Odd..Laura Bush has Surgery on "Pinched Nerve" today and Bush is in Hawaii?

[KoKo]

NBC's Night Report says she got the "injury from hiking"....yet WE THE PEOPLE were told Laura didn't go to Australia with him because of "pinched nerve."

So...Laura has pinched nerve from Hiking thing the PEOPLE didn't even know about BEFORE Bush flies with Condi to Australia and today (SATURDAY) she has emergency Surgery for a "Pinched Nerve?"

Is there something that "smells" about this story? Most folks I know who have had "Pinched Nerves" are put on Muscle Relaxers and not "rushed into surgery." Seems VERY ODD!!!

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Associated Press
First Lady Has Surgery for Pinched Nerve
Associated Press 09.08.07, 4:33 PM ET

WASHINGTON -

First lady Laura Bush underwent surgery Saturday to relieve pain from pinched nerves in her neck. The White House said the procedure was successful.

The problem kept her from joining President Bush on a trip to Australia this week for the annual meeting of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation forum in Sydney.

Mrs. Bush underwent the 2 1/2-hour procedure at The George Washington University Hospital. The surgical team was led by Dr. Anthony Caputy, chairman of the Department of Neurosurgery and co-director of the Neurological Institute, in consultation with Dr. Richard Tubb, who is the president's doctor.

Mrs. Bush returned to the White House in the afternoon and was said to be resting comfortably.

While en route from Sydney to Hawaii, Bush telephoned his wife at the hospital and they spoke for two to three minutes, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said.

Mrs. Bush told the president the operation was a success.

"He said she sounded very well," Perino said. "He looks forward to getting back to help her in the recovery."

Bush is expected to return to Washington at about dawn Sunday.

Sally McDonough, Mrs. Bush's spokeswoman, said on Friday that doctors planned to use a minimally invasive procedure to remove pressure from the nerve by enlarging the passageway where the nerve sits near the spinal column.

The first lady had been in discomfort for some time.

Mrs. Bush injured a nerve in her neck and shoulder earlier this year while hiking and has been treated with physical therapy since. Her doctors advised her to not travel overseas, saying such long flights could aggravate the problem and cause complications.
When the physical therapy did not work, doctors suggested surgery


http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/09/08/ap4096138.html

[jobycom]

1. What they say has no relationship to reality

They could be lying, they could be telling the truth, they could be hiding something or just keeping in practice. Who knows? I don't even care anymore--they are despicable filth, and the less I think of any of them, the better my day is. Though I admit to feeling a touch of sympathy for Laura. Wife of a drunk whom another woman is publicly calling her husband? She's got battered-wife syndrome if I've ever seen it.

[mwb970]

37. Imagine the shame of being married to the Idiot-In-Chief.

I'm surprised that all she will admit suffering is a pain in the neck. The same one the rest of the country is suffering through.

[Benhurst]

2. Condi will have to have emergency surgery when she returns for a pinched

bottom.

[dipsydoodle]

4. Amongst

other bits. :rofl:

[Raven]

3. I have had that problem in my neck and let me tell you, the pain

is terrible. I am shocked that Laura Bush could have functioned as well as she apparently did. She has had almost a year of physical therapy and it has not improved. I am not surprised that they operated.

Muscle relaxers do not work on this because it is nerve pain (which frequently seems like muscle pain). I found that no meds worked. The physical therapy eventually did but for many surgery is necessary.

I had the bone spurs which were fine until I put in a suspended ceiling in my house...that shifted everything and pinched the nerves.

I found the pain to be terrible. Laura has probably had a bad time...not including having to endure the boy idiot husband.

Don't read too much into this thing.

[hedgehog]

5. I have to agree.

The APEC Conference was probably scheduled a year ago. Why should Laura have waited another day to eliminate this pain?

[KoKo]

10. Pain from "Pinched Nerve" couldn't wait another two days?

:eyes:

[KoKo]

8. Raven..."We" have not been told of Laura's Year of Pain where she's done EVERYTHING

to survive and it didn't work so she was "RusHed into Surgery" on a SATURDAY? she couldn't wait until her husband was back from his trip? :shrug:

[Raven]

35. I don't know about Laura but with me, the pain could get so

bad that it immobilized me. I'm sure her docs didn't want her to travel but why she didn't wait for hubby in chief to get home, who knows. You know, if she did it this coming week some people would say it was a diversion from the Patraeus-Bush report on Iraq. Maybe there is just no good time.

One other thing about this condition...docs try everything before they resort to surgery. I saw a surgeon at Brigham and Womans in Boston and he told me that in over 50% of these cases, the pain will go away and never return. I found that unbelievable given the condition I was in but that was what eventually happened. I did physical therapy for quite a while and then one day the pain was gone. It has never come back. Go figure!

[BrklynLiberal]

6. I cannot help but wonder if "pinched nerve" surgery includes a face-lift?

[Swamp Rat]

7. Beat me to it

:D

[BrklynLiberal]

11. heh heh ... Great minds.....

:hi:

[Pachamama]

32. Great minds think alike....

Hi Swamp'r! :hi:

How funny...my first thought when I read this story was that anybody married and having to endure life with the moron would have major pain in every part of their body from the stress and anxiety, but then I thought next "Oh, so that's how they will cover for her Face lift!" :eyes:

[ThomWV]

9. Isn't he still flyin' around the world with Condi?

I'm not sure but wouldn't it be an historical first for the President to be bangin' the Secretary of State?

[KoKo]

12. The FIRST LADY has Emergency Surgery and Bush Flies with Condi?

After saying she's his "Date" as an offhanded comment in Australia?

What Media reported that Laura had EMERGENCY SURGERY this Morning? Is she a doorknob? Not important enough for Major Media to report when all day they went on about the "little girl missing in Portugal" and "Osama Tape?" :shrug:

Why does our First Ladies EMERGENCY SURGERY rate LESS than this other stuff? And...where was George...just like "9/11" he was "In Flight!" :puke:

[angrycarpenter]

15. that would be the headline of the century

but the thought of either of them naked much less together is enough to make me gag.

[sce56]

13. no she had to get a new wiring harness for her CPU

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

14. I wish her well and healthy.

My neck had herniated disks at one time, it was a year of pain I'll never forget.
No fun at tall.

[indepat]

19. My lifetime pain of 10 on a scale of 10. Ruptured lower discs were only a 7 1/2 or 8

on that scale of 10.

[KoKo]

22. But...we never knew Laura was in such terrible paid...Why? :shrug:

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

25. Not sure where I'd put the level on a pain scale.

One night the pain was so bad I passed out from it in my kitchen while trying to get my pain pills, Woke up to my dog licking my face. It was worse pain than giving birth, but I did have some kind of med during that.
Maybe I pass out at the 7 scale? I don't know but people handle pain differently, who is to say.
I hope the Fist Lady feels better, God knows what all she has to put up with.

[KoKo]

27. Shouldn't this be National News? On all the Cables? First Lady Has Emergency Surgery? though?

What you and I might have suffered wouldn't make National News. My post is about WHY we never were told Laura lived under the excruciating pain you describe that became so bad it was "Life Threatening" and required "Emergency Surgery" while her husband was "dating" the Secretary of State in Australia and stopped to do a photo op in Hawaii today never mentioning his wife. :shrug:

[OnceUponTimeOnTheNet]

28. I don't watch most news, aside from CSPAN, I read it online here and elsewhere.

It doesn't bother me where Laura goes for treatment. I know she had pain for the past month or so, and not having the dip shit around during surgery is sure to be good for recovery.
Frankly, I do believe She and We know * is an Asshole.

[Virginian]

30. I decided it was time to operate when my hand went numb.

I started with a Chiropractor. He could crack my neck and the pain would go away for a while.
Then I saw an orthopedist.
Finally after many years of treatments I saw a neurosurgeon.

My neurosurgeon didn't enlarge the channels for the nerves, he took out my damaged disk and fused a wedge of donor bone between two vertebrae in my neck. Went in through the front of my neck. You can barely see the scar.

[tanyev]

16. December 2000. Bush played golf in Florida while Jenna had an emergency appendectomy.

KING: Missing from the picture was Laura Bush, back home in Austin because of a Christmas Day emergency appendectomy for 19-year- old daughter Jenna.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

KING: Now, the governor has told reporters he hoped his wife and daughter could join him here in Florida soon. But, he said, if Jenna needs a little bit more time back in Austin to recuperate, perhaps she could clean her room as well. And on a more serious note, the numbers explain the sense of urgency now in the Bush camp. He is now at the halfway point.

http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0012/26/ip.00.html

[KoKo]

23. Thanks for the post...Bush is never there when his Family or Nation is in NEED

...he's flying off somewhere. :eyes:

[Virginian]

29. I always thought that was an abortion.

What kind of caring father would go off fishing when his little girl is in surgery? I thought she probably told them she was pregs and her father told her she wasn't going to embarrass him like that. Then he arranged for her "appendectomy."

Now, I am not so sure.

Reports said this was outpatient, elective surgery.
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90777/6257859.html

I know that if I was going to go under general anesthesia, I would want to wake up knowing there was someone who cared enough to be there for me.
This was not emergency surgery. She could have had it done before he left or after he came home.

I just don't think this is a real family. She is just there for show.

He doesn't interact the way a normal husband and father would.

[DemBones DemBones]

33. Teenaged girls do have appendectomies.

If she'd had an abortion, I think it would have been done secretly, certainly not in a hospital.

I think it was an appendectomy. Her father was a jerk for not being there -- he went fishing -- but her mother was with her.

Laura Bush has had some work done on her face in the past and may be having some now, but she also may be having surgery for a pinched nerve, who knows?

[tanyev]

36. There are plenty of rumors that it was an abortion.

Seems odd that one would schedule an abortion on Christmas Day, though, and then follow it up with a press release claiming it was something else rather than just keep it completely secret. Whatever it was, his little "joke" that if Jenna needed more time at home to recuperate, she could also clean her room is particularly callous. Almost as funny as his pretending to search for WMDs in the Oval Office. He's quite a piece of work.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

39. The day after Shrub's sister's death, Mama and Papa Bush played golf. Like father and mother

like son.

[speedoo]

17. Unless Laura is really stupid....

I expect her to file for divorce as soon as she determines the money is right.

Someone posted somewhere their net worth is $20 million plus. Sure, Poppy is worth a lot more and shrub will inherit his share sooner or later. But is that worth waiting for, if you're Laura? Or would you happily take $10 million or more now, and get away from this idiot and his criminal family?

[TheCowsCameHome]

18. I do feel sorry for George. He's been living on Rice for a week.

while pickles is home wondering where her a-hole is.

[elfin]

20. It was Betty Ford's pinched nerve, which led to her

addiction to pain killers along with alchohol.

Wonder when Laura will check herself in.

This family is notoriously absent when one of them undergoes medical procedures -- Jenna's "appendectomy", Dumbya's colonoscopy, now this.

Pickle's injury apparently happened some time ago -- why now to remedy it?

Maybe the PT plus unlimited hydrocodone were just too pleasurable, in addition giving her an excuse to spend time away from her duties and Georgie.

[MiniMe]

43. It just doesn't make sense that they were calling this emergency surgery

That is the part that confuses me. Unless they are trying to use that as an excuse for why Dubya wasn't there. Now if she had surgery to get that asshole removed, I would understand it.

[Cleita]

21. Why can't I get surgery?

I've had a pinched nerve in my neck for twenty years and all they give me is physical therapy and a bottle of Advil. We really do have a two tiered health care system.

[KoKo]

24. They just give US Painkillers... I know... But EMERGENCY Surgery?

After someone has suffered the pain? EMERGENCY means LIFE THREATENING...not that "I just couldn't stand the pain, anymore." :shrug:

[Catshrink]

26. 2 Comments: You all are assuming too much and It's the * way

1) It seems you all are assuming that Laura needs Georgie with her when she has surgery. Why? Do you think he'd be a comfort to her? That self-serving, self-centered little twit? Nah, I didn't think so. She's probably better off with him gone.

2) When crises occur in the Bush family, they run and hide. Remember the story about the Bush daughter that died (Georgie's sister)? George Sr. let Babs take care of the dying child --- the next day they were out playing golf. Someone mentioned Jenna's "appendectomy" and that * was in Florida. Where was he last year when Laura had the carcinoma removed from her leg?

Nah. No one needs George. I wish he'd just go away permanently.

[DemBones DemBones]

34. Again, teenaged girls do have appendectomies.

The way people here want to believe Jenna had an abortion is strange, considering that most of you support unrestricted abortion.

If she'd had an abortion, I think it would have been done secretly and not in a hospital.

If Chelsea Clinton had had an appendectomy, I'm sure the freeps would have been saying she had an abortion. Shouldn't we be better than that?

[Virginian]

40. If her father had been concerned, I might have thought differently.

It was because of his, his total lack of concern for her that made me think she had done something to piss him off. The "clean her room" remark made me think he was very angry at her.

That was why I thought she had come home from school for Xmas break and announced that she was going to have a baby. To which he most likely would have replied, "Oh no you're not!" Then he would have called someone to make arrangements.

Jenna's surgery was Christmas night. Did he even spend Christmas day with his family?

It was in the book "Peyton Place" that the doctor removed a healthy appendix to cover up an abortion. It was not an original idea of mine.

[DemBones DemBones]

45. If she had surgery on Christmas, I really think it

was an emergency appendectomy.

"Peyton Place" was 1) fiction and 2) written when abortion was mostly illegal.

Back then, abortions were only performed legally to save the mother's life and a committee of doctors had to agree that it was a necessity.

As regards the case in "Peyton Place," if a doctor were doing an illegal abortion and did an unnecessary appendectomy to cover up, he would have put his patient at more risk for complications and the whole bit about doing an illegal abortion in a hospital would be risky for him since the nurses would know what went on.

I think the story from "Peyton Place" is a bit far-fetched even for those days and since abortion is legal today, why would any doctor do that now?

It bothers me when people assume that any young woman who is hospitalized must be having a baby or an abortion. It shows that our society has a rather low opinion of young women.

[onethatcares]

31. trust me,

no one feels her pain more so than my wife and I. Each day we cry untold numbers of tears thinking about how badly she hurts.:sarcasm:

[rucky]

38. Condi wanted to go on vacation with her husband...

without that nagging first lady hanging around.

[Lex]

41. She's in detox and he's doing Condi.

That's my guess.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

42. Why doesn't she get that ugly fat removed?

Oh I forgot....you don't get that in a hospital.

You get it at a courthouse.

It's called a divorce.

:evilgrin:

[EFerrari]

44. Would you want that so called man around you

if you needed anything? :shrug: