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Vice President Dick Cheney: In Need of Heart Transplant?
ABC News ^ | 1-4-11 | Karen Travers

Posted on 01/04/2011 8:38:52 PM PST by STARWISE

Cheney Back in Public, Thinner, With Heart Pump

*snip*

The LVAD is implanted next to the heart to help its main pumping chamber, the left ventricle, pump blood through the body. Such devices are used mainly for short periods, to buy potential transplant candidates time as they await a donor organ.

Cardiologists said that in Cheney's case, the pump is likely a "bridge" that will keep him alive until he can receive a heart transplant. Many cardiac experts said at the time of his surgery that Cheney may be only one step away from a transplant but could find himself on a wait list for "months or years."

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Front Page News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: cachexia; cheney; cheneyhealth; cheneyheart; dickcheney; heart; lvad; transplant
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To: nickcarraway
Thanks. For some reason, I couldn't get the link to work, so I just online searched the title. All I came up with was that Cheney supports Maria Cino for RNC head, is that what this is about?

BTW, I think that Cino is precisely what we DO NOT need, and I would politely suggest to Veep Cheney that we can do much better.

41 posted on 01/04/2011 9:49:36 PM PST by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never...except to convictions of honour and good sense. W. Churchill)
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To: STARWISE

Dick Cheney doesn’t need a heart transplant. Dick Cheney causes other people to need heart transplants.


42 posted on 01/04/2011 9:50:54 PM PST by RichInOC (No! BAD Rich! (What'd I say?))
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To: STARWISE

I recognize that look. It looks like he has cachexia (wasting). It’s a symptom of heart failure and other diseases.


43 posted on 01/04/2011 9:52:20 PM PST by Moonman62 (Half of all Americans are above average. Politicians come from the other half.)
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To: nickcarraway

Please just go away.


44 posted on 01/04/2011 9:54:25 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: Seaplaner
I couldn't get the link to work, so I just online searched the title. All I came up with was that Cheney supports Maria Cino for RNC head, is that what this is about?

That's all the article said. I'm still waiting for someone to link to this seemingly mythical story about how Cheney supports Obamacare. I would be deeply disappointed if it were true, but how hard could something like that be to validate?

45 posted on 01/04/2011 9:58:25 PM PST by Junior_G (Funny how liberals' love affair with Muslims began on 9/11)
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To: nickcarraway
But if you think I'm not going to call out ANYONE who is trying to destroy our Constitution, you are sadly mistake. Once bitten, twice shy.

social graces, buddy... there is a time and a place for everything...

46 posted on 01/04/2011 10:00:30 PM PST by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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To: Outlaw Woman
Report: Boehner making calls for Cino in RNC race
47 posted on 01/04/2011 10:02:12 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: latina4dubya

Hmmm, I still remember the horrible things people were saying about Obama the weekend his grandmother died.


48 posted on 01/04/2011 10:03:20 PM PST by nickcarraway
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To: freedumb2003

“If it was this o-kenyan administration there on 9/11 there would have been hundreds of immediate attacks on 9/12, 9/13 and continuing, probably to this day.”

Right - but he’s (BHO) certainly made up for lost time, hasn’t he?

Back to Bush/Cheney - there’s only one question I’ve ever been able to ask that shuts up any liberal: “on 9/11, would you rather have had Al Gore/Joe Lieberman in the White House?” Silence, crickets chirping - despite their usual declarations ad nauseum about GW “stealing” the 2000 election.


49 posted on 01/04/2011 10:05:39 PM PST by llandres
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To: STARWISE

Thanks for the ping. I feel sick all over..truly. It’s like being in the middle of a nightmare.


50 posted on 01/04/2011 10:09:54 PM PST by Outlaw Woman
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To: nickcarraway
Hmmm, I still remember the horrible things people were saying about Obama the weekend his grandmother died.

and that is bad form...

51 posted on 01/04/2011 10:10:33 PM PST by latina4dubya ( self-proclaimed tequila snob)
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To: STARWISE

God Bless him, a patriot, and one of the last real men in government.


52 posted on 01/04/2011 10:12:37 PM PST by roses of sharon (I can do all things through Him who strengthens me. Philippians 4:13)
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To: smoothsailing
Looking pretty good there for a man of his years:

We needed him when he was there. Now, he needs our prayers. He gets mine without reservation. A man of great heart (absolutely no pun of any kind meant), dignity and soul. He took on a VERY difficult assignment, and did his job well.

God Bless you, Mr. Cheney! I, for one, will always thank you for your selfless contribution to the USA!

53 posted on 01/04/2011 10:13:14 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Nothing sharpens the mind like not being able to get a job. /Nonstatist)
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To: aliquando

“Pelosi has not used hers in years. It should be good to go!”

Nah - hers is deficient. He deserves a really good one.


54 posted on 01/04/2011 10:15:08 PM PST by llandres
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To: nickcarraway

OK, since being nice doesn’t seem to work, can you please just go to hell? Please... just go. We’ll wait.


55 posted on 01/04/2011 10:23:46 PM PST by Ramius (Personally, I give us... one chance in three. More tea?)
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To: nickcarraway

“Hmmm, I still remember the horrible things people were saying about Obama the weekend his grandmother died.”

Please. He didn’t exactly rush to her bedside, he took his time and made sure the media also had time to hype it. Then, he was only there for, what, one day??? Look into his family (all of it) and history - you’ll find there’s no loyalty there.


56 posted on 01/04/2011 10:30:23 PM PST by llandres
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To: freedumb2003; Outlaw Woman; roses of sharon
Amen!

He is a gritty, steely-eyed, unflinching, true blue patriot warrior for America, land that he and we love, and he *knows* fully the evil that replaced Pres. Bush and him.


57 posted on 01/04/2011 10:32:59 PM PST by STARWISE (The overlords are in place .. we are a nation under siege .. pray, go Galt & hunker down)
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To: STARWISE

What a look - that says it all.


58 posted on 01/04/2011 10:36:12 PM PST by llandres
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To: llandres
Dick Cheney is going to be O.K. He and I both grew up drinking water out of the North Platte. I was born and raised in Douglas Wyoming, Dick grew up in Casper, and anyone who can live through those winters and the wind can surly overcome a little heart problem. Dick I expect to see you out whipping a tricorathodes (sp) this spring.
59 posted on 01/04/2011 10:44:05 PM PST by BooBoo1000 (" Let go, and Let God")
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To: STARWISE

Hoping for the best. May G-d be with you Mr.VP.


60 posted on 01/04/2011 10:49:52 PM PST by Impala64ssa
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