DickWatch UPDATE: Heart attack-free for FIVE days! Take THAT, health care "critics!" USA! USA! USA!

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Former VP Cheney released from hospital

The Associated Press

Saturday, Feb. 27, 2010 | 12:22 a.m.

Former Vice President Dick Cheney left a Washington hospital on Wednesday following a heart attack he suffered earlier in the week.

Spokesman Peter Long said Cheney was discharged from George Washington University Hospital and feeling good. "He will resume his normal schedule shortly," Long said of Cheney, who has remained an active player in Republican politics.

The 69-year-old Cheney was hospitalized Monday after experiencing chest pains.

Aides say the heart attack was mild. It was his fifth since age 37, and he has undergone several heart procedures since.

A heart attack occurs when blood flow to the heart muscle is blocked.

Surviving five heart attacks makes Cheney unusual, showing that he has good medical care as well as a particularly aggressive form of heart disease.

http://www.lasvegassun.com/news/2010/feb/27/former-vp-cheney-released-from-hospital/

[Cirque du So-What]

1. 'He will resume his normal schedule shortly'

Searching for a 'donor' in some third-world slum? A nice 21-year-old heart unsullied by years of abuse from fatty food & alcohol? I bet tissue matching is ongoing as we speak. Nosferatu is not easily killed.

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. That only means he is five days closer to the next one.

Look at the positive side once in a while.

[Initech]

3. Its been [5] days since Cheney last had a heart attack.