Posted on 12/30/2009 8:50:02 PM PST by My Favorite Headache
HONOLULU -- Conservative radio talk host Rush Limbaugh was rushed to a Honolulu hospital on Wednesday afternoon with chest pains, sources told KITV.
Paramedics responded to the call at 2:41 p.m. at the Kahala Hotel and Resort.
Rush Limbaugh AP Image Rush Limbaugh Limbaugh, 58, suffered from chest pains, sources said. Limbaugh was sitting in a chair in his ninth-floor hotel room at the Kahala when emergency crews arrived, sources said. He told medical crews that he was taking medication for a back problem, sources said.
Paramedics treated him and took him to Queen's Medical Center in serious condition. He will not be released from the hospital on Wednesday night, sources said.
He was seen golfing at Waialae Country Club earlier this week. The country club is next to the Kahala Hotel and Resort.
The radio show host had been in the islands during the holidays. Coincidentally, his visit comes at a time when two of the nation's most powerful Democrats, President Barack Obama and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, are also staying in Hawaii.
In 2001, Limbaugh received a cochlear implant after he suddenly lost hearing due to autoimmune inner ear disease. Limbaugh underwent treatment in 2003 for an addiction to prescription painkillers, including Lorcet, Norco and hydrocodone.
But he is there right now. Not a good time to be incapacitated in Hawaii........
aunt esther likes ‘ripple’...and bambam is too squishy for a malt liqour, he seems more the pink bubbly type...
Thank you for the link, I was able to get a message through earlier without knowing the room number.
Wished him to get well and told him we were all praying for him.
Maybe I can sleep tonight...
No, you are not paranoid.
Just an ass.
Rush has been fighting a bad back all along, some days he has had to do the show standing up.
Or, “what can we do with THIS crisis? How nice of Rush to provide something for us here in Hawaii...” that Rahn sob...grrrr grumble...
On the other hand, now the 0bama crew will have to stage some kind of tragic upset,,0bama cannot be upstaged and certainly not by Rush.
Yep. Have we heard who the ambulance came for and their diagnosis/background at the Obama rental spread yet?
My bad... wasn’t it someone’s child who scraped their knee he rushed off the course for, while he’s still there after the terror attempt on 300 and two other attempts?
whatever you say buzzard breath
the pain killer thingy for back pain isn’t sounding like a good idea.
Still praying for him.
That's OK, FRiend... I'm on FR all the time when I'm waaay too tired. ;-)
It wasn't just you... other FReepers across several threads have been posting "good news", but I don't see what the news is. I WANT to hear good news about Rush... I'm a nervous wreck over this. Hope he's being treated by excellent doctors... I don't know anything about that hospital.
Praying hard for El Rushbo...
Not to get too specific, but the ‘one’ also has two voodoo queens there with him... just saying.
Queens Hospital is where Obama was born. (allegedly...)
Thank you both.
lol... wishing the same!
Do you have any proof/info that his hearing was damaged by painkillers? He said it was due to an autoimmune condition.
Me too! What is he doing in Obama territory anyway?
He’s secretly looking for Obummer’s Birth certificate.
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