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  • Hardrock69
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    • Feb 2005
    • 21838

    Cheney leaves hospital after minor surgery

    Dickless Cheney has had four heart attacks, quadruple bypass surgery, two artery-clearing angioplasties and an operation to implant the defibrillator.

    I am not religious, but I do believe in a higher power.


    Let us pray:

    Dear Lord, please cause Dickhead Cheney's heart to explode. He has caused enough death and suffering amongst the human race.

    And please command thy servant Satan to stoke up the fires of Hell extra hot for his sorry ass when he gets there!!!

    Amen

    Now....on to the news....why in the fuck did they not replace his pacemaker battery with one of those Sony Laptop batteries they recalled recently for exploding?


    WASHINGTON (AP) -- Vice President Dick Cheney on Saturday had minor surgery to receive a new battery for an implanted device that monitors his heart rhythms, his spokeswoman said.
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    Vice President Dick Cheney waves as he leaves George Washington University Hospital on Saturday.

    "The device was successfully replaced without complication," Megan McGinn, the vice president's deputy press secretary.

    Cheney, who has a history of heart problems, arrived with his wife, Lynne, in the morning for the procedure at George Washington University Hospital, and walked out about four hours later. He smiled and waved at photographers as he left.

    Cheney returned to his home at the Naval Observatory and then resumed his normal schedule, McGinn said.

    Doctors replaced the generator and battery part of the heart defibrillator. That device monitors Cheney's heart and would deliver an electric shock to reset the heart to normal rhythm if the heart ever went out of rhythm.

    Doctors did not replace wires that are attached to the device and are threaded through Cheney's heart. That would have required a much more extensive operation.

    Cheney, 66, has had four heart attacks, quadruple bypass surgery, two artery-clearing angioplasties and an operation to implant the defibrillator.

    During Cheney's annual physical last month, doctors tested his implanted cardioverter-defibrillator and learned that the battery powering the device had reached a level where replacement is recommended.

    During that checkup, Cheney had a stress test and doctors also checked out the defibrillator, which was implanted in June 2001. The stress test showed no blockages in his heart. Doctors also said then that his defibrillator was functioning properly and that they had not had to treat any irregular beating of the vice president's heart.

    In 2005, Cheney had six hours of surgery on his legs to repair a kind of aneurysm, a ballooning weak spot in an artery that can burst if left untreated. In March, doctors discovered that he had a deep venous thrombosis in his left lower leg. After an ultrasound in late April, doctors said the clot was slowly getting smaller.

    Dr. John Kassotis, director of electrophysiology at State University of New York's Downstate Medical Center, said that during the battery-replacement procedure, doctors typically use a local anesthetic on the chest and shoulder area below the collar bone. They make an incision and remove the defibrillator's generator, detaching it from wires that are connected inside the patient's heart.

    "Then, they will reconnect a new battery," Kassotis said. "They will test that everything is working appropriately, then they will suture him closed. What we do is watch the patient for about an hour, make sure that they're doing fine, and send them home."
  • Steve Savicki
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    • Jan 2004
    • 3934

    #2
    Is God having his/her revenge, or is Dick under stress overload thinking of either his next scheme or way to wriggle out of something/the next Republican mess?
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    • FORD
      ROTH ARMY MODERATOR

      • Jan 2004
      • 58759

      #3
      I guess God took Saturday off again.
      Eat Us And Smile

      Cenk For America 2024!!

      Justice Democrats


      "If the American people had ever known the truth about what we (the BCE) have done to this nation, we would be chased down in the streets and lynched." - Poppy Bush, 1992

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      • Steve Savicki
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        • Jan 2004
        • 3934

        #4
        Even God needs a break... from herding Repubs to sheep. Or is that Jesus? Seems he's alert tonight.
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        • Little Texan
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          • Jan 2004
          • 4579

          #5
          See, that just proves god does not exist! If there was a god, Dickhead Cheney would have been struck down by a bolt of lightning a long time ago, already! I guess it's true what they say, "only the good die young." The EVIL folks like Bush and Cheney seem to live forever! Even through numerous heart problems and major heart surgeries, you can't kill the evil bastard!
          Last edited by Little Texan; 07-29-2007, 12:24 AM.

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          • Steve Savicki
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            • Jan 2004
            • 3934

            #6
            Originally posted by Little Texan If there was a god, Dickhead Cheney would have been struck down by a bolt of lightning a long time ago, already!
            Either that, or Beezlebub's protecting a faux presidente.
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            • Nitro Express
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              • Aug 2004
              • 32797

              #7
              The dude is Darth Vader. Modern medicine has kept him alive so he can make the rest of us miserable. I bet he sleeps in a chamber like Darth had on his ship.
              No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!

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              • Nitro Express
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                • Aug 2004
                • 32797

                #8
                Dick Chenney being a smart ass with a Pentegon representative.

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                No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!

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                • Angel
                  ROTH ARMY SUPREME
                  • Jan 2004
                  • 7481

                  #9
                  If you want to mess up his pacer (actually, it's not a pacemaker, it's a defribillator (sp?)).

                  All it takes is a very strong electro-magnetic field. Get him within 20 feet of an arc-welder...
                  "Ya know what they say about angels... An angel is a supernatural being or spirit, usually humanoid in form, found in various religions and mythologies. Plus Roth fan boards..."- ZahZoo April 2013

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                  • hideyoursheep
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                    • Jan 2007
                    • 6351

                    #10

                    Last edited by hideyoursheep; 07-31-2007, 02:19 PM.

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                    • hideyoursheep
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                      • Jan 2007
                      • 6351

                      #11
                      Originally posted by Nitro Express
                      Dick Chenney being a smart ass with a Pentegon representative.

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                      • Nitro Express
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                        • Aug 2004
                        • 32797

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Angel
                        If you want to mess up his pacer (actually, it's not a pacemaker, it's a defribillator (sp?)).

                        All it takes is a very strong electro-magnetic field. Get him within 20 feet of an arc-welder...
                        Hey Dick. This piece of angle iron keeps slipping out of place, could you come over here and give me a hand? (Turning arc welder all the way up)
                        No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!

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