MSNBC: Tests revealed Cheney had a mild heart attack

[eleny]

Tamron Hall reported that she was just handed the news.

[FSogol]

1. Don't you have to have a heart before you have a heart attack?

I think he goes to the hospital every 3 months to have his blood stirred.

[saigon68]

10. He had a flashback of being DRAFTED to go to Nam

And he pulled out the 4-F card

[Thothmes]

50. You mean the one issued to him by LBJ.

[saigon68]

53. No the one his rich local RePuke Draft Board issued him

[Thothmes]

54. You have some substantiative evidence that the draft

board was rich local repukes. Or are you just orally flatualting.

[saigon68]

55. I'm not going to engage in anything but the ignore button

with you and your fermenting dog breath

[LiberalLoner]

2. Looks like he will be released soon. No big deal I guess.

I'm guessing that means his doctors predict a full recovery and no further testing or procedures needed?

[eleny]

4. She didn't say

[hlthe2b]

3. Don't bit a hole through your lips, fellow DUers...

;)

Enough said....

[DJ13]

5. The Eveready Bunny skipped a beat?

[Donnachaidh]

16. the eveready bunny was busy being waterboarded. n/t

[Jennicut]

6. Eventually, that heart is going to be so diseased that it dies.

But the spirit of evil will haunt us forever. The ghost of Cheney...anyone want to take bets where he will pop up and who he will bother? Maybe Bush at Crawford.

[Canuckistanian]

7. Hasn't he regularly been having heart attacks since the 80's?

What's the limit on heart attacks?

[hlthe2b]

19. This would be his 5th heart attack (MI)

1978 MI#1, 1984 MI#2, 1988 MI#3 (bypass), 2000 MI#4 (stent), (angioplasty for unstable angina in 2001) MI#5 2010

I was just reviewing what is available about his long cardiac history...

[City Lights]

24. Thanks for looking into that. I was wondering how many he'd had.

He's got more lives than my four cats put together.

[TheCowsCameHome]

27. One for each deferment. What a coincidence.

[hlthe2b]

29. yes... and there may be more poetic "justice" to come

There is quite a high probability his ultimate demise will come from congestive heart failure--with a lung so filled with fluid, it will be the equivalent of drowning--not at all unlike being waterboarded. I don't wish that on anyone and he might escape with a massive blockage (MI) or stroke, but the odds suggest he may well feel that particular pain in the end that he inflicted on others.

[eleny]

20. I read that he's had four before this one

I guess the limits are determined by the individual heart. I thought that a heart attack usually damages a part of a heart. But I don't know if the damage is always extensive and permanent.

[petersjo02]

28. True

Each heart attack results in the loss of some heart muscle to the point there isn't enough left to push the blood out and about. HOWEVER, an OTC supplement called CoEnzyme Q10 helps the heart muscle regenerate itself. After two MIs, 1993 and 1995, I started on CoQ10--in addition to doctor-prescribed meds. Cardiac function went from 48% post-MIs to about 75% now. The figure of 75% is recognized as that of a normal heart. (PLEASE do not mention this fact to Dick Cheney or any of his health-care team.) While there is research and literature that support the use of CoQ10, 200 mg daily, the practice hasn't yet become standard for cardiac care in the U.S. Just slow to deconstruct the myth that damaged cardiac muscle can never be repaired.

[eleny]

44. Congratulations on your terrific improvement!

[Maine-ah]

56. we gave COQ10 to our dog

there were a couple of dogs from her litter that had heart problems. Our dog lived until she was 13 (choco lab) she was the last in her litter to go.

Another thing about COQ10, is that some cosmetics are starting to use it. It's great stuff. I just cut open the pills and put it directly on my skin. Does wonders!

[ChairmanAgnostic]

8. heh. the only thing mild about him is the attack.

[Maru Kitteh]

9. My dad always said anything worth doing is worth doing right.

Cmon Cheney, you slacker.

[backscatter712]

11. He has a heart? n/t

[DebbieCDC]

12. I just wonder how many secret heart transplants he's had

Or attacks we know nothing about.

My ex-mother-in-law lives on the main residential street that runs from the VP's residence to Bethesda Naval Hospital. She's elderly and is often awake late a night watching TV. She would tell me time and again how she'd see these convoys of black SUVs shooting up Reno Road in the middle of the night from Observatory Circle heading towards Bethesda.

Makes ya wonder doesn't it?

on edit: sp.

[tridim]

13. Stem cell therapy would help.

Too bad The Dick doesn't believe in stem cell therapy.

[tinrobot]

49. He might also benefit from hydrotherapy....

[superduperfarleft]

14. That really sucks....

.....that it was only mild.

[Turbineguy]

15. He needs to go to a Texas chili cook-off

that will help him get over the mild heart-attack and give him a good strong one.

[eleny]

37. Yeah, maybe drive himself there in a Toyota

[Lil Missy]

17. He should check with the "death panels" to see if he's worth saving anymore.

[NC_Nurse]

18. Good thing he has great health coverage or he'd have been dead AGES ago.

[Ganja Ninja]

21. Karma has to wait for another day. n/t

[Rambis]

22. Quick somebody microwave some popcorn

I am using a blue tooth headset, listening to the MP3 player and searching for loose change in the furniture with my metal detector. Just for laughs I turned on the home MRI and the arc welder while wearing a large magnetic belt:party:

[eleny]

35. LOL!

[Lochloosa]

23. .

[City Lights]

25. Time to send him some "get well" salami!

:evilgrin:

[eleny]

36. And some deep fried butter for an antipasto

[yellowcanine]

39. Funnel cakes with lots of gooey toppings!

[TheCowsCameHome]

26. This ties his personal record for deferments. Way to go, Dick.

He needs a tie-breaker ASAP.

[opihimoimoi]

30. ReHab ReJect...even Rehab Centers reject his presence...too much distraction to others who voted NO!

[Amaya]

31. he can't die!

[tallahasseedem]

32. Meh.

What kind of health insurance does he have? Are we paying for his care?

[cutlassmama]

33. you betcha. The finest the world has...government run healthcare.

[old mark]

34. Really is no such thing as a "mild" heart attack....just a very fortunate

patient. IIRC, first heart attacks are fatal over 60% of the time.

I had at least 2 myself.

mark

[yellowcanine]

38. How many mild heart attacks can a person have before their heart tissue is basically the consistency

of a wet paper towel?

[eleny]

43. Good question. I heard that they do get pretty mushy

[pleah]

40. Ah, shit, he didn't kick the bucket?

Damn!

[lpbk2713]

41. Cheneyburton can sniffle and he's surrounded by specialists immediately.

How many other Americans can have a serious heart attack and
can't even get an appointment to see a General Practicioner?

[rcrush]

42. I thought 9 would be the magic number.

[GaYellowDawg]

45. Hm. Might I suggest fettucini alfredo?

Maybe with creme brulee for dessert.

[Cleita]

46. I remember reading something years ago written by a doctor who had

access to his medical records. The doctor stated that there was no way he should be alive with the heart problems he has. All I can say is that he must be getting some really state of the art medical care that is keeping him alive, maybe oxygen masks at night, a special cocktail of drugs, and it seems when he's not in public he is pushed around in a wheel chair.

[tinrobot]

47. That must cost a LOT of money...

...and all of it paid by government sponsored health care.

Sad that he gets this high degree of care, then turns around and argues against it for everyone else.

[Turbineguy]

48. A lifetime of sponging off others.

he's a parasite.

[eleny]

51. It's so noticable when he's speaking that he has to suck in air for a breath

I have no doubt that he's on oxygen as soon as he's off camera.

His health secrets are better kept than JFK's personal life.

[Stinky The Clown]

52. In that case, I am only mildly amused.