Posted on 07/18/2017 5:06:12 AM PDT by servo1969
Senator John McCain recently had surgery to “remove a blood clot above his left eye” according to a CNN report. CNN fortunately didn’t have a chance to wade into their familiar territory of fake news because they had a practicing neurosurgeon, and CNN Chief Medical Correspondent, Dr Sanjay Gupta on hand to discuss Senator McCain’s surgery.
Despite the cheery description, “minimally invasive craniotomy”, this was brain surgery, opening the skull and removing something from the Senator’s brain. Nothing simple or minimal about this. Otherwise neurosurgeons wouldn’t need many years of training to perform such delicate surgery.
Dr. Gupta is correct in calling what was removed from the Senator's brain "an abnormality." It could also be described as "a lesion" or "a mass." Although news articles called it "a blood clot," it was sent to pathology to be reviewed under a microscope to see what was actually removed.
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I hope he recovers but it’s time to retire for him.
He’s had a clot for the last 20 years?
His Rationality Center was likely totally removed.
“Erring on the side of caution, surgeons removed the remainder of McCain’s brain, leaving the clot as a symbol of McCain’s obstruction of Conservative legislation for the past 20 years.”
Hope he gets well soon.
If McLame’s ‘blood clot’ caused erratic behavior I can only imagine what’s inside of Nancy Pelosi’s cranium.
My first thought as well
Calling it a “blood clot” does not mean it was a simple obstruction of a blood vessel. That could be mitigated by various blood thinners and by treatments by various other medications to clear away the clot. This was simply an euphemism for something that was much more serious, and may in fact, be much more life-threatening than has been publicly acknowledged.
The cancer that had afflicted his face and head has metastatized. But then, I was always one who looked for Occam’s Razor, the simplest explanation was probably the most likely.
My first thought as well
Will he be a ‘hero’ again for undergoing surgery?
He must have had that blood clot for something, like, 50 years! No! I'm not being sarcastic!
Bravo. Rofl!!
Correction. He has been a clot on the body politic for 40 years.
It is not McCain's blood clot, even if he has one, that has caused him to so hate the REPUBLIC and embrass the hate filled doctrine of the RINO and the democrat, it is this:
Romans 1:18-32 ACP/KJV
For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men, who hold the truth in unrighteousness; Because that which may be known of God is manifest in them; for God hath shewed it unto them. By the invisible things of Him from the creation of the world are clearly seen, being understood by the things that are made, even His eternal power and Godhead; so that they are without excuse:
Because that, when they knew God, they glorified Him not as God, neither were thankful; but became vain in their imaginations, and their foolish heart was darkened. Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools, changing the glory of the uncorruptible God into an image made like to corruptible man, and to birds, and fourfooted beasts, and creeping things.
Wherefore God also gave them up to uncleanness through the lusts of their own hearts, to dishonour their own bodies between themselves: They who changed the truth of God into a lie, and worshipped and served the creature more than the Creator, who is blessed for ever. Amen.
For this cause God gave them up unto vile affections: for even their women did change the natural use into that which is against nature: And likewise also the men, leaving the natural use of the woman, burned in their lust one toward another; men with men working that which is unseemly, and receiving in themselves that recompence of their error which was meet.
And even as they did not like to retain God in their knowledge, God gave them over to a reprobate mind, to do those things which are not convenient; Being filled with all unrighteousness, fornication, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, debate, deceit, malignity; whisperers, backbiters, haters of God, despiteful, proud, boasters, inventors of evil things, disobedient to parents, without understanding, covenantbreakers, without natural affection, implacable, unmerciful:
Who knowing the judgment of God, that they which commit such things are worthy of death, not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. ACP/KJV
Not at all; he's been a crook (keating 5) leftist suckup and total a$$hole who should caucus with the Democrats as long as I can remember. You may hope he recovers, but he would do the country a great favor if he didn't.
Now I suppose Graham will have to get a clot removed, too.....
As I understand it, a clot is something inside a vein that restricts blood flow. If the blood cannot pass a clot it causes a stroke. I can’t imagine a 2 inch clot not causing a stroke. How could blood pass?
His behavior has been suspect a lot longer than 20 years to some of us. ;-)
So they removed part of his brain.
It’s not like he was using it or anything.
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