Pataki Remains Hospitalized; No Discharge Date Set

The Associated Press ^ | 27 February 2006 | (AP)

[george76]

Gov. George Pataki remained hospitalized Monday nearly a week after undergoing a surgery to correct a postoperative complication related to an emergency appendectomy.

Pataki, 60, continued eating some food Monday but also remained on intravenous nutrition and antibiotics to reduce the risk of an abscess...

`The governor's doctors have indicated that there has been a slow return of normal digestive function because of the ruptured appendix,'' ...

Pataki was originally to be released two days after the Feb. 16 appendectomy.

``The governor continues to be in good spirits and is reading, walking around and conducting state business,'' ...

[jocon307]

"It sounds to me like they may have found something else besides a ruptured appendix."

Yes, there must be something seriously wrong with him. Ernie Fletcher of KY is still in the hospital too, although he may be sent home in a day or two, but he will still be on IV antibiotics. He had surgery for a gall stone and had complications and developed an infection.

I wish them both a speedier recovery than they've had so far.

[mewzilla]

Boy, the NYP doesn't pull any punches, does it?

[Galveston Grl]

Ruptured appendicitis is very serious. I know someone who almost died from that in her twenties.

[george76]

I read some time ago that Ruptured appendicitis was the number one killer of men until the 1930's when penicillin was discovered.

Child birth was number one for women.

[george76]

"Still showing signs of fever nearly two weeks after undergoing an emergency appendectomy."

http://www.wcbs880.com/pages/10925.php

Ruptured appendicitis is very serious.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) died of ruptured appendicitis just a couple of years ago.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

That is hilarious and true.