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Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin treated for prostate cancer, developed severe infection, Pentagon reveals
CNBC ^ | 1/9/23 | Rebecca Picciotto

Posted on 01/09/2024 11:56:48 AM PST by CFW

Email Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin has been hospitalized since Jan. 1 for complications following a surgery to treat prostate cancer, officials at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center said Tuesday.

The news of Austin’s treatment and condition came after a tortious week during which Austin was hospitalized, but the Pentagon refused to say why.

Austin underwent the initial prostate cancer surgery on Dec. 25, during which he was under general anesthesia, according to doctors from Walter Reed.

On Jan. 1, Austin experienced complications from the surgery including nausea and severe abdominal, hip and leg pain, which was later identified as a urinary tract infection. On Jan. 2, he was admitted to the intensive care unit at Walter Reed where he was treated for intestinal issues.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: austin; biden; secdef; secrecy
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To: Flag_This

The surgery was on the 22nd.

Actually a lot of elective surgery is done the days before Christmas as most people will take the next week off from work. It is probably the least productive week of the year.


21 posted on 01/09/2024 12:17:52 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.y out)
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To: Labyrinthos

+1, my response was 100% sarcasm :)


22 posted on 01/09/2024 12:18:06 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Ezekiel

This article does not jibe with what the Pentagon just said. The date the pentagon just said was the ‘22nd.

But the real question is did he get taken to see a space alien for their annual meeting?


23 posted on 01/09/2024 12:19:34 PM PST by Vermont Lt (Don’t vote for anyone over 70 years old. Get rid of the geriatric politicians.y out)
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To: webheart

The word is not at the source. Maybe caught and changed after original was posted?


24 posted on 01/09/2024 12:22:42 PM PST by jjotto ( Blessed are You LORD, who crushes enemies and subdues the wicked.)
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To: pfflier
"It really sounds like the drs nicked his colon while dealing with the prostate cancer."

They nicked something. I had a temporary colostomy for a perforated bowel in 2010, and came out of it with no infection. Had the reversal three months later, as well as a repair to an incisional hernia where the stoma had been a year later, and had my gall bladder surgically (not laparoscopically) removed in 2015, and had no infections of any kind after any of them. And as far as I know they never gave me antibiotics after any of those surgeries, and they never sent me home with any.

25 posted on 01/09/2024 12:24:25 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: mass55th

Sad that nicking the colon sounds common, guy in my office went thru the same thing.


26 posted on 01/09/2024 12:26:56 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: CFW

So first an “elective procedure” on the 22nd, then prostate surgery on the 25th, then ICU on the 1st. If the elective procedure was a biopsy, then the surgery 3 days later (on Christmas Day), then the biopsy result must have been pretty bad, requiring emergent treatment/removal. Most prostate cancer is pretty slow, but some forms are very aggressive.


27 posted on 01/09/2024 12:27:00 PM PST by ETCM (“There is no security, no safety, in the appeasement of evil.” — Ronald Reagan)
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To: CFW
Austin underwent the initial prostate cancer surgery on Dec. 25, during which he was under general anesthesia, according to doctors from Walter Reed.

It must be very serious to have surgery on Christmas Day.

But more to the point... why all the secrecy and hush - hush?!

28 posted on 01/09/2024 12:28:36 PM PST by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
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To: CFW

The Xiao Bai Dung regime couldn’t tell the truth, even if it benefitted them.


29 posted on 01/09/2024 12:29:27 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: Labyrinthos

but how do you really feel?

get your prostate exam.


30 posted on 01/09/2024 12:30:03 PM PST by teeman8r (Armageddon won't be pretty, but it's not like it's the end of the world or something )
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To: CFW

Now we know what it wasn’t.


31 posted on 01/09/2024 12:32:11 PM PST by bray (You can tell who the Commies fear.)
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To: Labyrinthos

“Your an idiot.”

The jokes just write themselves.


32 posted on 01/09/2024 12:32:25 PM PST by Laslo Fripp (Doesn’t anybody proofread anymore?)
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To: hinckley buzzard

Yeah.


33 posted on 01/09/2024 12:33:51 PM PST by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual.)
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To: 1Old Pro
"Sad that nicking the colon sounds common, guy in my office went thru the same thing."

On another thread yesterday, I posted the reminder that on February 8, 2010, then Democrat Congressman John Murtha (Pa.) died at Virginia Hospital Center in Arlington, Va., where he was admitted on Jan. 31. The gallbladder surgery was performed days earlier at the National Naval Medical Center, in Bethesda, Md. They nicked his large intestine during the operation.

34 posted on 01/09/2024 12:35:26 PM PST by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: CFW

I knew that it had to be something related to the prostate or the penis.

Only a man HIS AGE would want to keep this quiet.


35 posted on 01/09/2024 12:35:32 PM PST by Karoo
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To: CFW

It’s a story.

Who the heck knows if it’s true.

We don’t.


36 posted on 01/09/2024 12:35:42 PM PST by mewzilla (Never give up; never surrender!)
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To: CFW

An email taylor swift’s dad sent a former manager recently made the internet rounds again. It comes off as unhinged.

In it he talks about having his prostrate sucked out by a robot and having to wear a diaper for 7 weeks. I assume because of prostate cancer. I don’t know if it was before or after he was picking up 15,000 rubber ducks out of the river.

If anyone wants to know what it takes to make it in the music biz you should take a look at Scott Swift’s email.


37 posted on 01/09/2024 12:36:05 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: Flag_This

My question as well. Who has “elective” surgery on Christmas Day?


38 posted on 01/09/2024 12:37:23 PM PST by CFW (I will not comply!)
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To: mass55th
They nicked his large intestine during the operation.

It's not the nick that kills you, it's the sepsis.

39 posted on 01/09/2024 12:39:38 PM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: Vermont Lt

The surgery was on the 22nd.

Actually a lot of elective surgery is done the days before Christmas as most people will take the next week off from work. It is probably the least productive week of the year.


FTA ...

Austin underwent the initial prostate cancer surgery on Dec. 25

So, you know, personally, that CNBC is lying?

Were you with Austin, at the hospital? Just curious.


40 posted on 01/09/2024 12:43:11 PM PST by Jane Long (What we were told was a conspiracy theory in ‘20 is now fact. Land of the sheep, home of the knaves)
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