FLASH: Whittington heart attack totally unrelated to shooting

[Bluebear]

CORPUS CHRISTI - Doctors commenting on the Whittington case say it is virtually impossible that his minor wounds from being peppered with shotgun pellets could have caused any heart trauma. "Whittington only this morning was doing the hokey pokey with the nursing staff, telling jokes and carrying on. We believe that his heart attack is probably his own doing from undertaking too strenuous of an activity schedule for a man his age, along with residual damage done by years of cigarette smoking and cocaine use." . . . .

:sarcasm:

[bluedog]

1. I knew it........knew that this is how it will go down

[DiverDave]

2. Nope, couldnt be that it was

because HE WAS SHOT IT THE FACE!


Jeez, the lies

[Beetwasher]

3. Bank On It, If He Dies, It Will Be From a Pre-Existing Heart Condition

Completely unrelated to the shooting.

[MnFats]

5. Exactly! "Oh, it was Harry's time......"

and the fact that Cheney shot him? oh, hell, just a coincidence!

but you know, I wonder what catching a shotgun blast, partially at least in the face, does to your heart rate and blood pressure. Ditto a fast trip to a hospital in an ambulance.....but I'm SURE it would have nothing to do with the heart attack...

[edbermac]

4. I heard that it was because Hillary was giving him oral...

But how could that be? I thought she was a lesbian... :sarcasm:

[Double T]

6. Com'on Karl, you can do better than that............

give us something almost believable.

[SPKrazy]

7. Except That He Has "Pellets" In His Heart

but then, they were probably already there?

:shrug:

[Bluebear]

9. He was born with them in his heart.

His mother was accidentally shot while pregnant as she mistakenly crossed a hunting range in Kansas, you know.

[obreaslan]

12. The "pellets" are the only things keeping him alive!

According to Dr. Frist.

:sarcasm:

[Bluebear]

21. Frist diagnosed it first & the freepers will nominate him for the "Noble

Prize" in medicine.

[flyarm]

28. 2pellets in lyrnx 1 in liver and 1 heart..and he must have shot himself!

or a dirty rotten terrorist snuck into the hospital and did it..

just to make cheney look bad...now they have to close down the internet because thats how the terrorists found out cheney was hunting with the guy..and the dirty rotten terrorists..snuck up and hit the guy over cheneys shoulder..and its all because of the bloggers..

shhhhhhhhhh don't give out our secrets...the dirty rotten terrorists are listening in on our phones....

what ??

what did you say???

it was * listening in on our phones..??

never mind...

i will save the terrorist story for tommorrow...

hope you have a short memory..like most Americans...

if you see the terrorist story tommorrow..don't tell anyone i told you tonight...

fly the spy

[Initech]

8. I cant wait to see how the RNC spins this one...

Not only that, how the sheep will take their spin seriously.

:popcorn:

[Mz Pip]

10. To paraphrase another DUer

Barbara Bush weighs in:

"He was going to have a heart attack anyway so getting him to the hospital ahead of time worked out well for him."

Hell, Dick probably saved his live by shooting him. :sarcasm:

Mz Pip
:dem:

[kitkat65]

15. Some Freep post actually used this one. Go figure. n/t

[Mz Pip]

22. Why does this not surprise me?

The ability to deny any responsibility and spin this to their avantage is truly mind boggling. They live in an alternate reality.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[Richard D]

11. Doctor's statement

OUSTON (Reuters) - The Texas lawyer accidentally shot by U.S. Vice President
Dick Cheney during a weekend quail hunt suffered a minor heart attack on Tuesday when some of the birdshot still in his body lodged near his heart, a hospital spokesman said.

Harry Whittington, 78, was moved into intensive care and ordered to stay in the Corpus Christi, Texas, hospital for at least another seven days to monitor his condition, said Christus Spohn Memorial Hospital spokesman Peter Banko.

Dr. David Blanchard, the hospital's emergency room chief, said at a news conference doctors noted an irregular heartbeat during a morning examination of Whittington and it was determined he was having a minor heart attack.

He was moved into the hospital's intensive care unit and underwent cardiac catheterization for his quivering heart.

"We picked up an irregular heartbeat. At no time did he have any chest pain, the classic signs of a heart attack or anything like that," Blanchard said.

Doctors and officials had assured the press that Whittington suffered only minor wounds, but Blanchard said on Tuesday, "We knew he had some birdshot very near to the heart from the get-go."

At least one of those pellets had gotten close enough to the heart to cause "irritability," which led to Tuesday's heart attack, he said.

Blanchard said doctors would have to keep a close eye on the birdshot in case it continues to move.

Trauma surgeon Soumitra Eachempati at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Weil Cornell Medical Center said the moving pellet could require an operation.

"Since the pellet just moved into the heart area, it might be necessary to do open heart surgery," he said.


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[Bluebear]

13. Yes, but Dr. Blanchard is a known LIBERAL!

He has donated to several liberal causes and that was obviously a political news conference. :sarcasm:

[Straight Shooter]

23. Well, if they do open heart surgery the man is probably a goner.

Then of course the fweepers and the White House will blame the medical staff for incompetence. "Nothing to do with us, no, sir, it's those damn doctors and that high malpractice insurance they have to pay that kept them from concentrating properly. It wasn't Cheney's mistake that killed Whittington, it was the operating team's."

Jeez. Can you imagine the strain of being Whittington's attending physician?

[Bluebear]

24. It's Hilary's fault for suggesting national health care in 1992. nt

[Cleita]

14. Yet AAR keeps saying the heart attack was caused by one

of the pellets that hit close by his heart.

:shrug:

So what's the truth?

[MadisonProgressive]

16. OH MY GOD!!

The doctors are bought off. They guy MUST be dead!

[Bluebear]

18. :SARCASM:

Whoa :) Just predicting here :hug:

[renate]

17. you TOTALLY had me going there

I saw the part about Whittington doing the hokey pokey with the nursing staff and rolled my eyes--great, more of that crap like how he was joking with everybody on Saturday. The hokey pokey is equally lame and stupid so I believed it was also from a real statement.

If you hadn't stuck that "years of cocaine use" in at the end, I'd have fallen for it. (Well, that and the dripping sarcasm thingy.)

:applause:

[Bluebear]

20. :)

Remember how they had Terri Schiavo talking and making her wishes known? "Ah waa" meant "I want to live"....

[Jackpine Radical]

19. Flash # 2: Falling from great heights won't hurt you.

It's the sudden stop that does it.

(Unless your heart is weakened by, for example, a shotgun pellet, in which case you may have heart failure during the fall.)

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[LisaL]

26. Never mind he has a gun pellet in the heart.

:eyes:

[WarningWillRobinson]

27. No, you're right...

The guy could easily have a heart attack because of the stress, because of a pellet, for some other reason, or because of a combination of them.

I wish him a speedy recovery however, I've worked with the elderly all my life and an incident like this is going to be very difficult to come back from.O8)

[thebigidea]

29. or the whole Dick-Cheney-shooting-him thing, huh?

Maybe it was a spot of bad mustard or an undercooked potato... those wacky senior citizens, can't take em anywhere without a minor heart attack.

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[thebigidea]

32. Sure thing, Doctor Frist

Like I care about some anonymous internet poster's claims about working with the elderly. Go diagnose someone else from your computer chair.

[Matariki]

30. this isn't a real quote (?)

i heard his doctor on NPR saying quite the opposite - how healthy his heart is for a 78 year old man.

oh, sorry - that's what the sarcasm tag is for. my mistake.