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2007-01-17 Caribbean-Latin America
Castro surgery seems to have been botched: experts
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Posted by Steve White 2007-01-17 00:00|| || Front Page|| [4 views since 2007-05-07]  Top

#1 Sounds like a shitty deal.
Posted by Mike N. 2007-01-17 00:26||   2007-01-17 00:26|| Front Page Top

#2 I wish him ill.
Posted by Verlaine 2007-01-17 00:39||   2007-01-17 00:39|| Front Page Top

#3 "It sounds like they tried to spare him the colostomy, which would have been the safer and more conservative approach...

He said the use of a prosthesis in such cases was "experimental" at best and unheard of in the United States.


I'm guessing Fidel had "issues" with the idea of the colostomy, and insisted the doctors try something else.

I'll be the first to mix up a pitcher of mojitos...

No, no! Cuba libres!

Posted by Angie Schultz 2007-01-17 00:40||   2007-01-17 00:40|| Front Page Top

#4 Heh. Botch him up some more please :-)
Posted by Jiling Glinetle9021 2007-01-17 00:42||   2007-01-17 00:42|| Front Page Top

#5 On top of that, i.v. feeding ('total parental nutrition') is frought with issues.

Vein burning?
Posted by Shipman 2007-01-17 00:51||   2007-01-17 00:51|| Front Page Top

#6 In Total Parenteral Nutrition, infected IV catheters, unbalanced fluid & electrolytes, unbalanced nutrition, leaving a key nutrient out, can kill in so many different ways.
Posted by Anguper Hupomosing9418 2007-01-17 00:59||   2007-01-17 00:59|| Front Page Top

#7 Che is waiting in hell for him, I hope they meet up soon.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2007-01-17 01:31|| www.sockpuppetofdoom.com]">[www.sockpuppetofdoom.com]  2007-01-17 01:31|| Front Page Top

#8 [crystal ball, looking inside Castro]

'0 bejeebus saints preserveus....there be sh*tty pus and pusy sh*t divert'culating everywhere.. 0 my gawd there's sum Castro Gastro and Extra Thrombi too.....

[/crystal ball looking inside Castro]
Posted by RD 2007-01-17 01:31||   2007-01-17 01:31|| Front Page Top

#9 Gives a whole new meaning to praying for sepsis doesn't it.
Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2007-01-17 04:41|| www.sockpuppetofdoom.com]">[www.sockpuppetofdoom.com]  2007-01-17 04:41|| Front Page Top

#10 Sepsis for the win!!!
Posted by gromky 2007-01-17 05:10||   2007-01-17 05:10|| Front Page Top

#11 Mojitos, cuba libres, and daiquiris.....gonna be a hell of a party when The Bearded One dies!

I'm just wondering if some of what he's enjoying suffering isn't deliberate, though. There seem to be too many screw ups. One of the docs getting revenge for a family member, perhaps?
Posted by Swamp Blondie 2007-01-17 05:45|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[ http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]  2007-01-17 05:45|| Front Page Top

#12 It's good for him, builds character.
Posted by bigjim-ky 2007-01-17 06:31||   2007-01-17 06:31|| Front Page Top

#13 Faster please.
Posted by Mike 2007-01-17 06:49||   2007-01-17 06:49|| Front Page Top

#14 Speaking of the Ded

Breaking: NEW VIDEO OF SADDAM

ยป:-)
Posted by RD 2007-01-17 07:16||   2007-01-17 07:16|| Front Page Top

#15 Photobucket - Video and Image Hosting
Posted by Anonymoose 2007-01-17 10:51||   2007-01-17 10:51|| Front Page Top

#16 Lol, and here we have more news of "cubans being worried about the well-being of el commandate", or the "secrecy about the health of the great men of the world". He's toast, he has been since the first incident, he's only taking his time to rot away from gut cancer. Goodbye, fidel, you'll leave many an hollyweird lefty orphelin when you go... thanks karl marx God the Forces of Progress everywhere have hugo to replace you.
Posted by anonymous5089 2007-01-17 11:00||   2007-01-17 11:00|| Front Page Top

#17 Good call, Angie!
Posted by Swamp Blondie 2007-01-17 11:05|| http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]">[ http://azjetsetchick.blogspot.com]  2007-01-17 11:05|| Front Page Top

#18 Remember this the next time one of your lefty friends brings up that great Cuban Health Care System they're so proud of...
Posted by tu3031 2007-01-17 13:42||   2007-01-17 13:42|| Front Page Top

#19 Socalized medicine...

My wife is from Russia, and there is a horror story of her teeth, and my long-time dentist who did the repairs...

But hey, it is the "People's Medicine", And amazing that folks want Hillary so bad...
Posted by BigEd 2007-01-17 14:54||   2007-01-17 14:54|| Front Page Top

#20 U.S. medical experts were also puzzled by El Pais' report that Castro had undergone a third operation to implant a Korean-made prosthesis, possibly an artificial stretch of bowel, after a second failed operation to clean and drain an infected area and perform a colostomy.

Some of the lesser known exports. I guess there is more coming from Korea than Hyundais, and Computer screens...
Posted by BigEd 2007-01-17 14:59||   2007-01-17 14:59|| Front Page Top

#21 Patent on the Prosthetic Bowel
Posted by BigEd 2007-01-17 15:02||   2007-01-17 15:02|| Front Page Top

#22 BigEd: ...The flexible inner member is located within the outer member and the expandable member or members are located between the inner member and the outer support structure. The expandable members are expanded and contracted, or inflated and deflated to provide a pumping action that pumps the material through the organ. The prosthesis may also include valves or sphincters at the entrance and/or exit points of the organ where material moves into and out of the prosthesis. An implantable pump unit may be included for inflating and deflating the expandable members according to a desired sequence.....

B'waaaaaaaa lol! ;-)
Posted by RD 2007-01-17 15:08||   2007-01-17 15:08|| Front Page Top

#23 RD: you owe my boss a new keyboard. Please post a Coffee Alert next time.
Thank you.
Posted by USN, Ret. 2007-01-17 15:26||   2007-01-17 15:26|| Front Page Top

#24 All that money wasted on artificial hearts, turns out the artificial ass is where the action is going to be.
Posted by Shipman 2007-01-17 17:49||   2007-01-17 17:49|| Front Page Top

#25 sounds like a sex aid for our San Francisco constituency
Posted by Frank G">Frank G  2007-01-17 19:00||   2007-01-17 19:00|| Front Page Top

#26 You know how the left keeps touting Cuba's superiority to the U.S. because even though they have concentration camps, they have, like, a better health care system, m-a-a-a-a-a-a-n?

Heard much from those folks on this subject lately?

Right.
Posted by no mo uro 2007-01-17 20:10||   2007-01-17 20:10|| Front Page Top

#27  sounds like a sex aid for our San Francisco constituency

heh thats it Frank, el quebracho Castro needed an ASS ectomy all along!

:-)
Posted by RD 2007-01-17 22:42||   2007-01-17 22:42|| Front Page Top

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