Dick Cheney released from hospital

[alp227]

Source: Washington Post

Former vice president Dick Cheney was released from Inova Fairfax Hospital on Tuesday, 10 days after receiving a new heart from an unknown donor and making a “remarkable” recovery that his doctor said was much faster “than anyone could have hoped for.”

Cheney, 71, had a transplant operation March 24 after a 20-month waiting period during which he was kept alive with an implanted pump that helped his weakened heart keep beating.

“His recovery was remarkable and completely uneventful,” said Jonathan Reiner, Cheney’s longtime cardiologist at George Washington University Hospital.

“He has been walking, he has climbed stairs and he feels terrific,” he said. “I think his recovery after the surgery far exceeded the most optimistic projections. . . . It is far better than anyone could have hoped for.”

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/cheney-released-from-hospital-after-remarkable-recovery/2012/04/03/gIQAgYMgtS_story.html

[obey]

1. 10 days! Holey crap

I think Dr. Barnard's 1st transplant patient never even got out of the hospital. Only lived like a week or something and it was world wide news.

This is almost like going for a new knee or something.

[Myrina]

39. IF ONLY they'd have put a kneecap where Cheney's heart should have been ...

n/t

[Nostradammit]

2. Far better than I hoped for

No question about that.

[Ian David]

3. Hide your children... HE MUST FEED!!! n/t

[tclambert]

34. I hope they counted the babies in the nursery before letting him leave.

Hospital security guard: "Mr. Cheney, what do you have in that bag?"

Cheney: "Nothing! Just spare organs I might need later."

Security guard: "Is your bag crying?"

Cheney: "No! That's just me. Waaaugh. Waaaugh."

Security guard: "Mr. Cheney, put the bag down. We've told you before, it's against hospital policy to let you steal babies from the nursery."

Cheney: "Gimme that back. Gimme! Gimme! Somebody waterboard this guy! Waaaaaaaaugh!"

[Ian David]

35. LOL!!!!!! n/t

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

41. Holy shit!!

It's funny 'cause it's true.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

4. Bullshit

This fucker has no heart, they just had to remove some of the festering cancerous sludge that pours from his body every 100 years or so.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

5. "Remarkable!"

...so Cheney bought an extra handful of months. Whoop-dee-doo.

[merh]

7. did he buy it or did we taxpayers pay for it?

[Grassy Knoll]

10. LOL, he's holding a Black Heart....

Not as in race, but as in his sole.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

11. k

[wordpix]

6. he should go straight to criminal court but instead, he gets the best health care money can buy ---

on our taxpayer dime.

[Sarah Ibarruri]

27. I agree. nt

[rfranklin]

8. Geez, and I had rented the dance floor for his gravesite!

I'll have to call the caterer.

[polly7]

26. doing remarkably well ..

[IMG][/IMG]

[kayakjohnny]

9. Who exactly is the 'anyone' in "It is far better than anyone could have hoped for."

[Cleita]

12. Demons do have unusual strength and stamina. n/t

[Ecumenist]

31. LOL!!

[wordpix]

13. "The care he received is available to most Americans over the age of 65.” You mean MEDICARE?

So, Cheney, whose party wants to abolish Medicare, is getting HIS before the abolition, right? I wonder what it cost US.

[FailureToCommunicate]

20. "Typical" cost is $658,800. Cheney certainly had higher donor cost fees (!!)

"According to Transplant Living, the average total cost of a single heart transplant in 2007 was $658,800. This figure includes the cost of obtaining a donor heart, at an average of nearly $90,000, about $23,000 in evaluation fees, $40,000 for doctor's fees, $383,000 in hospital costs, $93,000 in post-operative care, and over $29,000 for immunosuppressive prescription medications. Transplants that involved both a heart and a lung cost an average of $874,800, while heart and kidney combination transplants cost an average of $758,700.



Read more: How Much Does a Heart Transplant Cost? | eHow.com http://www.ehow.com/about_4673173_much-does-heart-transplant-cost.html#ixzz1r1ySJ03u

[wordpix]

23. Darth Vader isn't worth a fraction of that, except to see him frogmarched to jail

[FailureToCommunicate]

25. Still waiting for that day...

[lastlib]

29. Klingons don't come cheap!! . . . .eom

[madokie]

14. I want that old creepy bastid to live a long time yet

The world court has a date with him, just not decided exactly when yet but you can bet that he will be tried if he lives long enough.

[obey]

17. I knew it! The old Truthout "Sealed vs Sealed" secret indictment ploy

from a few years back. Didn't Bushco put Truthout out of business over that one? I haven't seen them for some time.

But what are they waiting on now? He can't have long to live.

[madokie]

36. Have you ever read how the world court works?

If after a while if the country that the perpertrators like the dick and w and gang can't or won't handle war crimes then the court will do something. These things takes a while, in the mean time check out how this all works.

[Lint Head]

15. I hope the heart doesn't reject.

I wouldn't want to wish death to someone who is responsible for the deaths of thousands of innocent human beings.

[polly7]

24. Unless it's satan's heart I suspect it will reject him.

That said .......... I do hope he does well physically (I don't really want him to suffer from rejection after such an ordeal). Mentally, I hope he suffers every day of his life.

[shawn703]

16. "Faster than anyone could have hoped for"

Well duh! Even if we was in there until the day before he died it would still be faster than anyone could have hoped for!

[TheMightyFavog]

18. Lichdom. It's the only answer that makes sense....

We need a super high level cleric to turn this undead monster....

[cosmicone]

19. I hope they don't nominate him instead of Romney in the convention n/t

[surrealAmerican]

21. Great ...

... now he'll be able to serve a much longer prison sentence.

[wordpix]

22. dream on, this is Amerika you're talking about

[lastlib]

28. Has anyone determined the whereabouts of Lt. Worff?

Where else could they get a heart for pumping green blood?? Klingons aren't very plentiful in this century.....

[Rosa Luxemburg]

30. The creature awakes

[lunatica]

32. He keeps proving he's the undead

I wonder if he's ever had a moment during his pitched battle with death where he feels his meanness wasn't worth it. Most people have a reality moment when they realize that what they thought was important simply wasn't. I wonder if he's ever thought that his agenda is meaningless in the grand scheme of things. You know, one of those self assessment moments that most people go through when they're fighting for their lives.

Hey Dick, was your evil spirited, nasty, torture loving, genocidal penchant all you thought it could be? Did your life really turn out to be a life worth living? Is your legacy all you wanted it to be?

[Monk06]

33. Now that he's out of the hospital, time for some real food,

Chow down Dick. Let us know if you want seconds.

[VWolf]

37. In the words of Lewis Black:

The good die young ..... but assholes live FOREVER!

[Myrina]

38. Shouldn't be 'remarkable' - he's been eating hearts for years ...

... I'm sure this one felt 'right at home'.

[bottom line]

40. hilarious

The spin master of genocide.
The devil has it's heart & is raking it across the coals.
What's left of it's body is now animated.
"See Dick run"
"See Dick think it's has spun & fooled the new generations by hiding behind it's (gay in name only inc.) daughter's skirt"
"See Dick think he's gottem fooled"
"See Dick think everyone's buying it"
"See Dick think he's out foxed GOD"
Time, Time, Time. It must have more time, more TIME.
Hilarious

[lisa caufield]

42. Donor was a sage...

What if the donor was a magnificent person with a beautiful soul. Could there be a chance of a new spirit in Cheney? Thankful for life and willing to help the poor the needy? Give up his blood-shed riches for cancer children?

[BOHICA12]

43. Live long and be well and follow that famous quote from Saving Private Ryan

Earn It!

[HeiressofBickworth]

44. So he doesn't in fact

go STRAIGHT to hell. He gets to go home first. But I'm sure he'll get to hell eventually. I've got my dancing shoes ready for when it happens.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

45. I plan to donate whatever pieces and parts can be used when I expire...

I know the recipients are those at the top of the priority list; but golly, there are some folks I do not want to donate them to.

[stlsaxman]

46. Perfect- just in time for the GOP brokered convention...