Sen. Swimmer *HIC!* Kenne(drunk)y’s liver is (IN USAGE) at least older than U.S. Constitution...and the Magna Charter, combined.
Posted on 05/19/2008 5:08:45 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Sen. Edward Kennedy had two seizures over the weekend, not one as originally reported, his father-in-law told WBZ Monday.
Kennedy was taken first to Cape Cod Hospital Saturday morning after having a seizure and was later transferred to Massachusetts General Hospital for further examination.
During the helicopter ride to Mass. General, Edmund Reggie said Kennedy had a second seizure. "He had a seizure in the helicopter. You think that would be bad, but it's good the doctors said... By flailing his arms and moving his arms and legs and head, it showed he was not a stroke victim."
Kennedy's spokeswoman Stephanie Cutter said Monday it is unclear when doctors will release information on his condition.
The family still has not said much about the incident, but Reggie told WBZ more about what happened on Saturday. "He had walked the dogs, he had come in for breakfast and felt something just before breakfast, so he sat down. He knew there was something wrong… He didn't want to fall. They thought it was a stroke and they called EMS, which responded very quickly.
Kennedy, 76, had more tests Monday and is undergoing further evaluation at Mass General.
Cutter said the senator had a good night of sleep and is resting comfortably. He spent the morning with his wife, Vicki, and sister, Jean. His son Ted Jr. arrived at 11:30 a.m.
President Bush called Kennedy's wife Monday to check on the senator's progress and asked her to "take care of his friend."
"The senator and Mrs. Kennedy were very appreciative of the call," Cutter said. Over the weekend, Kennedy fielded similar calls from Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois and Sen. Charles Schumer of New York, while receiving visits from Sen. John Kerry, other dignitaries and a stream of family members.
Doctors originally suspected he had suffered a stroke, but his physician later said it had been a seizure and that Kennedy was "not in any immediate danger."
Dr. Larry Ronan and other physicians were conducting a battery of tests, the results of which may not be available until late Monday or Tuesday.
"He was sitting up and ordering food out from Legal Seafood," Kennedy friend Bob Shrum told the Early Show Monday about the senator's activity over the weekend.
"This is someone who literally has touched almost everybody's life in America," Shrum said.
"There isn't a bill for economic or social justice that doesn't bear his imprint."
“This is someone who literally has touched almost everybody’s life in America,” Shrum said.
“There isn’t a bill for economic or social justice that doesn’t bear his imprint.”
/gag
He must have gone more than the prescribed 1 hour without his Chivas Regal.
One for the gin and one for the tonic.
I wonder of Kennedy’s “father-in-law” is actually younger than him.
I'd go even furthur than that. This is someone who not only touched everybody's life in America, but millions of those without life too.
If by "everybody" you mean every bar waitress from Palm Beach to Hyannisport.
He will fight tooth and nail to live, He knows Mary Jo is waiting for him!
http://www.tulanelink.com/tulanelink/reggie_box.htm
Judge Edmund M. Reggie, Former Tulane Board Member
The “father-in-law” appears to be six years older than Kennedy.
Sen. Swimmer *HIC!* Kenne(drunk)y’s liver is (IN USAGE) at least older than U.S. Constitution...and the Magna Charter, combined.
Nor are there such bills without spilled liquor stains on them.
What- no call or visit from Hillary?LOL
I would say there isn’t an abortion that has been done in this country that also hasn’t had his imprint upon it.
We have longsuffered him. Maybe he retires from the senate, God willing.
I think someone way more sinister is waiting for him!
...... He knows Mary Jo is waiting for him!......
I think not. Mary Jo is likely in heaven
Oddly, the man has been doing that for years.
You can’t wish him dead, but you CAN wish he was in Heaven!
I have no wish, but common sense tells me Teddy won’t be going to heaven
No doubt the “seizures” were the same thing that was happening with Chris Matthews. Obamasms.
Nice to know it took a fire department to haul him out and a hose to extinguish the fumes.
Now he can rest easy on this taxpayer funded health coverage.
and a crook!
I wouldn’t brag about that if I was Shrum.
God Bless him for a speedy recovery.
Judge not lest ye be judge. We can all received the grace of God before dying regardless of how we lived.
That’s right, DT’S - long time boozers have them if they don’t get their fix. Their shaking like a fence in a wind storm,
A couple of shot’s of His Old Man’s prohibition juice, an the lion would be a kitten
But you're right, God's grace extends to the deathbed.
"Just as man is destined to die once, and after that to face judgment, so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people; and he will appear a second time, not to bear sin, but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him." - Hebrews 9:27
“There isn’t a bill for economic or social justice that doesn’t bear his imprint.”
And when The Grim Reaper finally tires of playing cat-and-mouse with him, there'll be a wing in Hell named for him and awaiting his arrival as a result of that 'imprint'.
As I mentioned over the weekend, I can’t be too hard on Teddy, after all he DID challenge that idiot Jimmy Carter in ‘80 for the ‘Rat nomination, and that certainly didn’t hurt the campaign of Ronald Reagan who fortunately flushed the Buffoon from Plains back to Georgia with a 44 state landslide.
Of course it has become known that Teddy was playing footsie with Andropov and the KGB and seeking to undermine Reagan’s approach to winning the Cold War, but we won’t worry about that right now.
Get well soon Senator! And don’t eat any candies postmarked Chappaqua New York!
I think they should do liver studies.
Not mention all the dead South Vietnamese....
“...social justice that doesn’t bear his imprint.”
2 million dead Cambodians got a taste of Kennedy’s “social justice” in the killing fields.
A speedy recovery and a speedy exit from that seat of corruption.
Symptom of lifelong excessive alcohol consumption?
>>A speedy recovery and a speedy exit from that seat of corruption.<<
I’m down with that. And a nice sweet retirement too!
Grandpa always said: “Pray for a happy death.”
Where is it? Search me! ;-)
Nonetheless, prayers up for the Senator's repentance.
("Pray for your [political] enemies.")
uuuummm...Are we still under implied orders to be nice?
And which hasn't come due for all of us taxpayers.
Morning withdrawal would be a logical time for alcoholic seizure activity.
I think the father-in-law learned his medicine the same place he learned his ethics.
I'm sure they will. In all probability, Mass General has been keeping this windbag inflated for years now.
Thus significantly lowering the IQ level in the gene pool of bar flies.
Late Saturday afternoon FoxNews was reporting, from a source they said was confirmed, that there were two seizures.
Anybody remember “leaving Las Vegas”, Nicholas Cage starred, sounds like the same thing to me...
DM
Let’s see. Kennedy is an Obama superdelegate. He has seizures. Could die. Do I sense maybe something amiss here? You think maybe Bill Richardson could be getting a tad nervous about now?
Epileptic seizures are common in the elderly.
My father who is now 90 started having them when he was 85. He is fine as long as he takes Dilantin.
The Doctor allowed him to go off of the medicine 2 years after he was seizure free.
They started again - I didn’t know the Doctor took him off - so I thought he was just having bad days - forgetting things. Those were small seizures building up to a large one.
He is back on the medication and is able to drive again (6 months from the date of the last seizure.) I monitor his meds.
I was sort of hoping the Teddy - Chappaquidick (couldn’t he have picked a bridge I could spell?) would completely recover except for one small side affect. He would drool everytime he opened his mouth. Is that really mean?
Epileptic seizures are common in the elderly.
My father who is now 90 started having them when he was 85. He is fine as long as he takes Dilantin.
The Doctor allowed him to go off of the medicine 2 years after he was seizure free.
They started again - I didn’t know the Doctor took him off - so I thought he was just having bad days - forgetting things. Those were small seizures building up to a large one.
He is back on the medication and is able to drive again (6 months from the date of the last seizure.) I monitor his meds.
I was sort of hoping the Teddy - Chappaquidick (couldn’t he have picked a bridge I could spell?) would completely recover except for one small side affect. He would drool everytime he opened his mouth. Is that really mean?
My thinking also. He needs to retire. I wonder if he will. DemonicRats tend to stick around no matter what.
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