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COLUMBIA — Nearly 100 mourners attended a memorial service at Hillel Jewish Campus Center on Tuesday night to remember MU freshman Tracy Fisher.
Fisher, whose 19th birthday would have been Tuesday, was rushed to the hospital Monday after collapsing in the middle of College Avenue at the Rollins Street intersection. She was a pre-journalism student from Dallas.
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- MU freshman Tracy Fisher died Monday from an undetected blood clot in her leg, according to the Boone County Medical Examiner's Office
- A T-shirt, photographs and candles lie on a table during a memorial service for Tracy Fisher on Tuesday at Mizzou Hillel. Fisher died from a blot clot in her leg that traveled to her heart. Tuesday would have been her 19th birthday.
- Pulmonary embolism results from the passing of a blood clot, or emboli, through the pulmonary arteries in the heart. Emobolisms are hard to detect or diagnose because symptoms are often vague and nonspecific.
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The Boone County Medical Examiner's Office has ruled that she died from an undetected blood clot in her leg and her death was likely "near instantaneous."
The memorial service, which began at 6:15 p.m., featured prayers in both English and Hebrew, and gave mourners an opportunity to say a few words about how Fisher had touched their lives.
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My heart goes out to Tracy's family and friends. I had the pleasure of speaking with her just a few weeks ago for my story about post-Yom Kippur meals.