# Star Wars fans try to rescue the princess **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 10, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-fans-try-to-rescue-the-princess/592146 "2011-08-10T00:29:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Tess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@Tess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tess)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-fans-try-to-rescue-the-princess/592146/1 "2011-08-10T00:29:13Z")
The Star Wars community is rallying to [save Princess Leah](http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/06/27/princess-baby-leah-sick-i_n_881635.html) Neither mundane nor pointless, but I must share. Sorry if it’s a repeat, I couldn’t find anything in a search. Now I must go remove something from my eye. Sniff ---
**Author:** ![miss\_elizabeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@miss\_elizabeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/miss_elizabeth)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-fans-try-to-rescue-the-princess/592146/2 "2011-08-10T01:10:16Z")
How sweet! It’s so lovely to see a community, even a community of people who may never have met in person, rally around for a child like that. I hope little Leah gets a diagnoses and a cure. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-fans-try-to-rescue-the-princess/592146/3 "2011-08-10T15:25:54Z")
Seventeen thousand dollars isn’t going to go very far. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-fans-try-to-rescue-the-princess/592146/4 "2011-08-10T15:59:26Z")
Interesting that they want to “raise awareness” of a condition that hasn’t been identified yet. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-fans-try-to-rescue-the-princess/592146/5 "2011-08-10T16:00:59Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > Seventeen thousand dollars isn’t going to go very far. Surely it will cover dinner for the 40 doctor team that’s been assigned to study her – so long as they don’t go nuts with the wine list. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 4:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-fans-try-to-rescue-the-princess/592146/6 "2011-08-10T16:18:46Z")
> [@](#): > > Interesting that they want to “raise awareness” of a condition that hasn’t been identified yet. How do you expect a condition to get identified before awareness is raised of it? ---
**Author:** ![Serenata67](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/serenata67/32/10646_2.png) [@Serenata67](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Serenata67)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2011, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-fans-try-to-rescue-the-princess/592146/7 "2011-08-10T16:51:30Z")
That’s so sweet! ---
**Author:** ![Tess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/e480ec/32.png) [@Tess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tess)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 4:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-fans-try-to-rescue-the-princess/592146/8 "2011-08-11T04:00:52Z")
I’m hoping at least some of the doctors are working for free. It seems kinda predatory to tell two desperate parents, “I’ve got no idea what’s wrong with your baby. Let’s call a few dozen of my golfing buddies to see what they think. We can probably set you up with a payment program.” ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-fans-try-to-rescue-the-princess/592146/9 "2011-08-11T06:16:54Z")
Plus, it’s Princess Leia, not Leah. ---
**Author:** ![Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hazle_Weatherfield)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-fans-try-to-rescue-the-princess/592146/10 "2011-08-11T06:17:54Z")
: ( ---
**Author:** ![Malacandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@Malacandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malacandra)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-fans-try-to-rescue-the-princess/592146/11 "2011-08-11T06:23:40Z")
> [@Hazle\_Weatherfield](#): > > Plus, it’s Princess Leia, not Leah. But the kid is Leah, not Leia. ---
**Author:** ![aruvqan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aruvqan/32/2891_2.png) [@aruvqan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aruvqan)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-fans-try-to-rescue-the-princess/592146/12 "2011-08-11T10:27:39Z")
> [@Chronos](#): > > How do you expect a condition to get identified before awareness is raised of it? Very true, as the article said they are hoping that someone will read the article who either knows someone who has similar symptoms or is a doctor that may know something about the issue. Pity, I hate seeing infants in pain, at least when a kid is old enough to be coherent you can explain to them why you have to hurt them. [believe me, spinal taps hurt like a motherfucker. I had one when I was 5.] ---
**Author:** ![Baracus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2bfe46/32.png) [@Baracus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baracus)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2011, 11:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/star-wars-fans-try-to-rescue-the-princess/592146/13 "2011-08-11T11:42:19Z")
> [@Tess](#): > > I’m hoping at least some of the doctors are working for free. It seems kinda predatory to tell two desperate parents, “I’ve got no idea what’s wrong with your baby. Let’s call a few dozen of my golfing buddies to see what they think. We can probably set you up with a payment program.” Yeah, I hope if I am ever in that situation the docs just throw up their hands and send us to hospice :rolleyes: