See? I told ya so! Cheney had a gout attack

[No Exit]

Bout with gout must be sore point for Cheney

BILL HALL
Published: January 14th, 2006 02:30 AM





Members of Vice President Dick Cheney’s palace guard were trying to protect him the other day from public knowledge of an ailment they obviously consider an embarrassment. But I disagree even though I sometimes suffer from the same ailment. And I don’t mean I experience a strange urge to torture people.
In my case and in that of the vice president, the torture is foot pain. And we are the victims.

Cheney was trying, unrealistically, to keep that from the public. But he couldn’t keep it from me because I had the personal experience to recognize even Cheney’s vague description of the affliction. And of course, it’s just a matter of time before news agencies talk to doctors who report what’s really going on. So the vice president’s staff finally acknowledged the ailment – as foolish press agents always must in this the land of the free and home of the nosy.

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This latest botched PR job began when Cheney was rushed to the heart plumbers with shortness of breath, apparently caused by fluid retention in his lungs. The vice president’s people said the fluid retention was a side effect of an anti-inflammatory drug that Cheney had been taking to treat a “pre-existing condition” in his foot.

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