Posted on 08/29/2006 6:12:51 AM PDT by areafiftyone
Ariel Sharon’s pneumonia has improved and he has been taken out of intensive care, but is still in serious condition, a hospital spokesman said in Israel today.
The former Israeli prime minister, 78, has been in a coma since he suffered the second of two strokes on January 4. He has since undergone several extensive brain operations to stop cerebral haemorrhaging, in addition to other relatively minor procedures.
Sharon was transferred back to the respiratory rehabilitation department at Tel Aviv’s Chaim Sheba Medical Center today since there had been a “noticeable improvement in his kidney function and the pneumonia in his lungs", said spokesman David Weinberg.
Sharon had an initial minor stroke in December and was put on blood thinners before suffering the severe brain haemorrhage in January. After spending months in the Jerusalem hospital where he was initially treated, Sharon was transferred to the long-term care facility at Sheba hospital in May.
He was taken into intensive care on July 26 for dialysis because his kidneys were failing. Hospital officials said they also noticed changes in his brain membrane.
Sharon’s stroke came after he saw through his contentious plan to withdraw Israel from the Gaza Strip after 38 years. Just two months before the stroke, Sharon shook up the Israeli political map by quitting his hard-line Likud Party to form the centrist Kadima faction.
Whew. For a minute there I thought he might have been in INTENSIVE care! LOL
if-brain-activity-were-the-holy-criterion-half-of-america-would-be-dead-ping
LOL Sorry about tbat. I need more coffee!
LOL I'm still spelling wrong. Tbat=that
Castro can only hope he has such good doctors to keep him alive for this long.
Is he in a forced coma?
I think he still might be in one.
I don't think it's forced. He slipped into a coma due to a massive stroke.
Hopefully Michael Schiavo is on the banned visitors list.
FrPr, I am afraid it will not go well for you in the Re-Education Camps after this Fall's election.
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