His stage presence was magnetic he was the consummate performer, an entertainer extraordinaire, the star of every show. Michael, as the lead singer with his fancy footwork, always took centre stage, never missing a beat in coordinated choreography with his brothers or sliding smoothly out to do his solo turns. Even on the black and white screen TV, you could tell their outfits were colourful and funky with floral motif tops and wide bell-bottom pants. The Jackson 5 appeared on popular musical shows of the time: The Andy Williams Show, The Flip Wilson show, The Sonny and Cher Comedy Hour, and eventually had their own self-titled variety show. Their afros rocked and they were a lot hipper and cooler group than the strait-laced, clean-cut Osmonds. I refer to Michael in the first person because I grew up watching him, as part of the brotherly quintet, The Jackson 5. Expectations were raised by the delay but Michael did not disappoint. We definitely were not going to miss this once-in-a-lifetime event. We chose to stay, extended our leave and burnt our return train tickets. Michael had taken ill after the first show, and we were informed of a postponement on the second show only after we had all gathered inside the Kallang Stadium. My wife and I chatted about “MJ”, how we went to his concert in Singapore in 1993 and how we were blown away by his singing, dancing and the special effects at that memorable show. The hotel didn’t have internet access, and I was unable to confirm the news with my brother. So, when we placed him in a room several doors away from us, I showed him where ours was - he could knock if he needed anything.
My 90-year-old father-in-law was a little hard of hearing and had poor eyesight.
We checked in at a tiny hotel that didn’t have a lift and had to walk up three flights of stairs. We had ferried my aging in-laws there from Ipoh. I was away in Gua Musang, Kelantan, attending a funeral of a relative on my wife’s maternal side. He rarely messaged me, but since I was the only journalist in the family, I was the go-to person when any major news broke. ''When you start mixing propofol with other medications, that is when the wheels start coming off and the safety profile of this medication becomes lessened," says John Dombrowski, MD, a Washington, D.C., anesthesiologist and member of the board of directors of the American Society of Anesthesiologists.The day Michael Jackson died on June 25, 2009, I received a SMS from my eldest brother. Versed is very short-acting and is often used, for instance, during a colonoscopy. Murray could result in respiratory arrest," Vila says.Ītivan and Versed are benzodiazepines, like Valium, which produce a calming effect. "If mixed with other medications, even a small amount of propofol as described by Dr. Murray describes as having administered to Michael Jackson would not normally be considered adequate to result in a 'lethal' blood level of propofol," he says.Ī drug cocktail likely killed the star, he suspects, after taking into consideration the other drugs allegedly given Jackson during his final days. Vila tells WebMD, ''Based on FDA-approved prescribing information, sedation would be initiated with about 27 milligrams in a patient Michael Jackson's size."īut "the doses that Dr. Murray said when he lowered the propofol dose he also mixed in two other sedatives, lorazepam ( Ativan) and midazolam ( Versed).īut 50 milligrams of propofol for a person with Jackson's slender frame is typically far from lethal, says Hector Vila Jr., MD, a Tampa, Fla., anesthesiologist and chairman of the Ambulatory Surgery Committee for the American Society of Anesthesiologists. The Los Angeles Times said Murray had given Jackson 50-milligram doses of propofol in the past and had lowered them to 25 milligrams to wean him off the powerful anesthetic, which is used to sedate patients during surgery. The court documents said the Los Angeles County Coroner's Office reached that conclusion after an autopsy of the pop star, who died June 25.īut an anesthesiology expert cast doubt on that conclusion, saying that the doses mentioned in news reports are "inconsistent with a lethal level of propofol'' and that a drug cocktail likely killed the star.Īccording to the Los Angeles Times, Jackson's personal doctor, Conrad Murray, MD, told detectives at the Los Angeles Police Department that he had been treating Jackson for insomnia for about six weeks. 24, 2009 - ''Lethal levels" of the anesthetic propofol (Diprivan) killed Michael Jackson, according to news reports, which cited information from a search warrant affidavit unsealed in Houston.
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