Posted on 12/27/2002 9:08:25 AM PST by Cynderbean
Mayor And Wife Both Admitted To ER With Stomach Flu
Hospital Spokesperson Declines To Give Reason For VisitPOSTED: 10:25 a.m. CST December 27, 2002
UPDATED: 11:09 a.m. CST December 27, 2002CHICAGO -- Shortly after 10 a.m. Friday, Mayor Richard M. Daley and his wife Maggie were both admitted to the emergency room of Northwestern Memorial Hospital.
A hospital spokesperson confirmed that both the mayor and his wife were being "checked out" in the emergency room. A source told NBC5 that the two were taken to the hospital in separate vehicles.
At a news conference outside the hospital around 11 a.m., a doctor said the mayor and his wife were both suffering from the stomach flu, with violent vomiting, diarrhea and fainting episodes.
The doctor said Maggie Daley may have broken a rib during a fainting episode, when she fell onto a carpeted floor, on her right side. The doctor said he expected an x-ray to confirm that diagnosis.
The doctor said both Daleys first got sick last night.
(On second thought, no, there is no such thing as bad Italian beef.)
What a shame.
Stay Safe !!
I don't think therre is any such thing. Many years ago the State Board of Health of California analyzed several hundred cases of stomach flu. They found the influenza virus not at all. They did find about 92% of the patients had bacillary dysentery...an entirely different breed of cat.
[Influenza is a virus spread by inhalation. Bacillary dysentery is caused by a bacterium, usually a species of Shigella, and is spread by fecal contamination {i.e., poop}.]
If I remember correctly, the elder Hizzoner was visiting his physician on North Michigan Ave (I believe that's where he was). Apparently he was visiting the doc and he dropped right there in the office. Again, memory could be failing me, but I believe those were the circumstances.
I had this recently. I had only fainted once in the previous 50+ years, but in one horrible night, I fainted twice. I still have the bruises.
A couple of special therapy treatments from my D. O., and I was fine within 12 hours.
Do the ER docs
check the mayor's underwear?
We have FOX news here...
Yes, that is exactly what happened. I remember it vividly. Mayor Daley had been the dominant figure in Chicago for my whole life up to that point (about 1977).
Born in the city of Chicago in 1953 and lived there through 1984
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