     ACCORDING TO INITIAL POLICE INVESTIGATION: THE DECEASED WAS VISITING FROM CALIFORNIA FOR THE PAST TWO MONTHS.  ON OCT. 4, 1996 SHE WAS TAKEN TO MERCY HOSPITAL'S EMERGENCY ROOM BY HER BROTHER-IN-LAW AFTER COMPLAINING OF VOMITING, STOMACH AND BACK PAIN.  SHE WAS RELEASED AROUND 2:00 AM, OCT. 5, 1996.  AT 8:30 AM SHE RETURNED WITH THE SAME SYMPTOMS AND ALSO BLOODY DIARRHEA.
     SHE WAS COOPERATIVE, BUT MOANING CONSTANTLY.  HER BLOOD PRESSURE WAS 94/60, PULSE 96, RESPIRATION 24 AND TEMP. 97.9.  AT 10:42 AM SHE RETURNED FROM X-RAY AND WAS UNRESPONSIVE.  CPR WAS INITIATED AND SHE WAS INTUBATED.  SHE REGAINED AN IRREGULAR PAPABLE PULSE, BUT IT FADED IN AND OUT.  AT 12:35 PM SHE BECAME PULSELESS AGAIN AND CPR WAS REINSTATED, BUT TO NO AVAIL AND SHE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 1:05PM.  
     HISTORY OF STATUS POST SPLENECTOMY AND QUIT SMOKING SEVERAL YEARS AGO.  THE FAMILY ALSO ADVISED SHE HAD HISTORY OF PSYCHIATRIC AND NERVE PROBLEMS.
     THE DECEASED WAS ALSO TREATED BY DR. BRENNEISEN (213-977-1214) IN LOS ANGELES CALIFORNIA FOR CHRONIC IDIOPATHIC THROMBOCYTOPENIA PROPORA SINCE 1975, ALSO FIBROCITIS, STATUS POST HYSTERECTOMY AND SPLENECTOMY.

                           *** REFILED ON OCTOBER 29, 1996 *** BAR **