Posted on 07/20/2022 10:30:47 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — Vermont U.S. Sen. Patrick Leahy has undergone a second surgery to help repair a broken hip, his office said Wednesday.
Leahy, 82, fell and broke his hip last month in his Virginia home. He underwent hip-replacement surgery June 30 at a Washington-area hospital. He was then moved to a rehabilitation center.
On Wednesday, Leahy’s office said his surgeons found it necessary to perform an additional operation on the hip “to help advance his recovery.”
Leahy was back in his rehabilitation room by Tuesday evening. He is working with physical therapists “to return home as soon as possible.”
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Well, he does belong to the Party of the Donkey.
Yes, years ago my recently widowed mom fell and broke her wrist. It was just a steady downhill slide after that. She passed within three years.
:)
Ping!
Infected implant probably, or bones not growing back fast enough....or sloppy surgery. Or.... it’s his time. Hope for the best.
yup. I don’t know why it is that so many politicians have no interest in ever retiring and would prefer to die in office.
Retire already, Leaky.
While he is in there, a bit of alcohol DETOX wouldnt hurt the old buzzard either
Let us pray he refuses to retire until January and that he isn’t healthy enough to return to the senate. He is not running for re-election. Now, let’s pray that a Republican replaces him.
It would be a damned shame if they ran out of pain pills
Let’s hope the staph doesn’t ..LEAK.
my father fell and broke his hip. After the operation to fix it, he died of a heart-attack. We think it was heart problems that caused him to fall/collapse in the first place.
Arrogance. Hubris. No religious faith. They have spent their lives accumulating money and power, its all they know. Their life has zero meaning beyond it. They could never admit - there are others who have more energy and brain-power than me who would be better in the job.
[[yup. I don’t know why it is that so many politicians have no interest in ever retiring and would prefer to die in office.]]
because they dread being home all day with their spouses?
Never mind the hip, he needs surgery on a broken mind.
Pretty soon they'll need a bunch of wheelchairs to push the likes of Leahy and Feinstein and Biden around.
Mortality in hip fracture patients is 3 fold higher than that in the general population . Bye bye leaky Leahy.
Thank you. That was going to be my question: Nancy Pelosi’s dictatorship allows democrats in the House to “vote by mail”. So the Senate now only only can get 49 (social communists (er, democrats) on the floor for their next vote? Or 48? Somebody else had a stroke recently.
My mother in law broke her left wrist in early December. Still trying to recover. Worse, her right side fine muscle control was destroyed by a stroke 18 months before that. Difficult, and she fights getting help and resuming her PT. Would rather sit and watch TV movies.
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