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.