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| Recovery Is Progressing for Clinton | |
| 2004-09-09 | |
| Former President Bill Clinton has been moved from an intensive care unit to a hospital room and his recovery from a quadruple bypass operation is progressing smoothly, his office said yesterday. Mr. Clinton sat up in bed, walked across the room with assistance and sat in a chair at the Columbia-Presbyterian Center of New York-Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan, the office said in a statement. Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton has "canceled everything on her schedule to Mr. Clinton's recovery, like that of any bypass surgical patient, will proceed in stages over the next several weeks. He passed the first stage when a breathing tube in his windpipe that was connected to a breathing machine was removed late Monday night. That allowed him to speak and breathe on his own.
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| Posted by:Steve White |
| #9 "Hard surgery even if the prognosis is good. " There is nothing "hard" about this surgery. In fact, the mortality rate is very low. Another fact, they have even perfected a technique that allows the surgery to be performed without stopping the heart. This eliminates the complications associated with the Heart/Lung machine, which by the way was the source of most complications. With that said, I'd like to be the first to offer Slick Willie I nice greasy plate of pork ribs...with EXTRA grease! CiT |
| Posted by: CiT 2004-09-10 12:01:12 AM |
| #8 or laying in bed munching "jeez it's always about sex with you people, isn't it?" - Lanny Davis |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-09-09 10:15:36 PM |
| #7 Has anyone else considered that this surgery might have been elective, or at least the timing? Bush opens up a double digit lead over Kerry. Bubba infiltrates his people into the Kerry campaign team. Then he gets a pain in the heart. Clinton could spend the next 60 days two ways, busting his hump for Kerry or laying in bed munching. Have to operate right away. Then they wait three days. And this way his loving and inseparable wife Hildebeast can spend every moment by his side while Kerry goes down to defeat. Suddenly, only one week after his cadre has assumed control of the Kerry Kampaign, third rate forgeries appear on 60 Minutes. But they've both got plausible deniability for any responsibility for the debacle because they were otherwise engaged during the critical weeks of the campaign. And the coast is clear for Hildebeasts stampede in '08. That feels better. Now I'll take my hat off. |
| Posted by: Mrs. Davis 2004-09-09 10:06:17 PM |
| #6 Would I be a bad person if I said I really don't give a rat's ass about Bubba and wish he would get is sorry ass out of the limelight for a while? No, I wouldn't be. These are serious times and we don't need to be swamped with info about lightweights. |
| Posted by: Barbara Skolaut 2004-09-09 3:02:11 PM |
| #5 Jack, I think it was a truly serious med problem that ocurred at a fortuitous time to disassociate from a Loser campaign effort, nothing more. Hope he gets well. The Republican party's biggest gains have come during his reign. |
| Posted by: Frank G 2004-09-09 9:55:40 AM |
| #4 I know I was relieved to find that, in the words of the hospital spokesman, he was still under sedation the other day, yet "still arousable." |
| Posted by: eLarson 2004-09-09 9:51:01 AM |
| #3 Am I alone here but does anyone else believe as I do that this is a put up job by the Clintons to abrogate any campaigning for Kerry? He loses, she wins! |
| Posted by: Jack is Back 2004-09-09 9:19:10 AM |
| #2 Well, glad to see Bill's going to make it. Hard surgery even if the prognosis is good. Bubb, us Papists will be praying for you. As for Hillary - it gives her just the excuse she needs to jump away from the Kerry Campaign, right as it looks desperate: all the really poorly done negative attacks from Skeletor and the Garden Gnome (Carvile and Begala)., and thier hired hands at CBS and Kitty Kelly's publisher. |
| Posted by: OldSpook 2004-09-09 1:32:11 AM |
| #1 And even after all the nonsense, Hillary gets to drop everything and go be the devoted wife and take care of her man. Gah. |
| Posted by: Seafarious 2004-09-09 1:23:37 AM |