Posted on 05/17/2008 9:02:55 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
HYANNIS -- U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy was rushed by ambulance to Cape Cod Hospital this morning after falling ill at the Kennedy compound in Hyannisport.
Hyannis fire responded to the compound after a call was made around 8:30 a.m. It's unclear what Kennedy's medical condition is, but after he spent almost two hours in the emergency room a decision was made to transfer him to Mass General Hospital in Boston.
Kennedy, 76, was placed on a stretcher and wheeled out to the MedFlight helicopter around 10:15 a.m. where it took off from Barnstable Municipal Airport.
The Kennedy family is preparing to host the annual Best Buddies Challenge event in Hyannisport this afternoon, which is a fund-raiser for the organization. Best Buddies was founded by Anthony Kennedy Shriver and helps people with intellectual disabilities.
Hundreds are expected to participate in the event, which kicked off this morning with a 100-mile bicycle ride from the Kennedy Library in Boston to Hyannisport.
A concert at the Kennedy compound is scheduled for tonight.
Kennedy has represented Massachusetts in the United States Senate for forty-three years.
He was elected in 1962 to finish the final two years of the Senate term of his brother, Senator John F. Kennedy, who was elected president in 1960.
Since then, Kennedy has been re-elected to seven full terms, and is now the second most senior member of the Senate.
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She suffered enough. I hope she wasn't sent there to welcome him.
Drudge is definitely way behind this one, no siren on his site, and it’s been over an hour since I first saw the news.
Now they have Mike Barnicle (ugh) on and he implied that it was NOT a stroke and that the prognosis is good.
” Drudge still has not put this up. Strange...”
It’s Sat. morning, some people sleep in.......
Fox News is running the story.
“...but after so long he more than likely thinks he hasn’t done anything wrong. The people of Mass. made sure of that!”
Yes, he has had plenty of enablers urging him along. Like you, I wonder if he even recognizes that he is so terribly wrong on abortion and homosexuality.
FNC reporting that Hyannisport ambulance responded to a “9-1-1 call” transporting Senator Kennedy to Cape Cod hospital before he was airlifted to Boston.
Thanks for that story. Prayers for the Kennedy family.
‘It would appear that FreeRepublic has been over run by individuals who lack the maturity necessary to discuss politics without being hateful...might as well be reading DU or kos.”
Lieberman is a politician whom I respect although I disagree with nearly every position he has. There is a huge difference.
FNC: “9-1-1 call was placed at 8:19am”
Dittos.
I worked at CCH ..over 25 years ago ;) when it was a small local hospital. It’s gotten a whole lot more sophisticated over the years- and several of my family members with major cardiac problems received excellent care from the cardiac team there.
We were probably “neighbors”..I lived in Centerville.
That’s a Carotid Endarterectomy. I had one a few months ago, I was home in less than 24 hours. On my left side, I look like I lost a knife fight. :-)
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