Lara Logan rushed to ER with internal bleeding

[avaistheone1]

Source: AOL

CBS News foreign correspondent Lara Logan was rushed to a DC hospital Wednesday with internal bleeding.

Page Six was the first to report the incident, saying Logan was diagnosed with diverticulitis and internal bleeding and is expected to stay in the hospital for a few days.




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[forest444]

2. We always knew you were full of it, Lara.

This just confirms it medically.

[CBGLuthier]

3. what a horrible thing to say

Thanks for making DU suck.

[forest444]

17. Yes, you're right. I'm kidding, of course, and certainly wish her the best.

Just not in her television career.

[DeSwiss]

5. !

[question everything]

30. Are you aware of the attack that she suffered during the so-called Arab Spring?

I wonder whether this may be related, whether some damage is still there.

I hope she recovers

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/lara-logan-breaks-silence-on-cairo-assault/

You should be ashamed.

[forest444]

33. Come off it; I clearly said I was kidding.

Besides as someone who goes by 'question everything', it might be of some interest to you to ask if she's a CIA (Mockingbird) plant or at least a political shill subordinate to someone other than 60 Minutes or CBS.

As I mentioned I wish her all the best; to live long and prosper - just not in her television career.

[Kingofalldems]

4. Wish her well.

I had that recently, only it wasn't bad enough for the hospital. For me the treatment was 5x worse that the problem. Had to take two antibiotics, one of which tasted like rotting foodstuff.

[CTyankee]

8. Yep. I had a pretty severe case several years ago and had that vile stuff...

I got it again the following year only milder and demanded a more tolerable med. My doc told me about a surgery I could have that would stop it from recurring, so I had the surgery. However, I developed an adhesion from the elective surgery and started throwing up everything, even water. Obviously that had to be fixed. I was in the hospital for a couple of months because I got an infection. It was a long siege and took me 6 months before my gut healed completely. I'm fine now but the surgery caused other problems requiring 2 more surgeries.

That was in 2007 and I'm sure glad that's all over with...

[deurbano]

11. Geez.... I'm glad it's all over with! The treatments kept causing more problems...

That must have been a very difficult (and discouraging) period.

[CTyankee]

12. I was told that adhesions or scar tissue is something that you either get or don't get

and there are no tests you can take ahead of time to find out. So I guess you just roll the dice...

[LiberalElite]

20. I got scar tissue

from a gallbladder attack a couple weeks before scheduled surgery to have the GB out. I felt this odd pulling sensation on the right when I walked. Turned out that as a result of the attack which put me in the hosp. for 4 days, my gallbladder attached itself to my intestine by scar tissue. The GB's out for 12 years now and guess what, I don't miss it.

[Kingofalldems]

14. Glad you are OK. I told my doctor the same thing.

After reading what you went through I guess I'll hold my breath and take the meds again if necessary.

[Hekate]

28. God, I'm glad you ultimately got better. And thanks for the reality check ...

... in this rather heartless thread.

[notadmblnd]

16. 7 days in the hospital for me and a 20 inch scar

and that's the least of it. I ruptured my sigmoid and they had to clean me out. When I woke from surgery it felt like some one had taken my guts and tossed them like pizza dough. That's not all, no that's not all. I get to walk around with what I lovingly call my shit bag attached to my waist for six months while I heal inside- then I get to go through the surgery again so I can be put back together.

[CTyankee]

21. A rupture like that can kill you. Seriously. Which I know you know.

I ended up with that temporary colostomy and had that fixed. Great. But I had a ventral hernia from all that surgery. The first hernia repair didn't work. Back for another go with a new surgeon. Then another hernia developed and had to have that one fixed. Now I'm fine. But it was up and down for a couple of years.

Lost of lot of digestive tissue with all that. My surgeon told me that as a result I'll never really be fat. Some people have asked me if they could have that surgery and I tell them they are crazy.

[notadmblnd]

22. Nobody want this damn surgery

I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.

[CTyankee]

23. I was told I had to have it. Also told it was done with lasers yadda yadda...

piece of cake. Right.

My former brother in law had a rupture from diverticulitis and was rushed to the hospital. Emergency surgery, middle of the night.

So I thought planning the original surgery was a good idea. Nobody told me about the risk of scar tissue.

On balance, it was better not to take a chance and wind up in emergency surgery in the middle of the night. I could choose my surgeon and time and place for the surgery. I read up on what to expect and was thinking it would be a breeze...

[notadmblnd]

24. Sounds like you've suffered much through your ordeal

I'm so sorry for that.

[CTyankee]

25. well, thanks. You're so nice! I'm just glad I'm over it and can't get it again.

I thank my lucky stars I don't have heart or cancer problems. Many other people suffer more than I have, and with life threatening diseases. What I had was curable and fixable. So I'm grateful.

[Corey_Baker08]

6. Sorry But Who Is She?

[candelista]

7. Let your fingers do the walking.

[LiberalLovinLug]

9. She was a part of a phony Benghazi smear campaign on 60 minutes

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/10477270/CBS-suspends-reporter-over-fabricated-Benghazi-raid-story.html

And of course she is married to one of the biggest MIC propagandists:

http://gawker.com/lara-logan-s-husband-was-a-propagandist-for-the-u-s-mi-1462275766

Many people know that in 2008 Logan married Joseph W. Burkett, a defense contractor she met while stationed in Baghdad to cover the Iraq War for CBS News. Logan and Burkett were both married to other people when they became involved, and the story of their war-zone love affair—complete with reports of a brawl between Burkett and CNN’s Michael Ware, another rival for Logan’s affections—lit up the tabloids at the time.

What most people don’t know, however, is the nature of Burkett’s work in Iraq. He was an employee of the Lincoln Group, a now-shuttered “strategic communications and public relations firm” hired by the Department of Defense in 2005 to plant positive stories written by American soldiers in Baghdad newspapers during the Iraq War.

“He did information operations,” one former colleague of Burkett’s told Gawker. “It was really spooky stuff. We worked with one of those special spooky IO outfits that didn’t even have a unit patch.” It’s the kind of work for which a close relationship with an American network correspondent might come in handy.

And it paid handsomely. Under an “indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract,” the Pentagon promised the Lincoln Group up to $100,000,000 to assist the military’s Joint Psychological Operations with controlling local media coverage of the American occupation


but sure....get well Lara

[Corey_Baker08]

10. Thank-you For The Info!

[NJCher]

13. Thanks, LiberalLovinLug

I was going to point this out if you hadn't. i read it late last night on Page Six.

Lara should not be reporting the news. Her Bhengazi reportage proves that these connections do indeed affect the coverage.



Cher

[Judi Lynn]

15. Thank you. n/t

[itsrobert]

18. Waiting for Righties to blame Obama hit squad

any minute now.

[question everything]

31. She was assulted in Cairo during the so called "Arab Spring"

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/lara-logan-breaks-silence-on-cairo-assault/

[34th Avenue]

19. Good luck to her

Hope she recovers.

[shenmue]

26. Ouch

Feel better.

[HERVEPA]

27. Why the rush?

[Calista241]

29. I love how she has one bad story that we disagree with, and all of a sudden she's Dick Cheney.

She's an investigative reporter. Good investigative reporters don't have agendas, and shouldn't really care if their reports irritate the current regime in power. She was willing to risk being raped, and was in fact sexually assaulted, during her reporting on the Arab Spring in Egypt.

From her point of view, if her reports on Benghazi were accurate, they would have been extremely damaging. Can you really blame her for wanting to be this generations Bob Woodward? Bob Woodward brought down a President, and for better or worse that's now the gold standard for reporters.

She made a terrible mistake. She was forced to apologize, and was suspended. Is it still worth it to ridicule her health issues?

[question everything]

32. Thank you (nt)

[Skittles]

34. I wish her well

yes indeed