Posted on 12/26/2012 8:29:59 AM PST by ConservativeMan55
On December 15, the day after the day after the shooting at a school in Newtown, Connecticut, State Department officials notified the press that Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had fallen ill. "While suffering from a stomach virus, Secretary Clinton became dehydrated and fainted, sustaining a concussion," deputy assistant secretary Philippe Reines said in a statement to the press.
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Not if her next job is at a strip joint!
Uh-huh. Fainting doesn't usually cause concussions and one of her aides should have caught her to keep her from falling to the floor.
However, the "backfire" is that many people who suffer concussions end up with lasting brain trauma. Would we REALLY want someone who could have lasting brain trauma to have access to the nuclear button!??
Broken elbow in 2009!
Why does she fall so frequently?
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,527160,00.html
Doctor: Clinton Elbow Injury Complicated, Recovery Could Take Weeks
Published June 18, 2009
FoxNews.com
Pain, bruising, swelling and numbness are just a few of the symptoms Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is probably feeling after fracturing her right elbow during a fall Wednesday.
Clinton, who took a tumble Wednesday on her way to the White House, is facing surgery to repair her elbow and could be looking at several weeks to a few months of physical therapy depending on the extent of the injury.
Dr. Frank Alberta, an orthopedic surgeon at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey who has not treated Clinton, said there are many types of elbow fractures, but Clinton probably suffered one of the two most common kinds of fractures, depending on how she fell.
“The most common fracture you get from a standing-height fall will either be an olecranon fracture or a radial head fracture,” Alberta, who specializes in shoulder and elbow surgery, told FOXNews.com. “If she landed on her elbow and fell back on the point of her elbow, she most likely fractured her olecrenon, which is the bony point of your elbow. If she fell with her hand stretched out to catch the fall, then it may be a radial head fracture.”
In a statement released late Wednesday, chief of staff Cheryl Mills, said Clinton would undergo surgery in the coming week.
“We like to do surgery within a week depending on the type of fracture,” Alberta said. “We usually don’t do it immediately because we want the swelling to go down.”
In general, elbow surgery can last anywhere from 45 minutes to a couple of hours.
“There’ll be an incision depending on where the fracture is, and we’ll use anything from a plate and screws, all the way up to replacement of the joint to repair the injury,” Alberta said.
As far as recovery, Clinton is facing anywhere from six weeks to three months of physical therapy.
“We like to get patients moving sooner rather than later,” Alberta said. “We encourage movement right away because one of the biggest complications is stiffness, and we want patients to move early and get them going.”
In the meantime, you can plan on seeing Secretary of State Clinton with a splint and sling to complement her pant suit.
The elbow joint is made up of three bones including the humerus, which is the bone between the shoulder and the elbow; the radius, which is one of the forearm bones between and elbow and wrist; and the ulna. The ulna is the other forearm bone between the elbow and wrist.
Alberta said these injuries can be thorny to treat.
“These kinds of fractures can be complicated in terms of getting the motions right,” he said. “You have the flexion-extension movement, which is the hinge motion, and then you have the rotation of the forearm — and again these motions are provided by different bones and different joints.”
Her day is done—but don’t expect to have her exit the stage gracefully. She will be back in a new way—she will want revenge upon Obama. Wait and see. When his star starts to fall she will be working to discredit him and his motley crew.
Perhaps she’s all worked up because she knows the civil lawsuits from the family members will be coming shortly.
She’s drying out somewhere private, expensive and discreet.
“The question is, where’s Hillary and will we even see her before she leaves office?”
Not only do I not want to see her before she leaves office, I pray to God to NEVER have to see her again!
she needs to get it now so when she starts running maybe no one will notice.
Trying to get the work done new before she has to start meeting her 2013 med. deductable? ;-)
Exactly.
I personally think she’s preggers with Webb Hubbell’s baby and has been “sent away”. The whole family is terribly embarassed.
Good lord. When will conservatives abandon their favorite paranoid fantasy?
Hillary is not going to run in 2016, and even if she did, she will not be nominated. She's a worn out, aged, and pathetic harridan, whose day in the sun was over nearly twenty years ago. She has squeezed the very last drop of support out of the liberal institutional complex, and is being put out to pasture for good.
She knows it. The Dem party knows it. It's high time that rank and file conservatives realize it, too.
She’s working on her 2016 campaign. it does take a lot of time and effort, planning, etc. She and Huma are a couple of busy bees. Please don’t interrupt or interfere.
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