Bob Saget bumped his head too hard and that's what killed him.

[Archae]

Somehow he got a blow to the back of his head that was fatal.

Family: Bob Saget died after accidental blow to the head

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Bob Saget’s death last month stemmed from an accidental blow to the head, his family said in a statement Wednesday.

The comedian and “Full House” star was found dead Jan. 9 in a Florida hotel room. He’d performed in the area the night before as part of a stand-up tour.

“The authorities have determined that Bob passed from head trauma,” the Saget family said. “They have concluded that he accidentally hit the back of his head on something, thought nothing of it and went to sleep. No drugs or alcohol were involved.”

https://www.wbay.com/2022/02/10/bob-sagets-cause-death-revealed-head-trauma/

[RockRaven]

1. That's sad, but some of the gossipy speculation was probably pretty terrible, so I suppose it is

good that the family was able to put this out there.

[JI7]

2. I think this is how Natasha Richardson died

but in that case they knew when it happened although she felt mostly ok right after it happened and that is probably what happened with Bob Saget so he just went to sleep . I wonder if they could have saved him if he had got it checked out right away .

[Hassin Bin Sober]

4. Pretty likely if he got checked out they would have ordered a CT and they could have done surgery

With elderly people like Saget the protocol is usually a CT. Much easier for an older person to develop a bleed.

We were recently discussing this with my Physician Assistant niece. She said as the brain naturally shrinks/atrophies with age it makes tears easier.

When my partner worked for a big hospital near Wrigley in Chicago, he used to get called in at all hours for drunk kids hitting their heads. I thought it was ridiculous back then. Now that I’ve seen a handful of people die from what seems like minor head trauma it makes sense.

[Ex Lurker]

8. Elderly?

I guess it meets the definition but he was pretty spry.

[LisaL]

15. In his case it sounds like it might have been

a minor head bump (nothing dramatic like in Natasha Richardson's case). But this minor head bump caused a brain bleed.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

27. We will never know.

The cause could be 80/20 with 80% of the damage caused by the fall and maybe landing on his ass causing a tear. With 20% caused by hitting his head on the edge of the tub or wall or sink.

My niece was saying older person fall = watch for brain bleed. It doesn’t even have to involve actual head trauma. Saget was on the lower end of “old” but the point is a bad jolting fall can cause the brain bits to pull away from the attachments and cause a bleed.

[Midnight Writer]

3. It's raining, it's pouring,...

[orleans]

6. i thought the same thing--because he didn't get up in the morning nt

[happybird]

11. Holy crap

I never really thought about the words/meaning.

[betsuni]

5. I've just finished watching the endless Netflix series "How to Get Away With Murder"

where characters drop dead like flies from being murdered, on purpose or sort of accidental, and I can never figure out why because the plot's ridiculously complicated, so my mind instantly goes to possible foul play.

[Demovictory9]

18. Viola Davis is a great actor but i found the show too complicated also... stopped watching after

first year.

[WHITT]

7. Ya Gotta Wonder

why they haven't checked what time the the keycard was utilized and if there is video of the hallway, at a bare minimum.

[jmowreader]

9. Have they checked his butt for bruises?

This sounds funny, but if he slipped in the tub, fell backwards and hit his head on something, his butt would also be bruised.

[herding cats]

10. I almost lost my mom like this.

She fell and "bumped" her head "a bit" and next thing I knew (luckily she was living with me) one side of her face was sagging. We were so lucky she got help in time.

[MurrayDelph]

12. Early morning Christmas 2019

I awoke to my wife calling my name, and my thoughts were:
Why is the bed so hard?
What am I doing on the floor?, and
Ow!

I had apparently passed out on my way back from the bathroom, having bounced my face on the sink, scraped my back against things that broke my fall, and bruised my tailbone.

No cause was ever found, but I was on a heart monitor for a week, had a eeg and a cat scan (they never did anything about the chipped bone just below my right eye socket).

I proudly tell people they looked into my brain and found nothing.

[MaryMagdaline]

22. Funny!!

Glad you recovered

[Demsrule86]

13. The back of your head? I have bumped my head from time to time...getting in the damn

car for example. But unless you take a fall or someone hits you how do you hit yourself on the back of your head...there is no evidence of a fall that would do it...could someone have hit him? It just seems odd to me. Although, I am a murder mystery aficionado so I am always interested in that sort of thing. In fact, as an aside watch Jack Reacher on Amazon...so good.

[LisaL]

14. Might have been on a headboard.

While getting into bed.

[AngryOldDem]

17. I've done that once or twice.

It hurts. Never know what impact could be hard enough to do harm.

[Polybius]

28. It wouldn't be a strong enough blow to kill him

My guess is that he fell backwards, probably in the bathtub.

[alphafemale]

19. Standing up too fast under a cabinet or something.

But hard to imagine something like that being fatal.

Unless he was on blood thinners or something which can cause excessive bleeding, especially if it was internal it would not be noticed.

[Demsrule86]

25. That is true.

[Bettie]

23. Slipping in the shower

I've slammed the back of my head slipping on ice, though I doubt that was an issue in Florida.

[Demsrule86]

24. I have been most recently stuck in Carolina...there is no way you bump your head on the headboard

in any of the rooms, I stayed in...my flight was delayed. And if he fell in the shower or somewhere else...there would likely be bruising...seems odd to me. But who knows.

[AngryOldDem]

16. Emphasizes to not take head injuries lightly.

Worth a trip to the ER or urgent care to get checked out by people who know what to look for, and know if there’s any reason for concern.

[tanyev]

20. While that's true, at this moment in time most ERs are jam-packed with likely Covid.

[Mad_Machine76]

21. But do you go to the ER

every time you bonk your head? Is it just more of a thing if you’re older? There are some instances like car accidents that would be obvious but how hard would it have to be to cause serious trauma that could kill you?

[uponit7771]

29. +1

[Baitball Blogger]

26. I assume they claim it was an accident because the door was locked from the inside?