Posted on 02/02/2022 12:28:59 AM PST by 11th_VA
SANTA FE, N.M. — U.S. Sen. Ben Ray Luján is currently being hospitalized after experiencing a stroke last Thursday morning.
According to his chief of staff, Carlos Sanchez, Luján was experiencing dizziness and fatigue and checked himself into Christus St. Vincent Regional Hospital in Santa Fe. He was later transferred to UNM Hospital in Albuquerque.
“Sen. Luján was found to have suffered a stroke in the cerebellum, affecting his balance. As part of his treatment plan, he subsequently underwent decompressive surgery to ease swelling," Sanchez said.
We talked to KOAT health expert Dr. Barry Ramo to better understand precisely what that means.
We talked to KOAT health expert Dr. Barry Ramo to better understand precisely what that means.
"In the spectrum of strokes, this is an unusual type of stroke. The cerebellum is a fundamental structure in the brain. It has to do with coordination has to do with vision, has to do with speech has to do with movement," said Dr. Ramo.
The senator underwent decompressive surgery to reduce the swelling in his brain and is now resting at UNM hospital, but what does recovery look like after something like this?
"The recovery time depends on how much damage has occurred as a consequence of the stroke," said Dr. Ramo.
Dr. Ramo believes his young age will play a critical role in the road to recovery.
"There are many things in Senator Luján's favor. One is his youth, and he's otherwise been healthy. The fact that they did the surgery, and the surgeon feels that he's going to have full recovery is excellent news," said Dr. Ramo…
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“Devine intervention”
it certainly seems that way ... AGAIN ...
Thanks for the info.
Its the most obvious first question.
The next is, did he receive a placebo vexx shot like all faithful “in crowd” deep staters and globalists do? If so, his illness would presumably have a different (non-eyebrow-raising) cause.
“Would you retain a doctor who encouraged you to keep getting COVID shots?”
actually, no.
i lost total respect for an integrative physician i’d been going to for decades, someone who always thought and prescribed outside the box whenever necessary, and who had a reputation for diagnosing and treating difficult chronic conditions ...
but last time i went to see him for a script refill he spent most of the time haranguing me about getting vaxed even though i told him i didn’t want to waste time talking about it and that i’d been told by another doc many years ago that i should never get vaxxed due to my numerous autoimmune conditions ...
since the doc charges cash and by the hour, he ran up my bill talking about stuff i told him i didn’t want to talk about ... interestingly enough, he dropped the mask thing in his office because he said HE was vaxxed, so he must have thought he was bullet-proof ...
but subsequently, his webpage says he’ll no longer take in-person consultations, only phone and video consultations, so i assume he lost faith in the vaxes, even though he’s still pushing them like crazy on his website ...
but bottom line, what kind of damn doctor is so scared of the wuflu that he won’t see patients? ... how many other professions can get away with that kind of virtual-only business? certainly no one who has to repair anything in the field, stock shelves or do retail checkout, etc. ...
“Nothing so far on Fox at all.”
fox is now a complete wasteland as it’s obvious that their talking heads have all been ordered not to mention HCQ, IVR, or really anything related to covid or the vaccines or their consequences, such as not working for omicron, side-effects, etc. ...
as a result, jesse and tucker have zero to say of interest anymore, simply repeating news already published from earlier in the day by numerous other sources ... the talking heads also quit having top leadership guests that actually had important things to say, like Rand Paul and Jim Jordan ... instead, the talking heads have a bunch of random nobodies who just parrot back what the talking heads say, only with lots of stuttering and irrelevant tangential meanderings ...
consequently, we’ve now completely stopped watching FNC ...
I tuned in MSNBC very early this morning, before Morning Joe - they were well aware of the ramifications. I think the news is suppressing this now. Might have Rats, jumping out of windows. Even Schumer is saying it won’t affect the agenda (BS. This is a MAJOR downer for the Rats - they don’t want to demoralize their supporters …
Not quite. Current Senate count is 49-48 in favor of Rats. Team Biden down Lujan, but Team Rino is down Mitt and one other, whose name’s escaping me, for Covid quarantine. Latter two expected back next week.
I believe there are a number of states where the state constitution requires a governor or a process he heads to select a replacement from the same party as the outgoing Senator.
Hope he recovers fully, otherwise the Dems lose their majority if he can’t get to D.C. to vote.
"DNC did a job on me Now I am a real sickee Guess I better tell 'em I got no cerebellum All the world's eyes on me Cuz I got a craniectomy Craniectomy! Craniectomy!" |
There are three broad categories of what states do in the event of a Senate vacancy:-PJ
- States where the governor cannot appoint a senator; instead, a special election must be held. There are five states in this category:
- North Dakota,
- Oklahoma,
- Oregon,
- Rhode Island,
- Wisconsin.
- States where the governor can appoint a new senator on a temporary basis, but is restricted by law to choosing a senator of the same party as the previous senator. There are seven states in this category:
- Arizona,
- Hawaii,
- Maryland,
- Montana,
- North Carolina,
- Utah,
- Wyoming.
- The governor can appoint a new senator on a temporary basis and doesn’t have any restrictions on what party that senator needs to belong to. There are 38 states in this category — every state except for those listed above.
Thanks for that detailed support and also the great link.
Sorry but my tolerance of Democrats went out the window a long time ago.
They want us conservatives shut up, locked up and dead. Pay them back in their own coin I say.
Any dog or cat is smarter than Joe Biden. He needs to go.
Or he may get a visit from Hillary.
It’s ‘’saying’’ and I’ll say what I damn well please.
I hope your right that recovery will be long. I want him to live, but not attend the senate, as long as there is a dem governor in NM. Maybe we can replace her on January 1.
Do you have a pencil thin mustache to go with that picture?
And you think that when they return, Team Mittens won’t turncoat?
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