Posted on 04/16/2007 12:08:16 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
CAMDEN, N.J. Apr 16, 2007 (AP)— Gov. Jon S. Corzine faces more surgery on his broken leg, the third operation he's needed since an auto crash left him in critical condition.
Doctors at Cooper University Hospital said the surgery scheduled for Monday will be similar to one they performed Saturday, when they cleaned a 6-inch wound in his left thigh. On Sunday, he underwent a procedure to remove fluid that had collected outside his left lung.
The procedure, which lasted less than 15 minutes, is common for patients who sustain a number of rib fractures, and doctors said it was successful, said the governor's spokesman, Anthony Coley.
Corzine was injured Thursday when the sport utility vehicle he was riding in crashed on the Garden State Parkway in Galloway Township, just north of Atlantic City.
The SUV, which was being driven by a state trooper, was hit by another vehicle that swerved to avoid a pickup truck, sending the governor's vehicle into a guard rail.
Corzine had been on his way to a meeting at his mansion in Princeton between radio show host Don Imus and the Rutgers women's basketball team.
The 60-year-old Corzine who apparently was not wearing his seat belt in the front passenger's seat also broke 12 ribs, his breastbone and suffered a broken collarbone. He also had a head laceration and a minor fracture on a lower vertebra.
Corzine remains in critical condition and on a ventilator. However, family members said he recognized them and responded to visitors when they saw him Sunday.
"When you talk to him, he can recognize your voice, that's my feeling," said Joshua Corzine, the eldest of Corzine's two sons. "He definitely responds when you let him know who you are."
Joshua Corzine, 30, who spoke to reporters at the hospital along with his sister, Jennifer Corzine-Pisani, 36, and brother Jeffrey, 24, also thanked the medical staff for the care they've given Corzine and thanked well-wishers from across the country. The governor's children and his girlfriend, Sharon Elghanayan, said they were feeling positive about his condition.
"We're giving him the thumbs-up right now, so we're really feeling good about what's happening," Corzine-Pisani said.
The Clintoon convoy highway shutdowns indirectly caused at least one traffic death that I'm aware of.
His biggest problem is going to be the formation of potentially fatal blood clots.
(1) He wasn't wearing a seatbelt, even though the state troopers he oversees routinely ticket NJ motorists for failure to wear seatbelts.
(2) He was speeding in extremely inclement weather - a common practice for Corzine's predecessor Jim McGreevey was to shuttle back and forth through the state using a 100 mph motorcade of state troopers with sirens blazing. Corzine was using the exact same technique.
(3) Corzine's only companion in the SUV besides his driver was a woman described as a 23 year old aide. She was treated for minor injuries and rushed from the scene.
(4) The reports say he was sitting in the front passenger seat at the moment of impact - but he was found in the rear of the vehicle. I have absolutely no knowledge of what usually happens, but is it common for a full grown man to be flung backwards over the top of a captain's chair and then sustain injuries to his ribs and legs? The physics of the described accident appear bizarre.
Correct, but I feel bad for the guy, sounds like some nasty injuries.
Humans and vehicles don’t mix well.
Not exactly........
I should feel bad, but I just don't. And I'm OK with that.
I know what you mean.
I’ve struggled with my feelings about this guy and another kool aid kook lying in the hospital, but I can’t get away from a sneaking suspicion that either of them dying wouldn’t bother me one iota.
Far from it...
It seems bizarre to me in this day and age that a 60 year old man would be traveling in an official capacity with an entourage consisting in its entirety of a woman young enough to be his granddaughter and a driver whose job is entirely in the politician’s hands.
This doesn't sound good. It makes his son seem like he's hoping that his father is responding to him.
-PJ
You are right, but he should be receiving medication to prevent this and radiology tests to look for any potential thrombosis problems. Sounds like he got a chest tube — not fun.
Actually, the vehicle mixes up the human, quite well.
Thrust never changes direction. If the Gov was moving at the speed of the vehicle and the vehicl suddenly decelerates and or changes direction, the free bodies inside will have that inertial force behind them. If, say. the dash or door or roof etc get in the way of the now flying free body it will do what a rubber ball will do in the same situation: Bounce. All over the place. Unbelievably.
So we are to believe that the Governor's SUV was sideswiped, went off the road and hit an embankment head on.
The SUV was going about 100 mph and the accident took all of about 2 seconds.
Normally when people are beltless in the front passenger seat, they are carried through the windshield on impact.
I.e. the vehicle is traveling forward, hits an obstacle and stops, but inertia carries the hapless passenger forward through the windscreen.
We are to believe that the Governor's body behaved differently from all objects in the known universe and traveled backward at vehicle impact rather than continuing forward until he hit something that stopped him.
Add to this that he supposedly has no head injuries of any kind but only injuries to his ribcage and legs.
I hope a thorough investigation is done - the story and the damage done are irreconcilable as it stands now.
Please. - Teddy made that behavior a rite of passage...
13 year old children get abortions without any parental input at all, while crack smoking felons get elected to high office, while tens of millions of illegal foreigners stream across the border and the only rage is directed against the honest values and ideals of American culture and Western civilization, and you think that this is bizarre?
Hell, its normal of their kind.
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