Posted on 01/01/2010 2:23:57 PM PST by STARWISE
For those who missed it ....
Rush Limbaugh Press Conference in Hawaii
Thanks for posting....and I like the shorts.
You’re right. Chest pain can come from a variety of sources, not just heart attack. He was wise to get to the hospital immediately. Too many people think the pain is coming from anxiety, acid reflux, gall bladder problems, or something else. In a way, tis episode was a good thing in that it teaches us to never just assume that a little pain is nothing and to get medical care right away.
Glad to see he’s ok. I guess TMZ can take down their Get Well or not poll on its website now.
Welcome ..
LOL. Come on, I’ve bought similar in neon colors.
Surely he would be color co-ordinaated with his outfit!!!
Oh .. I have no idea what colors he wears .. probably chartreuse or salmon .. LOL.
I am partial to chartreuse and neon orange.
Thank you for posting this YouTube link. Rush sounded great and in good spirits, thank God!
Thanks, STARWISE! Great to see Rush so confidant and looking well. The lovely Kathryn is indeed lovely.
Get those old clown fools off Rush’s thread. LOL
Rush: U.S. health system 'just fine'
HONOLULU - Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh said Friday that he did not suffer a heart attack and that his physician did not know the reason for the symptoms that resulted in his hospitalization in Hawaii this week, despite a number of tests performed on him.
"I wish I knew what it was,” Limbaugh told reporters before he was released from Queen's Medical Center in Honolulu, which he was rushed to Wednesday after complaining of chest pains. "All people can do is make wild guesses about it."
Limbaugh shot down speculation that he is again taking painkillers amid news reports that he told paramedics when they arrived Wednesday at his hotel room that he was on medication for back pain.
Asked if he was taking painkillers, he flatly said "No," and added that he was taking Prednasone, a type of steroid used to treat inflammatory diseases.
Limbaugh, who has been vacationing in Hawaii at the same time as President Obama, used his five-minute statement to ding Obama's plan to overhaul the health care system.
"The treatment I received here was the best that the world has to offer,” Limbaugh said. “Based on what happened here to me, I don't think there's one thing wrong with the American health care system. It is working just fine, just dandy."
He said he as a celebrity he received the same treatment as anyone who would have called 911 and been taken to the hospital in his condition.
"I got no special treatment," he said."The care, he added, was "confidence inspiring."
"I just feel very grateful and thankful be an American and have this happen to me," he said.
Dressed in a blue polo shirt, white shorts and black loafers, Limbaugh was energetic as he delivered his statement at a podium in a small room on the sixth floor of the hospital. He said around 2:30 p.m. Wednesday he started to feel chest pains and initially tried to walk it off around his hotel room. But when the symptoms did not dissipate, he called for emergency help and was taken to the hospital in serious condition.
With the physician who treated him, Dr. Joana Magno, by his side, Limbaugh made a plea for others who may have a similar experience not to wait around before calling 911.
"I'm 58, will be 59 in a couple of weeks - you start thinking about these kinds of things. Don't mess with it,” he said. “Any time you have heart pain or chest pain and you have no idea what it is and it's something you've never experienced before, turn it over to professionals right off the bat."
He thanked well wishers who have reached out to him over the past two days.
"It has been a humbling experience," he added, saying he was overwhelmed with well-wishers who reached him.
"It was a blessing that it happened as it did with no damage whatsoever," he said of his heart attack scare, "because it takes things like this in life maybe to prepare you for the [reality] that you are getting older, you're not as young as you were and not as invincible as you once thought you were."
On his way out of the room, Limbaugh told a reporter he plans to return to his radio show next Wednesday, not Monday as originally planned.
Limbaugh has been in Hawaii since December 23, staying at the posh Kahala Hotel and Resort. Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0110/31101.html#ixzz0bPNPToNh
the great majority are positive and the video poster is doing
a great job of axing all cretins.
He’ll be back behind his golden mike on WEDNESDAY NOT ON MONDAY. :(
There was just a post on a thread within the last week where some freeper was talking about going through this chest pain with “no cause”. It wasn’t until she went to her Chiropracter about something else and he found a rib out of place!
I’m always a little bit fearful when the doc says “Well, we don’t know what it was, but you seem to be fine now”.
Agreed. Glad he's well but that outfit reminds me of the old adage: "Don't drink and dress."
This is great news, and as stated before it always pays to wait and see what the problem was rather than speculate.
Wonderful to have the Dr. of Democracy back in action next Wednesday.(If I know Rush he will be back before then)
Oh ... well then, that’s great .. thanks
for letting me know. The rotten trash
that abounds on the web is just despicable.
we must be equally vociferous as they, if not more so .
That’s one reason I love Rush :^)
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