George Michael's condition worsened overnight say doctors

viennatimes.at ^ | November 25, 2011 | Vienna Times

[Berlin_Freeper]

The hospital refused to say why the star was moved but it is believed it was decided that the singer's condition was so acute that it would be better if he was moved to the AKH - the biggest in Europe and where many of the continent's top medical experts are based because of the advanced facilities it offers for research as well as treatment.

The hospital has two skyscrapers, identified for navigating around the huge complex as the red tower and the green tower. He is currently in intensive care on the 13th floor of the red tower as a result of heart problems believed to be caused by the shortage of oxygen caused by his pneumonia.

On Thursday afternoon he was fitted into a special full-body bed designed to keep all the pressure off his lungs and to help them to function - so far without any sign of improvement.

[Signalman]

HIV, no doubt.

[vpintheak]

The column reads towards the end about HIV. Sad

[GQuagmire]

does he have the Hi Five?

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Doesn’t sound good. I’m sure his ‘lifestyle’ and drug use has done him no favors. Sad.

[gaijin]

The immune system of most gay guys are under a WAY higher degree of compromise than straights —the typical LISTED cause of death of men with AIDS at least in San Francisco is pneumonia or tuberculosis.

Their immune system is constantly having to fight off bad stuff, so they finally fall prey to something opportunistic —that’s true even if they don’t have AIDS, actually.

[RockinRight]

I don’t want to speculate, but this sounds a lot like what they do with someone who has full-blown AIDS.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Prayers for his health.

[animal172]

Any chance he could just succumb to his voluntary contracted illness and be done with it? Get him out of our misery. Sorry folks. Just not feeling anyone’s pain today.

[RockinRight]

It might be his...”Last Christmas”.

[bgill]

Reads like the color of the hospital towers are the important part of the story. Someone slept through Journalism 101.

[Red_Devil 232]

He looks queerish.

[Joe 6-pack]

"I’m sure his ‘lifestyle’ and drug use has done him no favors. Sad."

It is sad; while many in the American pro-life movement picked up on the "Choose Life" t-shirts he wore in an early video, I believe the slogan actually originated from a British anti-drug campaign.

[Berlin_Freeper]

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[ReformationFan]

True. It’s a good idea not to do certain things with one’s body. Being chaste and abstaining from homosexual sex has never killed anybody.

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Yep. Drug abuse and suicide if I’m not mistaken.

[RockinRight]

I won’t wish any ill on the man, but this sounds more and more like AIDS.

[YankeeReb]

Any chance he could just succumb to his voluntary contracted illness and be done with it? Get him out of our misery. Sorry folks. Just not feeling anyone’s pain today.

It's a horrible disease and a miserable death , but George Michael has been a poster child for a certain "lifestyle" for decades so I suppose it was only a matter of time. I feel bad for him. the same way I'd pity a 2 pack a day smoker who's dying of lung cancer. It's a bad way to go but no surprise.

[Steely Tom]

It's a horrible disease and a miserable death , but George Michael has been a poster child for a certain "lifestyle" for decades so I suppose it was only a matter of time. I feel bad for him. the same way I'd pity a 2 pack a day smoker who's dying of lung cancer. It's a bad way to go but no surprise.

I'm sure he has lots of thrilling memories to keep him company. =shudder=

[jdsteel]

No, it was from an anti-teen suicide movement