Cheney's heart OK, doctors say

[RamboLiberal]

Source: CNN

Doctors reported Saturday that Vice President Dick Cheney's heartbeat was normal for a 67-year-old man with a history of heart problems.

"All is fine," Cheney press secretary Megan Mitchell said after Cheney's annual checkup, which took less than two hours at George Washington University Hospital.

Cheney has had four heart attacks, quadruple bypass surgery and two artery-clearing angioplasties.

In addition to the physical exam, he had an electrocardiogram, a test that detects and records the electrical activity of the heart, and imaging of the stents placed in the arteries behind his knees in 2005, Mitchell said.



Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/07/12/cheney.health.ap/index.html

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Surprised again they found it!

[skooooo]

1. wonderful news.

[CoffeeCat]

2. Great. Let's celebrate or something (nt)

[Webster Green]

3. No comment

[Wilms]

4. Excellent!

Then he's fit to stand trial!

[CreekDog]

5. could have fooled me

:eyes:

[thewiseguy]

6. "Heartbeat was normal for a 67-year-old man with a history of heart problems"

Sounds like he is not doing too good. :rofl:

[reclinerhead]

59. Exactly...

There should be a giant asterisk at the end of that official headline.

Yeah - He's doing ok for a patient with four heart attacks and a bypass. Nurse!

[oldtime dfl_er]

7. the jokes are just too easy

but it reminds me of the doctor's report on McCain: he's fit as a fiddle, except for the fact that he's on six different medications including Ambien, and he's had skin cancer four or five times....

[skooooo]

8. What's Ambien for?

I can't keep up these days with the new drugs..

[tishaLA]

9. the best sleeping pill ever

[Danieljay]

10. Sleep. n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

30. Ambien (Zolpidem)

prescription medication used for the short-term treatment of insomnia, as well as some brain disorders. It is a short-acting nonbenzodiazepine hypnotic.

Zolpidem is approved for the short-term (usually two to six weeks) treatment of insomnia.
Did you get that? Short-term. Not long term.

Side effects at any dose may include:

* Anterograde amnesia
* Hallucinations, through all physical senses, of varying intensity
* Delusions
* Altered thought patterns
* Ataxia or poor motor coordination, difficulty maintaining balance<30>
* Euphoria and/or dysphoria
* Increased appetite
* Decreased libido
* Amnesia
* Impaired judgment and reasoning
* Uninhibited extroversion in social or interpersonal settings
* Increased impulsivity
( poor gun aim also )

Even more and novel side affects when you mix with alcohol.

( Interestingly, The United States Air Force uses zolpidem as "no-go pills" to help pilots sleep after a mission.
The "go-pills" dextroamphetamine, served under the name Dexedrine,act as a stimulant for the same pilots, the effects of which are reversed by the aforementioned "no-go pills")
Meaning we give pilots uppers and downers. Just like Judy Garland..how re-assuring.)

Source: Wikipedia

[Wilms]

54. I think you found the WMD.

[Lasher]

56. I was once addicted to Ambien.

Stupid doctor didn't tell me it was addictive. Went cold turkey as soon as I realized what was going on. I heard voices and everything. I couldn't stand the thought of being addicted to anything.

Not saying it's wrong for everybody but it was wrong for me. Now when I can't sleep I get on the internet and post incoherent messages like this one.

[bluesmail]

11. Just Great. Just Oh So Great News.

[samplegirl]

12. Good to know that socialized medicine

keeps him healthy with lots of check-ups!

[dbonds]

13. Wait!!!!! he has a heart?

[Haole Girl]

44. I figured at least one person would beat me to it! lol nt

[yourout]

14. What.....you mean he actually has a heart?

Who would have guessed?

[blueDachi]

15. How?

How could they say it was OK when it was found to be two sizes too small???

[LongTomH]

41. Plus the fact that his head isn't screwed on right!

And his underwear is too tight!



You're a mean one, Mr. Grinch
You really are a heel,
You're as cuddly as a cactus,
You're as charming as an eel, Mr. Grinch,
You're a bad banana with a greasy black peel!

You're a monster, Mr. Grinch,
Your heart's an empty hole,
Your brain is full of spiders,
You have garlic in your soul, Mr. Grinch,
I wouldn't touch you with a thirty-nine & a half foot pole!

You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch,
You have termites in your smile,
You have all the tender sweetness
Of a seasick crocodile, Mr. Grinch,
Given a choice between the two of you I'd take the seasick crocodile!

You're a rotter, Mr. Grinch,
You're the king of sinful sots,
Your heart's a dead tomato
Splotched with moldy purple spots, Mr. Grinch,
You're a three decker sauerkraut and toadstool sandwich with arsenic sauce!

You nauseate me, Mr. Grinch,
With a nauseous super 'naus'!
You're a crooked dirty jockey
And you drive a crooked hoss, Mr. Grinch,
Your soul is an appalling dump heap overflowing with the most disgraceful assortment of rubbish imaginable mangled up in tangled up knots!

You're a foul one, Mr. Grinch,
You're a nasty wasty skunk,
Your heart is full of unwashed socks
Your soul is full of gunk, Mr. Grinch,
The three words that best describe you are as follows, and I quote 'Stink, stank, stunk'!



Photoshopper - have a field day!

[angrycarpenter]

49. put this together a while back

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3065230
You might like it.

[Demeter]

16. Given the Level of Truth that Is Standard in This Misadministration

this could be the beginning of the end for Darth. (whistles nonchalantly)

[az chela]

17. He has no heart,he is a ROBOT

[Patsy Stone]

18. That's a damned shame.

:(

[timzi]

19. I'd Have Bet His Heart Would Have Been Found To Be Black.....

NT

[Robeson]

20. Why is there never any good news anymore.

[daleo]

21. Bush's brain ok, say doctors

Doctors reported Saturday that President Bush's brainwaves were normal for an insane moron.

[superconnected]

52. hahahhahaha!

:rofl:

[Gman]

22. Even though he was very ill, Pinochet still went on trial

Cheney should have no problem attending his trials and serving his time.

[wtmusic]

23. He has a few more good hunting incidents in him.

"Where are your shotgun shells? I don't know, dear, I haven't seen them in awhile..."

[Cleita]

24. I surprised that they found it.

Also, does anyone really believe these glowing health reports? I'm sorry but I'm really cynical about this. I think there's much more going on in Cheney's deteriorating body than they are letting us know.

[happygoluckytoyou]

25. WHY THE BIG DICK'S HEART IS SO VALUABLE----->

new, unused and still in origonal packaging

used to make people with normal sized hearts feel even better about themselves

airlift to the north pole and slow global warming

.... please feel free to jump in any time.....

[cliffordu]

26. ....and then they put it back in the jar.....

[dixiegrrrrl]

32. The jar? the Abby Normal jar?

[nancyr]

27. Damn.

[roamer65]

28. Ditto...damn.

Disappointing.

[liberalmuse]

29. Fuck.

Proof there is no god.

[ismnotwasm]

31. Oh bullshit

"Cheney has had four heart attacks, quadruple bypass surgery and two artery-clearing angioplasties" That is not a heart that is "fine". Probably what we call big and boggy. Like the rest of him.

[cliffordu]

33. Will it be OK to dance on his grave when the time comes?

[Robeson]

38. With ruby colored shoes...

...

[yourout]

39. Would a 45+ year old man break dancing on his grave be inappropriate?

I would do it even if it meant a month of chiropractor visits.

[Crowman1979]

51. I'll one up you there.

Because I will piss on his damn grave! Him and Prescott!

[JeanGrey]

34. He is very fortunate to be alive.

[DeadManInc]

35. I didn't think the bastard had one.

[Rick Myers]

36. If he only had a brain!

:grr:

[Kahuna]

37. Curses! Drat! Double drat! nt

[Maestro]

40. I guess what the doctors really mean is that all

the electronics used to keep the ticker going is still working.

[AndyTiedye]

42. Surgery to Remove the Wooden Stake Was Successful

[Olney Blue]

43. Good thing he has insurance.

[Jacquot72]

45. Oh well, my prayers didn't work again!

[Historic NY]

46. Send him more bacon.

[Kali]

47. duh - they keep forever in the freezer on the porch.

or in a jar of formaldehyde

[Tutonic]

48. 67???? Hell if I looked like that at 67 I'd ask Harry Wittington to shoot

me.

[SharonRB]

50. Cheney has a heart?

Who knew?

:shrug:

[AllyCat]

53. Missing and embalmed, but OK n/t

[Wash. state Desk Jet]

55. Wonderful news

Now he can go hunting again! Perhaps he and his friends can do a little qual hunting. Maybe they can take a bus.

[boilinmad]

57. Since nothing this administration ever reports...

...is anywhere close to the truth, im still hopeful his heart is as bad as we think it is. Keep your fingers crossed.

[spanone]

58. cheney has a heart?

[Vinca]

60. So when did Cheney have the colonoscopy? nt

[DLnyc]

61. There may be a mild problem with the doctors's brains, though.

Like they're friggin idiots, for instance.

[JustAnotherGen]

62. Uh

:evilgrin:

He has one?

[DemoTex]

63. Nurses: Cheney 'would probably be dead' but for government healthcare (RawStory 12/2007)

Campaigning for politicians to address universal healthcare, a nurses' group purchased provocative newspaper ads that warn Vice President Dick Cheney would "probably be dead by now" if he was not part of a single-payer government run healthcare system that keeps his oft-adled heart ticking.

The California Nurses Association purchased the eye-catching ads in 10 Iowa newspapers Tuesday, pointing out what the group says is another irony of the heatlhcare crisis -- that politicians receive health coverage from a government-run program, not insurance companies.

"Dick Cheney, with his heart trouble, would probably be dead now if he were an ordinary American forced to search for cardiac care in a thicket of mercenary insurers and heartless HMOs," Shum Preston wrote on the Nurses' association blog. "Cheney gets guaranteed healthcare; we get squat."

“The patient’s history and prognosis were grim: four heart attacks, quadruple bypass surgery, angioplasty, an implanted defibrillator and now an emergency procedure to treat an irregular heartbeat,” the ad states, referencing Cheney’s lengthy medical chart, according to the Wall Street Journal. “For millions of Americans, this might be a death sentence. For the vice president, it was just another medical treatment. And it cost him very little.”

The vice president's office apparently was not amused with mentions of Cheney's mortality. (more ..)




http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Nurses_Cheney_would_probably_be_dead_1211.html

[Q3JR4]

64. Wait, what?

Cheney has a heart? Who knew? :shrug:

Q3JR4.

[Kablooie]

65. I'm so relieved. Now we can continue with the new Iran war! Wheee!