Posted on 11/09/2018 9:32:50 AM PST by Trueblackman
I was discussing with a fellow Conservative yesterday this narrative about Ginsberg's fall that supposedly broke 3 of her ribs & allot of things aren't simply adding up.
First of all over the years I have had bruised ribs & I can tell you that it hurt like no other pain!
How does an 85 year old frail Woman break 3 ribs, goes home and only shows up at the hospital several hours later because of the pain & is now released less than 30 hours later? Something here isn't passing the smell test!
I told my friend "I highly suspect that this is simply a cover story for some other greater medical condition such as her ongoing battle with skin cancer."
Having lived in the Washington DC Area all my life & two trips to George Washington Hospital Center myself, I'm fully aware of the hospital reputation for top notch cancer treatment as I suspect that as a youth my Father received cancer treatments there.
As I told my friend, "Unless Ginsberg is Wonder Woman (No we don't need that visual to all you clever Freepers out there) no one of that great age breaks 3 ribs(Why were no EMT summoned by her staff as she could have puncture a lung) simply is allowed to go home for a few hours & then either is taken to GWHC by her driver or drives there herself!
Cover story.
You think it was the same guy who punched McCain?
Allot?
What is that?
Why do you even care?
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Treadmill accodent, just ask Hairy Reid
In many ways the Dems act like a Soviet Party
They scratch and climb the greasy pole of politics their entire life, so the top ones like Clinton and Pelosi will never, ever give up power or influence. They will go out feet first. they also lie and cover-up their health failures, until one day, the world suddenly finds out they are dead.
I broke 2 ribs skiing once... worst pain ever.
Every time you breath it flexes, so it takes forever to heal.
Horrible 6 weeks. I could not take a deep breath so I caught pneumonia and the coughing nearly killed me.
Hard to tell - not uncommon for the treatments she’s gone through to weaken the bones and that has been known to result in events that entail much lower pain....older and feebler people often break bones and don’t realize it right away - especially if it’s more cracked than snapped.
Old people can be stubborn. My grandfather injured his arm. When he was finally dragged in for an x-ray it was found to be broken. A week later the cast was itchy so he cut it off.
I broke 3 ribs in my mid 30’s and I was wrecked for at least 3 months; granted I went back to work too soon because I’m an idiot but I wasn’t 85. Something smells funky here. Cadillac health plan or not.
Had broken ribs 3 different times.
You don't walk quickly, you don't cough, you don't laugh, or breath very deeply.
At ages 10, 30, and 42 they took 6 weeks to heal.
Allot
verb (used with object), al·lot·ted, al·lot·ting.
to divide or distribute by share or portion; distribute or parcel out; apportion: to allot the available farmland among the settlers.
to appropriate for a special purpose: to allot money for a park.
to assign as a portion; set apart; dedicate.
I don’t know how or when she went to the hospital but ALL of the symptoms she’s been displaying recently - frailness, wearing gloves to hide bruises on her hands, now the fall - are consistent with her having advanced vascular disease. It’s also been previously reported that she has low blood pressure which is another sign of geriatric vascular disease. If her extremities fall asleep often, which happens a lot for seniors that have vascular disease, she’s probably bumping them and causing the bruises which take months for someone with low-blood-pressure to heal. Hence the gloves. Vascular disease also causes sufferers to pass out due to the low blood pressure. Likely what happened before she fell. If she really did break three ribs and has low blood pressure it will be nigh impossible for her body to ever heal completely from the injury. Her veins are likely collapsing due to low blood pressure already so it will be very hard for her body get enough blood to the damaged ribs to heal them in anything less than eight months. Transfusions help immediately after the fall occurs but only the body can long-term heal itself. I had a relative who finally succumbed to vascular disease and her symptoms are very similar to his.
She was released this morning. I am surprised by this.
I'll tell you how. An 85 year old woman usually has a lot of calcium loss from their bones, making them more susceptible to being cracked or broken with much less force required. (How many times have you heard of an old woman falling and breaking their hip? How many times have you heard of an 18 year old falling and breaking their hip?)
I have known old women who have fallen and cracked a bone, and didn't realize it until the pain didn't subside and they went in to see a doctor. Being easier to fracture also means less trauma, less pain.
Your fractured ribs at 20-30-40 something does not equate to fractured ribs in an 85 year old woman.
The down side is that it will take much longer for her bones to knit for all of the same reasons that they were more easily broken in the first place.
Time for Ruth to retire...
I know exactly what you mean about ribs. I fell and injured my ribs once, and I can agree with you that it is excruciating with every breath. I can’t imagine the pain if the ribs were broken. And even just my injured ribs took a few weeks before I could take a deep breath.
No biggie. I believe her. Weirder things have actually happened.
Because they are likely hiding a more serious illness, with major political consequences.
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