Pataki Remains Hospitalized; No Discharge Date Set

The Associated Press ^ | 27 February 2006 | (AP)

[george76]

Gov. George Pataki remained hospitalized Monday nearly a week after undergoing a surgery to correct a postoperative complication related to an emergency appendectomy.

Pataki, 60, continued eating some food Monday but also remained on intravenous nutrition and antibiotics to reduce the risk of an abscess...

`The governor's doctors have indicated that there has been a slow return of normal digestive function because of the ruptured appendix,'' ...

Pataki was originally to be released two days after the Feb. 16 appendectomy.

``The governor continues to be in good spirits and is reading, walking around and conducting state business,'' ...

[george76]

[george76]

Wow.

Almost two weeks.

[goodnesswins]

STAYING in the Hospital is NOT good for your health, unless you are REALLY sick.

[Walkingfeather]

because of the ruptured appendix,''
THAT IS NOT GOOD!

[Bookmark]

I wish the Governor a healthy and speedy recovery.

I don't always agree with the Governor, especially when he leans left on an important, core, issue. But he's a good man.

[Capriole]

He must be really sick. These days they discharge you from the hospital after eighteen hours even if you've had your head amputated.

[Iwo Jima]

"Intravenous feeding" not tube feeding, but intravenous. Wonder what that is? TPN?

[patton]

chew gum

[krb]

Poor guy. I hope he pulls through.

[Capriole]

Tube feeding means that the patient has a tube surgically installed to introduce food directly into his stomach. That's a more serious kind of thing than a simple IV delivering a solution to his bloodstream.

[PzLdr]

Brain transplant - that failed.

[wideminded]

These days they discharge you from the hospital after eighteen hours even if you've had your head amputated.

My son had an appendectomy recently and was out of the hospital in about 36 hours.

[mkjessup]

Wonder if we're seeing the American version of Ariel Sharon syndrome?

[samantha]

It sounds to me like they may have found something else besides a ruptured appendix. Maybe Colon cancer, or stomach cancer. Two weeks is a long time and unless he had the worst kind of peritonitis I don't get it.

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

Totally uncalled for.

[al baby]

Did they remove his bibliography as well?

[Solamente]

[jocon307]

"It sounds to me like they may have found something else besides a ruptured appendix."

Yes, there must be something seriously wrong with him. Ernie Fletcher of KY is still in the hospital too, although he may be sent home in a day or two, but he will still be on IV antibiotics. He had surgery for a gall stone and had complications and developed an infection.

I wish them both a speedier recovery than they've had so far.

[mewzilla]

Boy, the NYP doesn't pull any punches, does it?

[Galveston Grl]

Ruptured appendicitis is very serious. I know someone who almost died from that in her twenties.

[george76]

I read some time ago that Ruptured appendicitis was the number one killer of men until the 1930's when penicillin was discovered.

Child birth was number one for women.

[george76]

"Still showing signs of fever nearly two weeks after undergoing an emergency appendectomy."

http://www.wcbs880.com/pages/10925.php

Ruptured appendicitis is very serious.

[AuH2ORepublican]

Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan (D-NY) died of ruptured appendicitis just a couple of years ago.

[Donna Lee Nardo]

That is hilarious and true.