Posted on 04/24/2012 5:54:41 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Former Vice President Dick Cheney has thanked the family that saved his life by donating a new heart to him and revealed he used to smoke up to 60 cigarettes a day. Speaking for the first time about his recent surgery, the 71-year-old former chain-smoker said: 'It's the kind of gift that's unbelievable.' Mr Cheney received a new organ from an unknown donor on March 24 at Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Virginia.
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Now, to get any in depth news about the best Vice-President in the last 100+ years, we have to turn to a UK source.
Of course, most of the critical news reported about Obama in the last 3 years, at least in the "print" or written media, comes from Europe.
I’m not surprised. And isn’t it just like our VP to always thank the donor and their family and offer prayers. I so much miss that kind of character in our leaders. My one friend and I have talked about who we’d like to be neighbors with in politics. The Cheney family is at the top of my list (followed by the Palins) I would love to have them at a backyard barbeque and just listen to what he had to say..
Zipper club ping! Quad bypass in my case. Also 71 this year.
Speaking of the VP. Biden needs a brain transplant.
If Biden had brain surgery, it would be considered exploratory surgery.
Micro surgery
Cheney / Palin ‘12 !!!
He wouldn’t need a transplant...just an implant.
And he took his turn on the waiting list. IMHO, that cannot be repeated too often. No special treatment, no big push for “compassion”, etc. He just waited his turn.
Cheney is at the very top of my list of most admired people in politics.
A friend of mine’s father is a truck driver from the Dubuque, Iowa area. Late last week he was driving out in the Maryland area and stopped in a hospital with classic heart-attack symptoms. It wasn’t a heart attack, but they said he was going nowhere before having a triple-bypass.
He was lined up to go to Johns Hopkins but they kept putting him off. Ended up in a DC hospital. His family was disappointed, but then they found out the the Dr. had just done Cheney’s transplant. I reassured this friend that his dad was in good hands...
I was unzipped 31 years ago for six bypass surgery.
And I’m 86 this year.
Wow! I can imagine how tough that was. Back then they really must have worked you over. Mine was bad enough but that was in January 09.
Hope I get 31 extra years!
Also I forgot to mention that part of my procedure was done with this method: http://robotic-surgery.med.nyu.edu/for-patients/our-departments/cardiothoracic/procedures/coronary-bypass-procedures
I now understand they are doing complete bypass operations this way
To listen to my liberal “friends”, the story they tell is this: Too old to have a transplant. Pushed to the top because he is rich. That heart should have gone to a young person. In his place, they would not have it done. He lived his life and he should just have died (wouldn’t they have celebrated at that, they consider him an evil person).
When I told them that he is only 6 years older than Clinton, that he had to wait for his turn, that they had no right to tell another person when to die and that to have an organ transplant one has to go through rigorous testing and matching, they shrugged and stuck to their stories. Sickening. Of course if one day Clinton should need a transplant they would all be on their knees praying for his health.
Hmmmm, here’s one here, from Abbie Normal!
I am a member of the club too.
I was told I might have 6 months left without surgery to remove the sack from around my heart and I needed 3 bypasses. Removal of the sack was successful, one artery was 100% blocked but the heart was feed by alternate veins, so they left it alone and just went with one bypass.
I had a stroke during surgery, contracted MRSA, extending my stay in the hospital from about 8 days, to 2 long and painful months. I don’t have the zipper, I have a gash, because they had to cut so much out due to the MRSA.
BUT, I have made it for almost 5 years!!! I am now 63.
I doubt that I’ll make it to 71 and I certainly won’t make it to 86.... I am not budgeted to live that long. LOL
Beautiful.... I love the beauty of your state.
Were is not for my “will to live”, I would have already been dead several times over.
I thought the same thing. Was 55 when the surgery was done.
Trick is to keep ticking and breathing.
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