Man shot and wounded by Vice President Cheney suffers "minor heart attack"

[ProSense]

Breaking at http://www.cnn.com/


AP story:

Hunter Shot by Cheney Has Heart Attack

2 minutes ago

CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas - The 78-year-old lawyer who was shot by Vice President Dick Cheney in a hunting accident has some birdshot lodged in his heart and he had a "minor heart attack," a hospital official said Tuesday.


Peter Banko, the hospital administrator at Christus Spohn Hospital Corpus Christi-Memorial, said Harry Whittington had the heart attack early Tuesday while being evaluated.

He said there was an irregularity in the heartbeat caused by a birdshot pellet, and doctors performed a cardiac catheterization. Whittington expressed a desire to leave the hospital, but Banko said he would probably stay for another week.

Whittington, a prominent Republican attorney from Austin, was accidentally sprayed with shotgun pellets when Cheney was aiming for a quail Saturday.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060214/ap_on_re_us/cheney_whittington_4

[mdmc]

1. this story just won't go away

http://www.acme.com/heartmaker/heartmaker.cgi?text1=DU.&text2=com&color=Yellow&r=625952059

[watrwefitinfor]

2. Perhaps one or more pellets entered his bloodstream.

That seems a possibility, given the blast to his neck.
Could one have lodged in a critical place, maybe heart?

Wat

On Edit: OMG, I knew it. I posted this before OP put up the snip saying there were pellets lodged in the man's heart.

[sharp_stick]

6. I suppose it's possible

The chances of a piece of birdshot moving down a vein and making it all the way to the heart seem pretty slim. I think the old man was a lot closer to "crashcart" then they admit and he hammered him with a full load of shot, at least one of which entered his chest cavity.

I still don't think we're getting the whole story.

[SharonAnn]

3. Hmmm, thus the initial stay in the ICU. I knew there was more to it.

They don't put someone in the ICU unless there's a serious problem.

[mom cat]

4. I wonder if the "minor heart attack" was anything like the "supreficial

wounds"!

[BOSSHOG]

5. Can a heart attack be minor for a 78 year old?

[kerrygoddess]

7. So much for the meme...

So much for the meme that Harry Whittington suffered minor injuries when accidentally shot by Dick Cheney on Saturday. Much speculation has been raised as to why Whittington was in intensive care, it appears that the answer could be the fact that some birdshot was lodged in his heart.

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