Ginsburg fell ill after receiving an intravenous iron therapy. Arberg said Ginsburg felt better after being attended by a physician at the court"
I want a full autopsy and toxicology test to discover all the drugs taken.
Posted on 09/24/2009 11:42:20 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
Update.
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was admitted to the Washington Hospital Center Thursday after falling ill at the Supreme Court. Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said Ginsburg fell ill after receiving an intravenous iron therapy. Arberg said Ginsburg felt better after being attended by a physician at the court, but was taken to the hospital as a precaution.
Ginsburg's health has been a concern since the 76-year-old justice was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer earlier this year. In February, doctors removed her spleen and a tiny tumor on her pancreas. Ginsburg said the operation was a complete success, and that she was cancer-free. She underwent what she called a precautionary round of chemotherapy in the spring, but never missed a day of the court's public sessions.
She has kept up a rigorous schedule of speaking engagements and work on the court and has said she does not plan to leave the court for years.
A statement from the court follows:
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was taken to the Washington Hospital Center this evening after feeling ill in her Chambers earlier in the day. SNIP
One hour following the completion of this infusion, she felt faint, developed light headedness and fatigue. Medical assistance was summoned from the Office of the Attending Physician and medical evaluation disclosed a slightly low blood pressure which can occur following this treatment. She was monitored at the Court, blood tests were performed and she was found to be in stable health. Fluids were administered and her symptoms improved, but she was taken as a precaution for evaluation at the Washington Hospital Center at approximately 7:45 p.m.
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i hope so too. Cancer and cancer treatment sucks. I watched my mother go thru it for several years. There’s just too much suffering wih the big “C”. It’s no good.
She'd be pushin' up daisies right now if she had been covered under ObamaCare. When you're 76, all you're going to get with ObamaCare is a pill and a glass of water.
Well put. But, I am sure she would be on the special ‘no death panel’ list.
Health wishes, of course; but — has there ever been a more thoroughly, knee-jerk, communist, lefty justice than Ruth?
If so, who? If not, then I’m very glad for Judicial term-limits.
I don’t think she has any “term limit” other than dying or stepping down. I am pretty sure that’s in the Constitution. But, who knows these days?
“Are you saying that if heroin were legalized, the FDA could not regulate it?”
I “think” that’s what I meant! Those “term limits” sneak up on those Supremes from time to time. Sometimes, I’m glad for it. Now is such a time./sarc
got ya!
I want a full autopsy and toxicology test to discover all the drugs taken.
Sad that pancreatic cancer has crappy prognosis...But if anyone has to leave the Supreme court, let it be the liberals since O is filling in the spots....
not if I were on that panel.
Here ya go deary, take your pill and take that dirt nap and trip to hell.
Well said; this is one evil person. Her recent comments about how abortion was supposed to get rid of undesirables was an indication that she was slipping; they’re suppose to hide the agenda with “women’s rights” rhetoric instead of the “Master Race” stuff.
Well that “master race”, b.s. didn’t seem to go very far.
This swine flu, aids, and abortion was supposed to rid us of all those inferior blacks, latinos.
I personally think the swine flu meds are meant to kill whitey.
I predict that 0bama will nominate a replacement for her that will make Sotomeyer look tame.
She is in big trouble. A diagnosis of pancreatic cancer generally means you should not even bother buying green bananas; you won’t last long enough to eat them.
A real worry....look at those czars.
I hope that she lives until another republican sits in the Whitehouse.
LLS
Maybe; at least they made it less hateful (remember “Mexican swine flu”?). /s
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