Posted on 03/08/2005 8:09:24 AM PST by Howlin
You are right.
We have to face the fact that this is what Fox does; at least we can get real news there.
Deal.
Breaking: Bill Clinton to Undergo More Medical Procedures Removing fluid from chest!Okay, okay. I'm exercising great restraint and will post with civility. :^D
Please let me know if you want ON or OFF my General Interest ping list!. . .don't be shy.
My guess would be it's a pleural effusion... ( sometimes a symptom of CHF..) that's causing some volume loss in his left lung. Not scar tissue....which doesn't make any sense...based on the info.
I won't wish him well, but neither will I wish him ill at this time. He's still something of an american.
No kidding. That’s been getting waaaay too much play… glory for an unrepentant convicted and paroled felon. Amazing, actually.
KRLA says that the lower lobe of his left lung has collapsed.
I just thought of this...why would they send two ex-Presidents ON SUCH A LONG FLIGHT on a plane, with only one bunk? Does that make sense? Is this 'Bubba gave up the bunk' just urban legend?
Adding another coverage piece on.
Mar 8, 2005 11:23 am US/Eastern
(1010 WINS) (NEW YORK) Former President Clinton, who underwent quadruple bypass surgery in September, will undergo a medical procedure Thursday to remove fluid and scar tissue from his left chest, his office announced.
The procedure, which happens occasionally as a result of open-heart surgery, will take place Thursday at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center. He will remain in the hospital for three to 10 days, his office said in a statement.
Clinton was proceeding with his schedule on Tuesday and planned to be at a White House event later in the day, according to his spokesman, Jim Kennedy.
Clinton, 58, had been quite active since his Sept. 6 heart surgery in New York, presiding over the opening of his presidential library in Little Rock, Ark. and, more recently, joining the first President Bush for a public relations campaign to help raise private funds for the victims of the tsunami in Southwest Asia.
Clinton underwent quadruple coronary artery bypass surgery last fall after suffering chest pains and shortness of breath.
In bypass surgery, doctors remove one or more blood vessels from elsewhere in the body and attach them to arteries serving the heart, detouring blood around blockages. The vessel typically comes from elsewhere in the chest, although doctors sometimes take one from an arm, a leg or the stomach.
Clinton previously blamed his blockage in part on genetics - there is a history of heart disease in his mother's family - but also said he "may have done some damage in those years when I was too careless about what I ate."
As president, Clinton was an avid jogger also known for his love of fast food. He has appeared much slimmer since early in the year, when he said he had cut out junk food, gone on the South Beach diet - which limits carbohydrates and fats - and started a workout regimen.
Clinton had a cancerous growth removed from his back shortly after leaving office. In 1996, he had a precancerous lesion removed from his nose and a year before that had a benign cyst taken off his chest.
But otherwise, Clinton suffered only the usual problems that often accompany normal aging and a taste for junk food - periods of slightly elevated cholesterol and hearing loss. In 1997, he was fitted with hearing aids, and he also battled allergies.
http://1010wins.com/topstories/local_story_067111642.html
Why do you want him to wake up in jail? Is it illegal to have scar tissue removed from your heart or do they have better recovery and medical facilities in your local lock up?
Saddam and Clinton equals? Nah, Saddam was always more honest.
You could just see the wheels turning in hillory's mind during the Reagan funeral. I'm sure she envied poor Nancy.
Very well said.
I should know to wait for more info.....
Oh that's a given. What I wonder - is which image hillathehun will choose to portray?
And Howlin, I thank you for this important post. Hope you're doing well. :-)
I am wondering if it's worse than they are making out.
The doctor on Fox seemed very surprised at the length of his stay.
Remember he stayed in the hospital a long time after the first operation.
Unfortunately, your message *did* have to be posted.
Wheneven somebody is "removing fuild" from Clinton I get worried.
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