Cheney home after heart returns to normal rhythm
Vice President Dick Cheney was treated "without complication" Wednesday for an abnormal heartbeat, his office said, making a short visit to a hospital to restore his normal rhythm with an electric shock.
It was the second time in less than a year that Cheney, a 67-year-old with a history of four heart attacks, had experienced and been treated for an atrial fibrillation, an abnormal rhythm involving the upper chambers of the heart. The episode caused the vice president to cancel his attendance at a political campaign event in Illinois.
Sensing a problem early Wednesday, Cheney saw the White House physician, who discovered the vice president was experiencing a recurrence of the irregular heartbeat. Cheney participated in regular morning briefings with President Bush, among other duties, and remained working at the White House until he went to George Washington University Hospital in the afternoon for treatment.
Cheney has had four heart attacks, starting when he was 37, and many heart-related doctor's and hospital visits over the years since. He has had quadruple bypass surgery and two artery-clearing angioplasties. In 2001, he had a special pacemaker implanted in his chest. The pacemaker's battery was replaced last year, and then the entire device was replaced.
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Personally I think Dick Cheney is possibly leader of a new cyborg rebellion.
Maybe God has been trying to take this dude out the last 4 or 5 times and we keep interfering...you never know.
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Maybe God has been trying to take this dude out the last 4 or 5 times and we keep interfering...you never know.
And what the hell is a SPECIAL pacemaker? I know people with pacemakers and they are all special.
Especially the cost, usually about $5000 for the surgery and $45,000 for the pacemaker here in Michigan...pretty damn special if you ask me or have no insurance yourself.
I am guessing Cheney's "steel heart of doom" pacemaker has security measures to keep it from getting hacked since they all can pretty much can be interrogated or reprogrammed remotely...a really smart 14 year old without a girlfriend or xbox to occupy his time could probably screw with it without such safe guards in place.
I am also guessing Cheney has government insurance?
So his SPECIAL pacemaker probably exceeded the run of the mill $45,000 model the little people get and we of course picked up the tab for the new exalted leader of the cyborg empire....may he live another thousand years...sheesh.
There are only a few big players in the pacemaker business so someone somewhere has the "secret codes" to Dick's heart locked in their office vault or just sitting out on the desk.....weird huh?
People are dying in this country in hospital waiting rooms because of paper work snafus caused by the money grubbing insurance industry and this guy has a doctor on call 24/7.
I am betting the doc makes a pretty damn good wage too.
Just sitting around, surfing porn, waiting around for these idiots to have a painful bowel movement, need the occasional mother's little helper or a just as a fourth on the golf course.
What other SPECIAL things do the executive branch of government get?
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