Posted on 08/25/2011 9:03:31 AM PDT by freespirited
U.S. Rep. Joe Wilson of South Carolina has gone to the hospital because of an extended fever.
Wilson's office said in a short statement Wednesday that the Republican was admitted.
He is best known for being rebuked by the House for shouting, "You lie!" at President Barack Obama in 2009. Wilson later apologized.
The statement contained no other details, including when the congressman was admitted, if he remained in the hospital, or the name of the hospital.
Wilson's office said last week that he was taking antibiotics to treat symptoms of Lyme disease. Previously a little-known lawmaker, after the remark, he drew campaign donations from across the country, and he now regularly appears on cable TV news shows and is a sought-after guest at Republican fundraisers.
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Bad news. I hope this is an early diagnosis.
Guess you haven’t ever had a tick burrow under your skin!
“He is best known for being rebuked by the House for shouting, “You lie!”
This is sickening. It’s from Fox. He’s NOT best knowm for being rebuked for saying it, he’s best known for SAYING it!
No. He is best known for telling the truth about Obzmz, who WAS lying.
Prayers for his speedy recovery.
He is best known as the only member of the House of Representatives that has the ba!!s to tell the truth.
Sorry to hear this, its a horrible disease, my Sister has it.
Prayers....
You lay!
(...in a hospital bed...until you get better.)
He’s lucky it got diagnosed. Medicine hasn’t gotten a real good handle on this one yet.
Best wishes for successful treatment. Lyme Disease is a bad one.
Fox is deteriorating faster than the U.S. dollar.
His folks thought he had crippling arthritis. Poor kid could not even write with a pencil, it hurt so bad.
He went to hospital three times a week for some sort of treatment.
Actually ticks are not the primary source for the disease.
The ticks get the disease when they bite the white footed mouse, that carry the disease in their blood.
Professor You Lie, currently on leave from the Chicago School of Bureaucratic Socialism, will almost certainly include “best wishes” to Honest Joe Wilson in You Lie’s much anticipated September speech.
People close to Professor You Lie are fairly certain that he will actually give his speech BEFORE the third anniversary of the permanent cancellation of the troublesome US Federal Budget.
Re-debt-we-can Party members could not be reached for comment. Debt-o-crat Party members deferred to Robo-Congressman Sub-Prime-Barney, who had no comment.
with obama amnesty illegals aliens are now going to recieve OBAMACARE.
IOW Obama DID LIE on national TV.
Hopefully he was just infected and has a prominent bullseye rash.
Lyme disease is as political as AIDS in the 80s. And most of us don’t get diagnosed (DX) till too late and by then most of us can’t get treatment or spend $100,000 to get it,. Most doctors won’t treat it and surely won’t diagnose it. The ones that do, have to have so many lawyers on retainer to fight the government so they are priced out of reach for many of us with Lyme. Our family has lost everything including our home soon due to Lyme, spent all your savings, and the last of my insurance after loosing my dream career and becoming disabled just trying to get DX and then spending what’s left on all the mis-DX and bad/wrong treatments which assured the disability was permanent. Mine were 6 surgeries and cortisone poisoning, which is like candy to Lyme bacteria and almost killed me. Medicare if I ever get it, fighting for 4 years disabled for 5, now have 2 yr waiting period,(probably be gone then) and it will not pay for long term Antibiotic treatment for the chronic form which is the only proven MEDICAL treatment (That’s the politics part if it is chronic Lyme or Immune disease after Lyme). But not being DX for 38 yrs and having positive test for Lyme Bacteria and my whole family half of which is also sick w/ mis-DX Lyme now DX and so much discarded science that they still will not research adequately to find out and they allow a panel of 12 idiots who have monetary stakes in keeping the disease status as is, decide on this. 200,000 people a year catch it and about half never get DX and many of those will get sick, could be 20 -30 yrs later and could look like fibromyalgia if DX with these I mention PLEASE get TESTED for LYME!!! Get the western blot test and skip the Elisa test or insist on both at the same time. Elisa is about 30-40% effective and if it comes back negative they won’t test further and they weed out 60% of people who DO have Lyme that way. MS, Fibromyalgia, ALS, heart problems, chronic fatigue, Parkinson, and my favorite “it’s all in your head” syndrome are all Mis-DX for Lyme. If you have been DX with these please get a Lyme test. MOSTLY FM and CFS!!!
God Bless,
CJ.
“(Land of the free my @ss)”
So TRUE...lol!!
Americans are like frogs in cold water not noticing how hot it gets till too late!!!!!!
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