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Tiger Woods Admitted to Hospital as OD (overdose) (day after Thanksgiving)
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Posted on 12/08/2009 5:00:22 AM PST by cycle of discernment

Tiger Woods Admitted to Hospital as OD Posted Dec 8th 2009 1:00AM by TMZ Staff

Tiger Woods was admitted to Health Central Hospital the day after Thanksgiving as an overdose.

Sources connected with the hospital tell TMZ the admissions chart lists "OD" and that he was having trouble breathing.

We're told the fifth floor of the hospital was put on lockdown when Tiger arrived. Tiger was admitted under an alias -- William Smith. His wife, Elin Nordegren was by his side.

As we first reported, Elin gave paramedics two pill bottles at the accident scene -- we now know the prescriptions were for Ambien and Vicodin. Tiger was in and out of consciousness, snoring at the scene, and our sources say he clearly appeared to be under the influence of something -- not alcohol.

We're also told doctors used a breathing tube to assist his respiration.

We're also told hospital officials changed Tiger's alias after a few hours to another alias because they feared people would find out he was there.


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To: Rebelbase

Last read, it’s up to 10, two with milti-million $$$ deals.


21 posted on 12/08/2009 5:39:22 AM PST by Pit1
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To: cycle of discernment
We're also told hospital officials changed Tiger's alias after a few hours to another alias because they feared people would find out he was there.

In retrospect, giving him the alias "Michael Jackson" was probably not well thought out.

22 posted on 12/08/2009 5:41:05 AM PST by GreenHornet
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To: cycle of discernment

23 posted on 12/08/2009 5:41:15 AM PST by WaterBoard
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To: cycle of discernment

WOW!!!

The media can find out second by second ,EVERYTHING Tiger Woods has done in the last two weeks yet not a word about President Obama’s years at Columbia University.


24 posted on 12/08/2009 5:51:08 AM PST by Le Chien Rouge
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To: KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
ROFL.

A third potential alias -- "John Daly" -- was discarded when it was learned that a fellow by that name had already been admitted for identical symptoms (including a golf club stuck in his cranium) earlier that day. It was Mr. Daly's seventeenth visit to the hospital for similar symptoms in the last five years.

25 posted on 12/08/2009 5:53:52 AM PST by Alberta's Child (God is great, beer is good . . . and people are crazy.)
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To: dennisw

“Look for a confession session with Oprah within a few months where he fesses up to sex addiction and abusing prescription drugs.”

BINGO!!!!!

It will go something like this.....

“The pressure of being the greatest golfer and world’s best known sports figure was enormous. I found myself drinking more than I should. My surgeries brought narcotic pain medicine in to my life. As any expert will tell you, being under the influence of these substances can lower inhibitions. That is what happened to me. I engaged in a pattern of behavior that I would have never thought possible. It caused me to be unfaithful to my wife. I’ll regret that for the rest of my life. I have stopped drinking. I no longer take the pain medicine. I am thinking more clearly. The past is the past. I can’t change it. I am committed to Elen and the children and to a bright future.” Tiger Woods


26 posted on 12/08/2009 5:56:26 AM PST by LeonardFMason
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To: cycle of discernment
Vicodin contains an opiate narcotic, hydrocodone, which, " when taken with alcohol....can intensify drowsiness. It may interact with monoamine oxidase inhibitors, as well as other drugs that cause drowsiness." [e.g. Ambien]

(Quote from Wikipedia)

27 posted on 12/08/2009 5:59:52 AM PST by hellbender
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To: WaterBoard

I saw the Golf Digest cover last night and thought it was a satire bit. I go to Golf Digest and sure enough the cover is legit.

Good lordt, enough already


28 posted on 12/08/2009 6:00:51 AM PST by Jazz1968
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To: Le Chien Rouge
WOW!!!

The media can find out second by second ,EVERYTHING Tiger Woods has done in the last two weeks yet not a word about President Obama’s years at Columbia University.

Ain't that the total truth. Maybe the feeding frenzy is based on the guilt trip by the Government Media to try to be "news professionals" but, alas, it is way too late.

29 posted on 12/08/2009 6:00:59 AM PST by jws3sticks (Sarah Palin forever!)
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To: LeonardFMason

****I am committed to Elin and the children and to a bright future****

Had that been the outlook from the outset Tiger could have a Phil kinda life right now.


30 posted on 12/08/2009 6:02:38 AM PST by ResponseAbility (Prepare for battle and never forsake the Lord...unknown)
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To: jws3sticks

I love this comment- they see what they want to see and tell us what they want us to know.

Beautiful

btw- this story need more sourcing


31 posted on 12/08/2009 6:04:48 AM PST by bt-99 ("its not ours to give")
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To: Le Chien Rouge

Best post of the day.

They can break the law and release private medical info.
But they can’t seem to dig up basic public records.


32 posted on 12/08/2009 6:05:27 AM PST by Scotswife
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To: LeonardFMason

You sir, will be right on the money.


33 posted on 12/08/2009 6:05:44 AM PST by votemout
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To: Le Chien Rouge

Good point.


34 posted on 12/08/2009 6:06:11 AM PST by mcshot (Our White Hut is not made up of the best and brightest, but they are practiced criminals.)
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To: cycle of discernment

If this is true it makes it even more of a mystery why the prosecutor denied a request to subpoena the medical records.


35 posted on 12/08/2009 6:10:21 AM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: Le Chien Rouge

“The media can find out second by second ,EVERYTHING Tiger Woods has done in the last two weeks yet not a word about President Obama’s years at Columbia University.”

EXACTLY!!!! ...and I want to see the papers he wrote there.
There is a REASON they are being kept hidden.


36 posted on 12/08/2009 6:11:13 AM PST by SumProVita (Cogito, ergo...Sum Pro Vita. (Modified Decartes))
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To: cycle of discernment
Tiger was in and out of consciousness, snoring at the scene, and our sources say he clearly appeared to be under the influence of something -- not alcohol.

As someone else has said, it was probably iron toxicity.

37 posted on 12/08/2009 6:11:47 AM PST by Moonman62 (The issue of whether cheap labor makes America great should have been settled by the Civil War.)
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To: SlowBoat407

Maybe, like Mitch Cumstein. He was out “night putting”?...with the fifteen year old daughter of the Dean.


38 posted on 12/08/2009 6:12:59 AM PST by massgopguy (I owe everything to George Bailey)
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To: Moonman62

Payoff?


39 posted on 12/08/2009 6:15:16 AM PST by Jane Austen (Boycott the Philadelphia Eagles!)
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To: whershey

nasal trumpet if he was snoring.. oral airway will just make him aspirate.


40 posted on 12/08/2009 6:17:09 AM PST by erman
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