Posted on 09/03/2004 9:03:10 AM PDT by LisaFab
Especially his Sinatra.
Same here. Hartman was truly a talented comedian. As for the Big Mac Attack skit...I recall it included Bubba grabbing fries from another person's tray and stuffing his face. LOL
No, indeed, that kind of surgery is no cakewalk. As one doctor (not involved in my heart case) told me, "That is major, major, major surgery."
I suppose that Clinton should be OK by sometime in November, especially since he has the benefit of being much younger than the average by-pass surgery patient.
Thanks much for your kind words.
I suppose that some benefit more than others from the operation. I don't detect any increase in stamina.
Like you, I think my short-term memory (such as it was anyway) has been a bit lessened by the process in which they stop your heart and put you on the heart-lung machine.
That breastbone scar is really something (scary-looking at first, wasn't it?) but mine seems to be fading pretty fast, as does the scar created when they ripped out an artery from my left forearm. (They got the other two from "mammary arteries", whatever those are.)
There must be some sort of triage involved. With me, they examined me for possible use of a stent using the angiogram procedure; at mid-point, they stopped and said, "Sorry, but a stent won't work" and immediately (within 36 hours) put me on the operating table. I had already had a mild heart attack and I suppose they were anxious to preclude another.
Sorry to hear about the cervical arthritis. I escaped that. That must be darn painful.
tubebender, you're definitely stronger than the OldPossum.
I, too, was walking around on the third day, and I was kicked out of the hospital fairly early from my perspective, on the seventh day. When I got home, I was instructed to do some walking every day...and I did, but the surface had to be level. I tried walking up a 40 degree slope shortly after getting home but couldn't make it.
It took me two months before I felt halfway decent and four months before I felt right again.
I was told that the recovery times vary enormously. One nurse told me that a patient, a burly farmer, required six months before he felt "normal" again.
Regarding the cocaine use: I wonder if he really ever stopped.
Why are they waiting several days to do the surgery? Is it because the topnotch surgeons are on vacation and won't be back until Tuesday or Wednesday? Or do they have to de-tox Bubba before putting him under deep anesthesia for four hours?
Thanks for that explanation. I had been wondering the same thing--how all those expensive physicals at Walter Reed showed up no heart problems.
Hillary didn't fail to use Bill's condition as political fuel.
Secret Service agents better keep Hitlery out of the room as he recovers. Can you imagine Hitlery wearing old crusty (looking like a black widow spider)"pulling the plug" - so she could be the "Widow Clinton" gaining massive public sympathy for her presidential run in 2008!>
late reply. few in my experience seem to grasp the significance of mortality or their gift of continuing life, either soon after a cardiac event or much later. the ones who do get it make you stop and listen closely to grab every nuance.
btw, good luck in your chosen studies (i started in your field and gravitated to neurosciences)...
Thank you. I feel good.
That he would be healed and give his life to the Lord.
That was a given, wasn't it?
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