Chris Matthews Recovering from Pneumonia

[DeepModem Mom]

Source: TV Newser

MSNBC's Chris Matthews has been off Hardball this week as he recovers from a bout of pneumonia. Matthews was feeling sick last weekend but went to work Monday. He later went to the doctor and was diagnosed with pneumonia. David Shuster has been filling in this week and a special edition of Hardball tomorrow night will be anchored by Andrea Mitchell. We're told he's following doctor's orders and resting up so he'll be ready for the conventions.

Read more: http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/msnbc/chris_matthews_recovering_from_pneumonia_91678.asp

[babylonsister]

1. Umm. Scary. Every time my dad gets on a plane he gets sick.

Really sick, with bronchitis that he thought would kill him. He's going on one in October, first time in two years. :scared: Do you live or don't ya?
I hope Tweety is healing.

[Infomaniac]

17. Off Topic for your Dad

I had pneumonia and bronchitis a dozen times from 1999 to 2004. I got the pneumonia vaccine in the Fall of 2005 and I haven't had so much as a cold since. I get a flu shot too. It has really helped. Ask your dad to speak with his doctor about the shot.

[Eurobabe]

25. Seriously I am thinking of getting TB masks for transatlantic

flights. The past two times I flown, I've gotten sick too, and it has ruined my visits home. :mad: :grr: :mad:

[spinbaby]

31. It's the domestic flights that get me

At least with a long flight you get a plane that's been cleaned. On domestic flights, you're lucky if they threw out the last passenger's newspaper, let alone wiped off his germs. Florida flights are the worst--my theory is that it's because of all those germ-laden kids heading to Disney World.

[Eurobabe]

35. LOL, probably

although I have to admit most of the illnesses I've contracted on long-haul flights are from BOZO adults who are SICK as DOGS yet fly anyhow. Some jerk on our flight to Dubai, right in front of me told the flight attendant he HAD THE FLU!!! I turned all the air jets on his head to block the germs but it didn't work. 5 days later my hubby and I both caught his bug.

Dick. :mad:

[Diane R]

2. David Shuster did a fabulous job replacing Mathews yesterday. He should get a permanent gig.

[DesertRat]

3. Get well Tweety. n/t

[Submariner]

4. Take 2 aspirin ya wimp

Shake it off and go to work Tweety like the rest of us uninsured folk. Taking off sick doesn't look good to the boss.

[dkf]

5. Shuster is great but I miss Tweets!

My day isn't the same without him.

[Pirate Smile]

6. Since he was diagnosis with diabetes, it seems like he gets sick more frequently - or maybe

I just notice it more. I hope he will be ok.

[Epiphany4z]

21. yep

I was diagnosed with diabetes 5yrs ago...and nearly every bug I get wants to head strait for my lungs. It also takes me like 3x as long to get over an illness than the rest of my family

[JDPriestly]

7. Get well, Tweety. Take care of yourself.

[lamp_shade]

8. Miss you, Chris

[Quantess]

9. Get well soon!

I kinda like Chris Matthews. He's an engaging host.

[DarthDem]

10. Get Well Soon. n/t

[Drunken Irishman]

11. Get well, get well soon, we wish you to get well!

[orleans]

12. must be nice to be able to take off work when you have pneumonia

i had it three or four years in a row and had to work through it each time (as well as pay cash for the doctor visits, hospital x-rays--one to diagnosis and one to make sure it was gone--and the drugs which ran around $100)

[miles 2 go]

14. I've had it for two years and have been in intensive care 3 times

They did not think I would live. I guess there are different degrees of pneumonia.

[orleans]

19. wow--there must be different degrees. while i would have liked

time off to rest i never thought i needed to be in the hospital. i remember having to take pain killers because it hurt to breathe. but i didn't feel i should be hospitalized.

[Hekate]

23. Yes indeed there are. Some forms will kill you fast. In Tweety's case, he has diabetes already...

... a chronic and incurable disease that makes him more vulnerable to other things, and makes it harder to get well.

There's also something called "walking pneumonia" (or used to be called that) where the patient is pretty sick but manages to keep on dragging himself/herself around for weeks coughing on other people and generally looking like death warmed over.

I'm glad you got treatment and are okay now.

Hekate

[Truth4Justice]

29. You can be healthy as a horse and it can kill even young people like my niece.

[Truth4Justice]

27. Cant get insurance so I stock up on Cipro and Amoxicillin. If the Cipro wont cut it I switch to Amox

-icillin. All that medic training was good for something anyhow.

[BunkerHill24]

13. what is this about 50 yr old men with pneumonia lately?

...are doctors proscribing pneumonia as the cause of death, or there something the health care system aren't telling us?

[karynnj]

16. Pnemonia is far more likely and far more serious for people with diabetes

which Matthews as. The rate of type 2 diabetes in the population is increasing - so it stands to reason that pneumonia is increasing. This incidentally is something the health care system has told us - that and that obesity is correlated to diabetes.

This is a serious issue that is best dealt with seriously, rather than go in conspiracy mode.

PS here is the definition of proscribing - http://www.thefreedictionary.com/proscription. I wish you could proscribe illnesses! Even prescribe, which I think you meant, makes no sense. Doctors prescribe medicines not diseases.

[kstewart33]

15. Hope he is recovering well.

Yes, he can be a real tweety twirp, but I like him anyway. Best to you, Tweety!

[Honeycombe8]

18. Actually, he hasn't been on the show for most of August. I thought he was on vacation.

I hope he's doing better, tho.

[otohara]

20. See You In Denver Chris

one of my priorities is to go to Union Station and hang out w/ The MSNBC guys.

[juajen]

22. I just saw him on ABC.

The show "The Chris Matthews Show". I guess he could be selling a show, but it was current news, I think. I was pretty sleepy and I switched it on to watch Steph, not realizing I was a little late. Anyway it was really odd. He had Dan Rather and the red haired O'Donnell girl and I believe they were discussing the latest campaign news. Has he left NBC or is he just started a new venture? Anybody know?

[maddezmom]

32. check this link

http://www.thechrismatthewsshow.com/index.php#

[Hekate]

24. Tweety take care of yourself. You know we actually like you even if we give you a hard time. nt

[snowbear]

26. Get better Tweety... you have looked a little rough lately...

.
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[truthisfreedom]

28. Poisoned.

[rocktivity]

30. My mother's dentist had Chris' Saturday morning MSNBC show on

Had to remind myself that I wasn't home and therefore should not yell, "Oh, shut up, Chris!" every five minutes.

:headbang:
rocknation

[Algorem]

33. I didn't know that a peice of crap could catch pneumonia.

[Doctor_J]

34. I wish I could think of a joke involving windbags

but it's early