Dick Cheney Dying?
A month ago, I posted about Dick Cheney entering the hospital yet again for heart issues (i.e. he doesn’t have one). At the time, we were told this was routine and he would be going home shortly. Of course that was a lie. Ask yourselves if we have heard from the dark lord over the last month? The answer is no, we haven’t. The reason why is Dick Cheney never left the hospital.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is still in the hospital after heart surgery in early July. […] After the operation, Cheney said in a statement that he was entering a new phase of treatment for what he called “increasing congestive heart failure.”
So instead of going home, he had another heart surgery, his sixth.
Former Vice President Dick Cheney is recuperating from surgery to implant the kind of mechanical pump now being given to a small but growing number of people with heart failure so severe that they would most likely die within a few months without it. […]
The pumps are partial artificial hearts known as ventricular assist devices, and they come in various models. Mr. Cheney’s kind is about the size of a D battery and leaves most recipients without a pulse because it pushes blood continuously instead of mimicking the heart’s own pulsatile beat. Most such pulse-less patients feel nothing unusual. But they are urged to wear bracelets or other identifications to alert emergency room doctors as to why they have no pulse.
Dear Lord. I digress to say that if Sarah Palin’s death panels and health care rationing did exist, Dick Cheney would be an obvious candidate for being ordered to go home and die. But of course, he still lives, and that is ironic, for it disproves further Republican lies about the health care reform, but like I said, I digress. So how long will Cheney survive with this device?
Dr. Frazier said he had implanted a total of 170 such pumps as of June 1, more than any other surgeon. Of those, 24 were in patients 65 and older and 11 of the 24 were in patients older than 70. The oldest was 76. Nine of the 24 have died, and seven of the nine did not leave the hospital. Six of the 15 survivors received heart transplants. The remaining nine are living with the pump. The longest survivor at his hospital had an implant in his 30s and has lived five and a half years.
Dick Cheney is not in his 30’s. To live much longer, he will probably require a heart transplant. And I would think that he is not a good candidate for one. So yes, Dick Cheney is dying. And because only the good die young or quickly, I expect his dying will be as horrible and long lasting as his life has been.
Again, I ask, how can one have heart surgery when one doesn’t have a heart?
Brothers and sisters,
Let me,as an anoited pilot/prophet,or,speaker of true things,ease your minds at this,your time of sorrow and concern about our dear DICK.
DICK will NEVER die.The policies,programs,secret deals shall continue to kill,maim and steal from good American taxpayers in perpetuity.
We can all take comfort in that.
Now,let us join hands,turn our eyes to the sky and sing the refrain from MONSTER,by STEPPENWOLF:
(America)
America where are you now?
Don’t you care about your sons and daughters?
Don’t you know we need you now
We can’t fight alone against the monster
LOL
one last hunting trip:)?
Yes, I read yesterday that Cheney had never left the hospital. I had also read that Cheney is in the end stages of congestive heart failure. His heart pump is only to keep him alive so that he can get a heart transplant.
if he gets another human beings heart there is NO justice
Although I’m not familiar with this samll VAD, a VAD is typically used only as a bridge to transplant or death.
1) We are all dying, from the moment of conception forward.
2) Your gloating about the presumed closeness of a political opponent to death’s door is telling. And it is indicative of a lack of class on your part. No matter how contemptuous I am of Hillary and Bill Clinton, I pray they live to be known by their great grandchildren. And while I consider the current incumbent to be the worst president of my lifetime and the single worst thing to have happened to this country in my lifetime (9/11 excepted), It is my hope that he and Michelle live a long and happy life together. Would that you had the human decency to do likewise regarding Bush, Cheney, and others whose ideology you oppose.
He is a grandpa to somebody.
Ah, the human decency argument. Last refuge of the common scold.
“He is a grandpa to somebody.”
Would it be OK to wish him dead if he weren’t? Would his life be worth less if he had no children?
I am not gloating. If I were gloating, you would see celebratory language in my post above, like “Thank God” or “Ding Dong the Dick is dying” or something.
But I am also not going to pretend I love or even like the man. And I am not going to pretend that I am sad, and I am not going to offer sympathy to him. Because that would be insincere.
You’re right Joanne, he is a grandfather to someone, and if I do feel sympathy or sadness, it is for them, and even for Lynn Cheney and Liz Cheney. But I do not feel sympathy for Dick.
well all I have to say is this:
according to the Book of the Dead of the Egyptians his heart will be weighed against a feather to determine his worth..
therefore – it is up to noone but his creator to determine
is his heart heavier than a feather????
only those who know his heart will know the outcome – those who have suffered under his actions-can only pray
God – have mercy on them all
I agree Aoine that God will be the final judge of Dick Cheney. But not the only.
I wonder if the slow suffocation of congestive heart failure feels like waterboarding?
“What are they gonna say about him? What are they gonna say? That he was a kind man? That he was a wise man? That he had plans, man? That he had wisdom? Bullshit, man!”
That about says it all for me,man.
You can live a long time with congestive heart failure. My grandmother has had it for more than a decade.
And “congestive heart failure” can be a temporary condition as well, as we found out with my wife about 5 years ago. A massive infection helped bring it on, and after the infection cleared and her body had time to heal, the entire issue went away.
Cheney, of course, has a radically different situation.
UI–this ain’t your grandmother’s CHF. Anyone needing a VAD is indeed critical, and not responsive to the routine cardiac medications that your grandmother and millions of others normally respond to. His CHF is engine work, and not an oil change. I was surprised he’s only 69. Although a bit more refined, since being first introduced, it is still ultra high tech, sophisticated, somewhat still quasi-experimental, Hail Mary medical intervention. Sounds like he’s heading towards Barney Clark territory. The VAD is not the same as the ubiquitous pacemaker. He’s a real land mine now.
Delware Liberal,
Of course, since you are not a doctor, nor you do know exactly what Cheney’s MEDICAL condition is, your entire blog was a waste of time. Before writing such CRAP, you should have investigated LVAD, UNOS, cardiac transplantation, etc. Once you fully understood the gravity of the situation, then perhaps, but still doubtful, you may have written an intelligent blog.
As a heart transplant recipient that also was on an LVAD, I find your article in VERY poor and VERY BIASED taste.
First, LVAD surgery is MORE difficult to recover from than an actual heart transplant. I’ve seen people in the 30’s spend MONTHS in the hospital recovering. This is NOT a simple bandaid procedure. I was in my early 50’s, and I was in the CCU for 82 days.
Let’s just say that Karma’s a bitch …. and you will learn that at some point. Becareful what you wish for ….. YOU might get EXACTLY that wish.
totally agree, Karma IS a bitch and for that I thankk my higher power.
And I would like to ADD:
DELWARE LIBERAL[sic],Why don’t you wish in one hand then evacuate your BOWELS in the other? See which one gets filled up first.
THEN,take the hand filled with the excrement secreted from your anal orafice and THROW IT into the FACE of HEART TRANSPLANT!!!!
Cheney and Bill Casey will be laughing at us from Hell where they will keep their secrets forever.
What sickness do we the living have that we will not bring these people to to swift justice while they are still alive.
Biden and Obama have had Congestive Brain failure since January 2009 as they continue to water board the country with unemployment and terrible spending paid for by the Chinese.
This man is the very definition of pure evil. My mother had a saying that “God don’t like ugly”, and I can’t think of an uglier creature. Until he got too sick, he was still trying to subvert the President’s ability to prosecute the Afghan war. There is no doubt that his actions have resulted in the deaths of thousands of innocent people. For the crimes he has committed he should be executed.The sooner he dies, the better.
“My mother had a saying that “God don’t like ugly”,…
“The sooner he dies, the better.”
Which God was that? Just curious.
DFTT – is that the best you can come up with? What, are you hanging around a school yard listening to the 1st graders? FAIL!!!
Dead yet?
The real question is if it’s a go on transplant will they come up with a donor over night and put Cheyney at the head of the line. Count on it.