and worked in EPIC, the electronic medical records system, and we were always creating queries to try to catch things before they slipped through the cracks. If Paxlovid hadn't contained ritonavir, *I* very easily could have been the guy that created that query as a safety net to help identify potential HIV cases that weren't documented. That's basically what we did all day and were there for.

Is anyone crying at the discotheque?

Thoughts and prayers, but karma is a bitch.

Sad last days

Hospital and a Gentleman

Looking for Dr. Goodbar

^^That was good. Well done, sir, well done.

Noooooo ! ! !

Someone predicted Tuesday Weld will leave us soon : (

I cannot live without BOTH Weld and Richard Gere!

[quote]r5 How do people still think he's straight?

My female friend had a short affair with him in the 80s. She said he was great in bed.

r23 Lucky bitch!

[quote]Is the gerbil okay???

It's fine; it sends its love.

Pneumonia can be caused by a wide variety of bacteria, viruses and fungi in the air we breathe.

The pneumonia vaccine helps protect against serious infections caused by 23 types of pneumococcal bacteria, but not all of them.

If you get it and are fortunate/smart enough to get to the ER, they need to collect a culture to confirm the presence of the specific pathogen causing the illness. This will indicate what course of treatment (specific antibiotic) is needed.

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[quote]It's fine; it sends its love.

Get my pronouns right, you bitch!

He's fine; he sends his love!

Was the gerbil vaxxed?

No, but he's on Prep.

R5 How do people still think he's gay?

If Richard Gere is gay he's got a funny way of going about it.

After two marriages ended in divorce (Cindy Crawford and Carey Lowell) , Mr. Gere dived back into that pool and wed a woman nearly twenty years younger and proceeded to breed more children.

In any event entire family came down with some sort of bug but only RG was in hospital (briefly). He's since been discharged and recuperating at wherever family is staying in Mexico.

Sexuality isn't a wall, you dumb frau.

🐻👑 !

R33 ?

[quote]I cannot live without BOTH Weld and Richard Gere!

The Datalounge will auction your fucking stuff, shitty though it undoubtedly it is.

Richard Gere must be doing something right, the man is loaded.

I knew that was coming R1. 😂

Actually r38 I play a little game with Gere — I guess before I open the thread how many posts in before a gerbil is invoked. I lost on this one, as I had guessed four.

I do the same thing with BRF threads — how many posts in before Meghan is invoked….

[quote] My doc removed HIV from my medical history, but I had to file an appeal to have the ER doc change his notes that said I had HIV (and was denying it.)

R15 I never interpreted a doctor saying in notes "denies" meant they thought you were lying.

It seemed like regular jargon to me - means "I asked the patient and the patient said no." But yes, for something like HIV I'd want them to be very clear, I guess.

The home at R37 may be the home of his that was near Martha Stewart's estate - he appeared briefly on that gardening show she had on HGTV during the pandemic, the one with her smokin' hot gardener.

Does Alejandra have a shenis?

Richard Gere - Sad Last Days!

[quote][R15] I never interpreted a doctor saying in notes "denies" meant they thought you were lying.

[quote]It seemed like regular jargon to me - means "I asked the patient and the patient said no." But yes, for something like HIV I'd want them to be very clear, I guess.

Oh, yeah, I totally get that. I've seen plenty of things like "Pt denies history of chronic shortness of breath" and (on other charts) "Pt denies being pregnant" documented..

My notes said something like 50 yo male with HIV disease presented with pneumonia.

And then Pt denies history of HIV.

And I'm sure he's the one who added HIV as a diagnosis to my electronic medical record. If it was just listed in the notes, it wouldn't have been in my overall profile.

Getting it removed in one place was easy, but I still had a set of notes that any future provider at the same hospital (and the hospital is large system where I also get primary care, have seen a pulmonologist since, have had to see an audiologist) could review and would see "50 yo male with HIV". I didn't want to have to continually explain that or, worse, have ANOTHER doc see the notes and add it back again.

Fuck, you’re verbose as shit!

[quote] but I wasn't in acute distress.

Don’t nobody care what you was wearin, gurl.

Sad last days.

oh Richard Gere we love you get up

Oh Ricardo Gere te anamos despertar

Ugg , can u imagine being That old and having a bunch of young children running around ? Oh the horror.

Get well soon Mr Gere

🐻 👑 ❤️

Wake up, Mr Gere! Wake up! And FUCK ME!

The dog who looks like Richard Gere.

Hmmm... maybe it ISN'T natural for 70 year olds to have toddlers after all!

[quote]Fuck, you’re verbose as shit!

Yeah. I am. I'll keep this brief for you: I'm sorry your reading comprehension ended at Sunday comic strips.

Hope he's doing well...

I’m going to dress as a candy-striper and sneak in there, I swear to GOD!

Stop trying to make it all about you, R44/56! There's a pneumonic gerbil fighting to survive in Mexico, and all you can think about is [italic]your[italic/]medical history? We should be organising an Air Evac for the gerbil, and lighting incense for Richard.

Fucking formatting fail. Clearly, I'm very distressed!

Richard Gere sold his Pound Ridge pile and moved into "smaller" quarters elsewhere. Either way don't think he's bothered by his small children running about. Both homes are palatial and come with decent amount of grounds. Plus you know they've got help...

See Daily Fail link to follow..

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Richard Gere knew what he was doing or wanted marrying and subsequently breeding in rather quick succession of his new wife. He had children from previous marriage so it's not like there was any need to produce more.

"I’m going to dress as a candy-striper and sneak in there, I swear to GOD!"

You're bit late dearie; Mr. Gere was only in hospital for 24 hours, then discharged home to further recuperate.

The gerbil rumor was started by Sylvester Stallone who was jealous of Gere.

Maybe he expected Gere to service him like Travolta did?

Gere kissed me outside a bar in the early 80s. I’m female and he was sexy.

R15, methinks thou doest protest waaaaaay too much. If you have to take a half-dozen ARVs, you've got the HIV.

r66 Another lucky bitch! Am very jealous.

I agree with the posters saying that if he’s gay he has a very funny way of showing it (I really don’t think he is).

It’s also amazing how much the pandemic shed people. That picture from 2019 he still looks like “himself” and pretty good, that most recent picture at his shit movie screening he looks embalmed (as he does in the movie itself, which would have been a year ago).

Really hope he’s ok I don’t think I’m ready for a Richard Gere death just yet.

I imagine the gay rumors are because he played a gay character on Broadway in 1979.

The photos his wife shared from their vacation looks like Gere with his daughter and grandson - not wife and son. But that's when you get when there's a 34 year difference between the spouses.

[quote]I’m going to dress as a candy-striper and sneak in there,

I was a candy stripper once.

Yeah, that must be it r70. Sure.

There’s no way to keep anything secret now. If Gere had male lovers in the past they’d have come forth by now.

Not good. Pneumonia in a person his age often leads to a bzd end.

Sure r73, THATs why you didn’t get along.

I'm sure he took advantage of the casting couch when young and he seems like a sexually liberated soul but ultimately he preferred women, wed them and procreated. And given how outspoken he is about social causes and marginalized groups and I doubt he'd be closeted. So probably bi leaning straight.

R77 my friend who is an actor said he would have used the casting couch willingly if it guaranteed he would be seen as a whore and not a closet case. And thus he never became A list. He said there’s no guarantee it will all work out, the productions might flop and then you always have the daunting task of being labeled a hypocrite. He’s super hippy, and sexually free but chose to live with integrity.

R77 that sounds spot on. He also did a lot of drugs back in the day which tends to go with all of what you’re saying.

He is also a huge flirt with everyone - women especially but he doesn’t really discriminate . He would flirt in the chair in front of him if he had to. I’m friendly with a few women who report for digital outlets at events (screenings etc)

R66 That is the stuff dreams are made of.

The gerbil had no comment.

Question to the OP: Did you MEAN ‘Bearking’ or ‘Breaking’? Cause for a while now I seriously was trying to figure out how Richard Gere was associated with bears.

Is he dead yet?

I love the poster above who thinks being married to Cindy C or Carey Lowell was proof of his being straight.

You must think the Clooney marriage is just dandy, too!

He seems as gay as a jay bird to me in Goodbar and most other things he’s filmed. Has an angry cold fish chemistry with women.

I for one never understood the appeal of Richard Gere. He's short, has a huge nose and tiny eyes and no charm whatsoever. I never thought he was any great shakes as an actor. So what was the big deal?

Its the tiny piglet eyes that turn me off him. Dustin Hoffman has the same creepy piglet eyes.

R85 male actors have never had to be conventionally good looking to be considered sex symbols . Especially from 70s onward.

I guess his appeal is he looked like rough trade who could turn stylish and sophisticated. His breakthrough role was as a male prostitute. Someone women could "tame."

His chemistry with Jodie in SOMERSBY was off the charts!!!

R84 Why would Cindy Crawford date all these men, that you consider gay?

R71 I was waiting for the ageist comment about the age gap between him and his wife. His wife is a 40 year old grown woman and she dosent owe you an explanation.

If the younger partner is 30 and beyond, I don't quite understand how they can be a victim in a relationship with a much older person. I can understand late teens and early 20s because of lack of maturity and world experience. Mainly with Americans.

R56, you know this is a message board, right? Not some platform for you to write your thesis.