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[Dems Will Win]

Update on Johnson's Condition

Word has it that he is speaking and is expected to be fine. More to come...

-- Alec Oveis

http://politicalinsider.com/2006/12/update_on_johnsons_condition.html

It's a TIA in all probability. Speculating he'll be fine if that is true.

[Nite Owl]

1. On CNN they just said

it was not a heart attack or a stroke. They don't know what it was.

[Dems Will Win]

4. It's most likely a TIA, some hardening of the arteries in the brain

Plaque in the brain. Stop eating trans fats, or lots of other fats and floss your teeth!

(Seriously)

If so, he should be fine, although more TIA could occur or even a major life-threatening stroke.

UNlike 47 million Americans though, the Senate made sure all Senators have good health care -- so he should be OK.

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Please excuse my ignorance,

but what is a TIA? Thank you.

[PCIntern]

3. Transient Ischemic Attack...n/t

[Dems Will Win]

6. They can't find it on a CT scan and they'll say

"We don't know, but you probably had a TIA."

[karlrschneider]

5. I hope that information is reliable. No citation, no timestamp.

And who is Alec Oveis?

[Dems Will Win]

10. Alec Oveis is a small-town journalist turned Dem blogger

on the Political Insider site, run by Taegen Goddard's Political Wire (real politics site of journalists and bloggers).

Also the site notes this:

Roll Call: "Although Johnson’s condition was unclear at press time, sources close to the two-term lawmaker said he was conscious." His office says he "was undergoing a battery of tests by the hospital’s stroke team."

[papau]

16. his staff refused to confirm speaking or awake or even not in a coma. n/t

n/t

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

7. TIA And Probability Probably Shouldn't Be In The Same Sentence.

TIA's probability has been all sorts of flawed as of late.

:rofl:

But on a serious note, thank God Sen. Johnson appears to be ok and that it seems at this time to not be nearly as serious as it may have seemed earlier.

[aquart]

8. We lit virtual candles.

And it worked.

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

9. Huh?

Not sure if you were serious or not.

[Dems Will Win]

11. I'm sure they're serious and it did work!

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

12. Ever Hear Of Beating The Tom Tom's?

[aquart]

15. Am too serious.

[Junkdrawer]

13. Obviously, the same can be said of OMC and "good taste"...n/t

[OPERATIONMINDCRIME]

14. .

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