Posted on 04/13/2007 2:40:56 AM PDT by HAL9000
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The duration and distance were short, but in those dizzying seconds and feet, Gov. Jon Corzine suffered injuries serious enough to land him in intensive care with a breathing tube down his throat and a doctor declaring him lucky to be alive.The 60-year-old governor underwent about two hours of surgery last night to repair multiple broken bones, including 12 ribs and a femur that protruded through the skin of his thigh following a car accident on the Garden State Parkway in Galloway Township.
With two of his adult children by his beside, Corzine, sedated and on intravenous painkillers, remains in intensive care in Cooper University Hospital in Camden this morning. He required seven pints of blood, officials said, and is using a breathing tube to ease his respiration with the broken ribs, and a broken breastbone.
The governor also suffered a broken collarbone and lower back bone and a flap-like cut on his skull, which was a plastic surgeon stitched back together.
Corzine spokesman Anthony Coley said the governor did not appear to have suffered brain or spinal cord damage.
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Did Corzine ever express an opinion on the Terry Schiavo case?
IMHO, if he can't speak coherently, then we should just pull his breathing tube, let him die with dignity and let his surviving loved ones get "closure" to this tragedy so that they can get on with their own lives.
And for you humor impaired readers, that was just an example of what is called "sarcasm".
The femur is one of the long bones that makes red blood cells.
-SEVEN pints of blood? Dang, sounds pretty bad to me.
A broken femur often means death within minutes from blood loss
Which is total bull sh!t and a LONG way from
The femur is very vascular and fractures can result in significant blood loss into the thigh. Up to 40% of isolated fractures may require transfusion."
Then you try and maintain a false position because your ego won't let you admit that you're wrong. There are those who are willing to learn and there are those who cleave to ignorance because they cannot admit being wrong. You fall into the latter category. have a great day.
Is there a difference?
What is it about injury or death that suddenly makes a liberal jerk into a saint? I'd really like to know. Prayers for a speedy end to his misery.
Seatbelts aren’t the end-all be-all.
I’m just reacting because I’m sick of all the fascist laws making us wear seatbelts - and tired of how the liberal fascists have made even conservatives think it’s “just the right thing to do” to force people to wear them or get molested and fined.
The other week I fleetingly heard a news story on our local radio. Unfortunately I don’t recall just what all happened and to whom (I think it was someone rather VIP, like a cop or sheriff). However, the important part was that VIP was wearing his seatbelt when he got into some kind of rollover or something. Some 2 people (NOT EMTs) had to get him out of his seatbelt (he couldn’t - he was passed out) to get him out of the car before it blew up or further fell (can’t recall which - of course no more reports about it). Luckily they were able to. That’s just 1 more difficulty though that has to be cleared before getting to safety.
Regardless of his politics which I dispise, I can still have it in my heart to wish another person a speedy recovery.
Those and many more - proudly typing whatever keys my fingers hit at random for years.
I didn’t think it was so serious. Hear this morning and while they described the accident (it was indirect), they only said “some broken bones” as if it was no big deal.
Prayers to God for his recovery. Awful thing.
Wow. Did everybody in the car survive?
I understand your view, but it’s still the nice thing to do.
He’d have to be a murderer along the lines of Klintoon for me to not think twice about it.
Since he’s not, I’ll forgive him and wish him well.
And after all, to paraphrase a famous quote:
“a liberal is just a conservative who hasn’t *had his life flash before his eyes* yet” ;-)
To me liberals like him and his ilk are the enemy. They have been trying most of my adult life to disarm and enslave me (taxes), and if they had a chance to do it they would in a hearbeat. If I lived in NJ he would send his JBTs to kill me or arrest me simply for the firearms I own. I can't generate much sympathy for him.
This is what has been reported (below). I don’t think it should be referred to as a “hit and run.” It could be that the red pickup, since it was ahead of the accident, wasn’t even aware of what happened.
The SUV was struck by a white pickup that swerved to avoid a red pickup that had swerved from the shoulder onto the highway. The governor’s vehicle, driven by Trooper Robert Rasinski, clipped the white pickup and slid into a guardrail.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,265741,00.html
Niceness to liberals is why GWB II sucks up to Teddy the Fat and why we have no child left behind. I just can't bring myself to do it. See post 114.
The marrow of long bones has a rich network of vessels that drain into a central venous canal, emissary veins, and, ultimately, the central circulation. The bone marrow therefore functions as a noncollapsible venous access route when peripheral veins may have collapsed because of vasoconstriction. This approach is particularly important in patients in shock or cardiac arrest, when blood is shunted to the core with peripheral vasoconstriction. The IO route allows medications and fluids to enter the central circulation within seconds.
Believe me, I’m not “NICE”. I love Coulter’s way of shaking it up. I’m not going to be “nice” to Moslems or illegals. And I have come around to calling liberals (to their faces) communists whether they know it or not.
But someone’s ill or hurt, I still wish them well.
As I tried to indicate, you never know if the guy will change, maybe from such an incident.
What, it takes two seconds to cut the seat belt if it’s in the way.
The times that a seat belt will be a hindrance can be counted on the hands and feet. Thousands of lives are saved by those seat belts.
It’s possible that his broken ribs were caused by being too close to the air bag when it went off because the seat belt tensioner which pulls you away first didn’t work because he wasn’t wearing a seat belt.
I ran into a pole at 20 mph (dead stop, the pole was concrete, I ended up 12 inches back from it in recoil), and suffered nothing more than bruises from where the seat belt yanked me back (I have explosive tensioners). My sythentic jacket had melt marks from where the belt slid while being pulled. The bag also went off.
I was leaning forward at the time because the sun had just struck my car and I was foolishly wiping some dirt off the windshield to cut down the glare.
I’m pretty sure that if the seat belt hadn’t yanked me back, I would have broken my ribs from leaning up against the air bag when it went off.
Interesting, maybe they came to the same conclusion I did, only mine was years ago. I got tired of reading the headlines, “Snowstorm causes numerous accidents”. It should read, “Local dunderheads (or suitable substitute) engage in destruction derby caused by horrible hand eye coordination, and bad driving skills”. All at fault, had their driving privileges revoked.
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