Cheney Has Device Implanted in His Heart

[EmeraldCityGrl]

Source: The Oval

As many of you know, I have dealt with coronary artery disease for decades, suffering my first heart attack in 1978 at age 37. Over the years, excellent care from my doctors and advances in medicine and technology have allowed me to live a full and active life, for which I am very grateful.

A few weeks ago, it became clear that I was entering a new phase of the disease when I began to experience increasing congestive heart failure. After a series of recent tests and discussions with my doctors, I decided to take advantage of one of the new technologies available and have a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) implanted. The LVAD is a small implantable pump that improves heart function and will enable me to resume an active life.

Last week I underwent surgery at Inova Fairfax Heart and Vascular Institute and had an LVAD implanted. The operation went very well and I am now recuperating.

blah, blah, blah...

Read more: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2010/07/cheney-has-device-implanted-in-heart/1

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Sorry about the source, it's all I had. This device is used as a bridge to transplant. I'm not sure transplants are given to people of his age, but if they were,
the thought that my heart could be implanted in this vile man is frightening.

[foxfeet]

1. It shocks him back to life whenever he has a charitable thought.

[bif]

2. How much does Dick pay for insurance?

Oh yea, he gets the Govt. insurance we can't have.

[saigon68]

99. Ah yes ------War Criminal "5 deferments" Dick-less Cheney

Monster extraordinaire.

When the going got tough ----he dodged the Draft.

A bully and a coward.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

3. .

[mediaman007]

4. Why does he continually postpone his call from the Lord?

He's had at least 5 deferments here too!

[leftofcool]

7. LMAO!

[CreekDog]

66. other way around

The Lord is blessing us with technological advances to keep him down here as long as possible.

[Solly Mack]

5. tick tock

[bdamomma]

109. HA!!! exactly

karma will get him.

[rocktivity]

6. A wooden stake?

:headbang:
rocktivity

[penndragon69]

8. OMG.....

They actually found a working heart in that Satanic troll?

[anachro1]

9. Pray to your Gods

the goddamn thing blows up in his chest.

[SusanaMontana41]

97. roflmao!

:rofl:

[Warpy]

10. The LVAD went from a huge console to a backpack

when I cared for people who had them. Now some of the controllers are small enough to clip onto a pair of suspenders. Seven years ago, they were just beginning the approval process to use them in people who were in end stage heart failure but not candidates for transplant. It seems that approval has finally come through.

If The Dick is careful, he might make it to trial.

Read about the two basic types here: http://my.clevelandclinic.org/heart/disorders/heartfailure/lvad_devices.aspx

[Dogmudgeon]

19. "End-stage heart failure"

I never saw anyone with end-stage heart failure who lasted more than a year.

My dad lasted about three months. My grandmother lasted eight. Both had severe left-side "remodeling" (heart deformation and atrophy); both were considered to have done very well.

--d!

[Warpy]

21. With the LVAD approved for heart failure patients who aren't

transplant recipients (yeah, I had to look it up), the prognosis is a little better. The Dick might actually survive the decade it will take to bring charges.

He's going to feel quite chipper, in fact, and his organ systems will begin to repair themselves as his perfusion is improved.

But yes, the course of end stage heart failure without it is short and grisly. I've seen people survive as many as five years, but they didn't like it and they were in the hospital almost as much as they were home.

[PlanetBev]

62. My dad lasted nine months

Died December 2009. CHF sucks, big time.

[CountAllVotes]

92. sorry for your loss

:hug:

[Joe Bacon]

103. Chandra's heart finally rejected him.

You can't ask me to have any sympathy for that rat bastard.

I WILL party when he finally goes to hell.

[Birthmark]

11. They must be marvellously skilled doctors...

...to hit something that small.

[davidinalameda]

61. makes me think of the Grinch

hehe

[bikebloke]

12. A carborator from a '63 Ford.

They finally found one in Larry's Junkyard.

[peace frog]

13. What heart?

I'll agree he has something implanted in his chest cavity but from where I sit, this poor excuse for a human being has no heart.

[Chemical Bill]

22. +1

[Critters2]

89. My thoughts exactly. nt

[bdamomma]

110. no heart and what blood to keep the thing working?

[Roland99]

14. One thing's for sure...that fucking coward will never be a patient at a VA hospital

and have to endure the hardships that our men and women in uniform have had to deal with thanks to that DICK's war for oil.

[davidwparker]

15. Two questions

1. Would this device be deemed experimental by insurance companies and not covered for the working class?
2. Would the working class have the same health care options which Cheney has?

[EmeraldCityGrl]

56. +10

[Spazito]

16. Damn, the "Darth Vader" comparison is becoming more and more...

a reality vis a vis the 'mechanics' of it all.

[GentryDixon]

17. A stake?

[Po_d Mainiac]

114. Exactly!..U beat me to it n/t

[Dakota Flint]

18. The surgery lasted hours....

The surgical team spent the majority of the time diligently searching Cheney's chest cavity with an electron microscope before they found that minuscule black lump he has for a heart.

[SusanaMontana41]

98. I kind of feel bad about laughing

but just can't help it.
:rofl:

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

20. So, that means he had no device implanted at all, correct? -nt

[Lone_Star_Dem]

23. Cheney recuperating from heart surgery

Source: Associated Press

WASHINGTON -- Former Vice President Dick Cheney says he underwent heart surgery last week and is recuperating.

In a statement, Cheney said he had been experiencing increasing congestive heart failure and after consultations with his doctors, he had received an implantable pump to improve heart function. He said the operation went well and he is recuperating.

The 69-year-old Cheney has a long history of heart disease. Cheney's heart attack earlier this year was his fifth since age 37.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/14/AR2010071404430.html

[hatrack]

24. How sad!

nt`

[BurtWorm]

25. He's an inspiration to undead people everywhere.

:patriot:

[harun]

106. lol

[femmocrat]

26. He does have the best health care the people can buy.

:eyes:

[hobbit709]

27. He has one? Imagine that.

[xchrom]

28. gee -- he's got good insurance. nt

[backscatter712]

29. He has a heart? n/t

[tabatha]

30. Just a physical one beating thanks to modern technology.

So I guess it is just bits and pieces of hardware.

[sasquuatch55]

38. Best wishes for the Grim Reaper; soon my friend.

nt

[aquart]

31. Congestive heart failure? Doesn't that feel like drowning?

And he didn't like the feeling?

[Cleita]

34. Yep.

Poetic justice isn't it.

[Mad_Dem_X]

101. +100

[bdamomma]

111. hmm... want to feel like waterboarding feels like Dick?

[anachro1]

32. There will be dancing in the streets

when this useless motherfucker dies.

[superconnected]

33. Looks like what ever heart he has is trying to kill him.

"The 69-year-old Cheney has a long history of heart disease. Cheney's heart attack earlier this year was his fifth since age 37. "

[TwentyFive]

35. The only remotely postive news in this story are the words FORMER VICE PRESIDENT n/t

[liberal N proud]

36. How do they operate on a non existent organ?

[Demeter]

90. Faith Healing?

[RamboLiberal]

37. Nice to have that govt funded health care isn't it Dick!

I'd like to cut the deficit by taxpayers stopping payment on your policy.

[BumRushDaShow]

39. Cheney underwent heart surgery last week

Source: MSNBC




Read more: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38248507/ns/politics/

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:popcorn:

[Hassin Bin Sober]

40. Go to the light, Dick!

[sce56]

108. No there will be no light for him it will be the black shadows coming to get him!

[Submariner]

41. I hope his death doesn't interfere with the Beverly Hillbillies reruns

If that POS dies and screws up the TV schedule, THEN I'll be upset. Otherwise, not so much.

[Botany]

42. 1.3 dead Iraqis, the Gulf of Mexico under mortal threat, and everything else ..

"A few weeks ago, it became clear that I was entering a new phase of the disease when I began to experience increasing congestive heart failure,"
Cheney said in a statement.

I hope lives on for a long painful life .... clutching his chest, unable to catch his breath, and a fear of his death never far from his thoughts.

My neighbor's son is dying of brain cancer after three tours of Iraq at the age of 30.



this map was on dick's desk in March of 2001.

[bdamomma]

112. I am sorry about your neighbors son.

and maybe that is what is pumping in dick's veins OIL.

[Citizen Kang]

118. Most likely...

he'll drown. As more and more fluid builds up in his lungs as the left ventricle simply continues to fail pumping oxygenated blood from the lungs to the rest of the body and it backs up and drowns him slowly.

Its not a good way to go. My uncle had it and he suffered in hospice for weeks.

I guess Karma is for real, Dick.

[droidamus2]

43. My only question is

What kind of microscope did they use?

[superconnected]

65. electron

I just hope they get a dna test because I don't believe the heart he has is even his. He probably reached in and pulled it out of one of his victims and had a whole lot of people restraining so he didn't eat it, so they could insert it into his chest.

[Bitwit1234]

44. Can you imagine how long

someone else would have passed away if they didn't have the access to the type of care this person has. I don't wish ill to anyone but IT really makes me angry when the republicans congratulate him on getting well when he is part of the cause of the mess we have in this country today.

But then he is a republican and the tea bags, the radicals and the CONservatives are all for him with his trillions he made off the back of the American people, while denying unemployment benefits to the very needy in this country. Although I hestitate to believe there is such a place, I can not help but wish every one of them including Ben Nelson rots forever in Hell.

[LongTomH]

45. The Devil needs to open up a whole new circle of Hell!

The Nixon White House crowd is getting old! Kissinger, Runsferatu, Cheney, et al.

Actually, I'm pretty much a Universalist myself. I frequently tell friends the only time I believe in Hell is when I'm driving (You need somewhere to consign that arrogant, tailgating prick in the SUV!!!!) The other time I want to believe in Hell is when I contemplate the horrors that pack of Neocon criminals has visited on humanity.
:grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr: :grr:

[sasquuatch55]

50. Paid for by Socialized Medicine!

nt

[Mad_Dem_X]

102. Amen! n/t

[Hulk]

46. Got my fingers crossed for you...big Dick

Don't keep Satan waiting.

[Hulk]

47. he has a heart??

Wow...who'd have thought so?

[jbfam4]

55. Bingo

We have a winner! I was waiting to see who would be the first one to say this. You won, Hulk.

[russspeakeasy]

48. And you're not done killing our kids yet..............

Burn in hell you waste of skin................

[Grassy Knoll]

49. Cheney's new heart.....

[mikelgb]

51. thanks for posting, was about to myself

[JuniperLea]

54. .

[jmowreader]

52. Ever seen Robocop 3?

In it there's a scene where the beautiful mad scientist had to rebuild Robocop because the Kanemitsu Corporation's rent-a-thugs shot him with a grenade launcher, and she needed a new artificial heart. One of the rebels got her one...she looked at it and started screaming. "You idiot! I said a Nissan! That's a Kanemitsu!"

Cheney got the Kanemitsu.

[Ian David]

53. So? n/t

[RainDog]

57. LVAD - VLAD the impaler

He also tortured people.

[drdtroit]

58. Didn't know you could implant a SOUL! n/t

[fascisthunter]

59. psychopath should live a long time in pain

[superconnected]

96. Actually, I think that may be happening.

I don't know why it hasn't deterred him from doing bad things to people and countries though.

[PlanetBev]

60. I'll tell you what pisses me off

65 is the upper limited to do heart transplants. They want to assure that younger people can get the hearts that are available. Let me guarantee you, Dick will be the exception. He'll buy one with his money and influence, leaving younger, more deserving people to die.

Will this evil never depart our planet? :mad:

[mnhtnbb]

63. As long as his money can buy life, Cheney will be a buyer.

[backscatter712]

64. He'll probably get a new heart in China.

They'll execute some poor schmuck just so they can harvest his heart for Dick.

[wilt the stilt]

67. Dick Cheney In Recovery After Major Heart Surgery

Source: Huffington Post

WASHINGTON — Former Vice President Dick Cheney disclosed Wednesday that he has undergone surgery to install a small pump to help his heart work, as the 69-year-old enters a new phase of what he called "increasing congestive heart failure."

"The operation went very well and I am now recuperating," a still-hospitalized Cheney said in a statement.

The kind of heart pump that Cheney received can be 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.

Read more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/14/dick-cheney-heart-surgery_n_646521.html

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I wish he had to deal with regular "insurance" also I will keep quiet because I was taught not to say bad things.

[Bitwit1234]

68. Congestive heart failure? That means he can go at any time.

But if he needs a transplant, he'll go to the top of the list. Wanta bet.

[Demeter]

73. I'm Worried that He Has head (or rather, heart) hunters Out Looking Right Now

Why else try to get DNA from every person on planet? Involuntary Organ harvesting, Cheney style.

[Sailing]

82. Yeah, he's got these guys on the case.

[Kringle]

94. drive carefully .nt

[superconnected]

74. Don't worry, his own heart rejects him, everyone elses will too.

[fascisthunter]

76. you mean he has entitlements?

[cadmium]

115. I bet he is on the transplant list. Ventricular

Assist Devices are commonly used to bridge failing heart while awaiting a transplant. That was my first thought. They have run out of gadgets -- so now he will need someone else's flesh.

[dsc]

69. The VA and Medicare would pay for one for my dad

he has opted not to, but they would pay.

[valerief]

70. He'll be pulling a Ken Lay soon. nt

[Xipe Totec]

71. Live long and fester, Dick. nt

[superconnected]

72. He's not dead yet, we can say bad things until he's dead, and helping 100 thousand Iraqis get killed

actually means he's not untouchable even after he's dead.

The only bad thing about all this is he may die of a heartattack instead of being hung for war crimes.

[stevedeshazer]

75. Must... control... myself... pressure... building... karma... explosion... imminent....

I'm just chillin' here, Dick Dog.

[rzemanfl]

77. My father died of congestive heart failure at age 57. Not a good

way to go. He didn't deserve it. Dick, well, I won't say bad things either.

[Aviation Pro]

80. But I will....

...die fucker, die.

[Po_d Mainiac]

88. .........

:toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast:

[Individualist]

116. I have CHF. People deserve compassion because of who they are, not because of the disease they have

[FarLeftFist]

78. I cannot catch a break

[peacetalksforall]

79. I hope he lives so we will get some truths before he dies. I would like to know how much money

he made selling nuclear bomb related technology, parts, plans, secrets - any part of it - with or without A Q Khan and others.

[oldtime dfl_er]

85. no chance

this dude ain't going to pull a Lee Atwater. He's as cold as an ice cube.

[bdamomma]

113. didn't Lee Atwater die of brain cancer and made a confession

on his death bed?

[penndragon69]

81. I'm so glade.

DICK, is enjoying his single payer, universal health care.
It's great for him but it's socialism for the rest of us.

BURN in HELL DICK !

[muntrv]

83. Dick has a heart? Who knew?

[Lil Missy]

84. Wish I had the remote control to his implant. n/t

[Grassy Knoll]

86. I think liz should donate her heart to her old man. n/t

[Ken Burch]

87. On the plus side, he got vital intel out of the anesthesiologist

n/t.

[Javaman]

105. How much did this cost him? And how much would it cost the average person?

I think we know those answers.

[demigoddess]

91. cheney can't buy his way into heaven, so he ain't going.

that is the only way he would get there.

[RamboLiberal]

93. Damn - I'm surprised at the size of that pump

Looks like a piece of plumbing.

Good job on Rachel with the Dr showing and explaining the device.

Cheney was sicker than he let on - nice of him to put himself a hearbeat from the presidency.

[skoalyman]

95. so they put thicker shielding around his black heart

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

100. The tiniest bilge pump I've ever seen ...

but an unfortunate waste of resources.

:hi:

[WinkyDink]

104. There was a "Law & Order" ep where the heart device was refurbished, and wore out fast.

Just sayin'.

[skip fox]

107. "A Device." (Brief poem for Dick Cheney on receiving another mechanical addition)

A Device, for Dick Cheney

A device inside of a machine
Inside of nightmare horrors
Ripe with the fears and screams
Of unspeakalbe, unpardonable tortures,

Spoked with spines of mal-intent
And laced with desert's ice
Where all but despair is spent,
A machine, inside: another device.

[lanlady]

117. who paid for it?

The device costs $100,000. I have this awful thinking that you and I paid for it.