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Offline Eupher

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Dick Cheney Receives Heart Transplant
« on: March 24, 2012, 10:25:37 PM »


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(CBS News) Former Vice President Dick Cheney received a heart transplant on Saturday, his office announced.

A statement from the former vice president's office said the 71-year-old is now recovering in the intensive care unit of Inova Fairfax Hospital in Falls Church, Va., outside Washington.

The statement said Cheney had been on the transplant list for 20 months and did not know the identity of the donor.

"Although the former vice president and his family do not know the identity of the donor, they will be forever grateful for this lifesaving gift," the statement read.

Cheney, who served as President George W. Bush's vice president from 2001 to 2009, has a long history of heart problems. He suffered his first heart attack at age 37 and his fifth in 2010. In 1988, he underwent quadruple bypass surgery and has had several other heart surgeries since then, including multiple angioplasties and the implantation of a pacemaker.

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Re: Dick Cheney Receives Heart Transplant
« Reply #1 on: March 24, 2012, 10:33:33 PM »
Prayers for Vice President Cheney and his family for a healthy recovery.

I came across a great PM Popular Science article about a continuous pump that is being used to assist sick or damaged hearts.  It's interesting and worth reading.

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No Pulse: How Doctors Reinvented The Human Heart

When he finally showed up eight months later, Frazier held a stethoscope to his chest and was stunned to hear no heartbeat at all. None. Even more-sensitive instruments would have found nothing resembling a pulse. The young man’s heart continued to flutter weakly, but it had effectively shut down. Although the HeartMate II had been designed to assist the heart, not replace it, in this case it seemed to be doing all the work: not just helping the left ventricle push oxygenated blood to the body, but pushing the blood hard enough to flow through the body, then back through the useless heart to the lungs, through the useless heart again, and into the pump to complete the loop and begin the process all over again. The reason the young man had never come back for follow-up, he told Frazier, was that he’d felt perfectly fine.

Thoratec won FDA approval of the HeartMate II in 2008, and surgeons have now installed continuous-flow LVADs alongside the hearts of some 11,000 people worldwide (among them former vice president Dick Cheney).
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Re: Dick Cheney Receives Heart Transplant
« Reply #2 on: March 24, 2012, 11:05:19 PM »
Prayers for Vice President Cheney and his family for a healthy recovery.

Agreed.

This is the way our country takes care of our President, our VP, members of congress and the SCOTUS, all past and present.
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Re: Dick Cheney Receives Heart Transplant
« Reply #3 on: March 25, 2012, 12:31:16 AM »
I've always liked Dick Cheney.  I hope he makes a full recovery.  Sending my prayers.
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Re: Dick Cheney Receives Heart Transplant
« Reply #4 on: March 25, 2012, 10:33:30 AM »
cue the hateful comments from the DUmmies in 3...2...1...
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Re: Dick Cheney Receives Heart Transplant
« Reply #5 on: March 25, 2012, 10:54:17 AM »
Prayers for Mr Cheneys full and complete recovery...Amazing how far medicine has come.
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Re: Dick Cheney Receives Heart Transplant
« Reply #6 on: March 25, 2012, 11:03:08 AM »
My dad had a close friend that had a heart transplant way back in the early 80's. He had an excellent 12 years on it and then another 2 or 3. The last 2 or 3 weren't bad. With the advance in that type thing now, Dick may be a thorn in DUmmie sides for years to come.

Suck that lemon DUmmies..... :lmao:
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Re: Dick Cheney Receives Heart Transplant
« Reply #7 on: March 25, 2012, 02:44:12 PM »
Quote from: JohnnyReb on March 25, 2012, 11:03:08 AM
My dad had a close friend that had a heart transplant way back in the early 80's. He had an excellent 12 years on it and then another 2 or 3. The last 2 or 3 weren't bad. With the advance in that type thing now, Dick may be a thorn in DUmmie sides for years to come.

Suck that lemon DUmmies..... :lmao:


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Re: Dick Cheney Receives Heart Transplant
« Reply #8 on: March 25, 2012, 03:01:37 PM »
I wished Dick Cheney was President. He was a good speaker for one.
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Re: Dick Cheney Receives Heart Transplant
« Reply #9 on: March 25, 2012, 03:09:19 PM »
Quote from: Ptarmigan on March 25, 2012, 03:01:37 PM
I wished Dick Cheney was President. He was a good speaker for one.
He is a good American.  The left has so much hate for him he must be good for America.
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Re: Dick Cheney Receives Heart Transplant
« Reply #10 on: March 25, 2012, 03:20:13 PM »
Quote from: DLR Pyro on March 25, 2012, 03:09:19 PM
He is a good American.  The left has so much hate for him he must be good for America.

There's a saying along the lines of, "Tell me who a man's enemies are, and I'll tell you what kind of man he is."  For VP Cheney to have the Left frothing mad at him every day . . . well, he's got to be a heluva American.  Prayers for his recovery, and continued good health.
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Re: Dick Cheney Receives Heart Transplant
« Reply #11 on: March 25, 2012, 04:33:58 PM »
My prayers go out to Mr. Cheney and his family. We sure could use his guidance these days.
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Re: Dick Cheney Receives Heart Transplant
« Reply #12 on: March 25, 2012, 06:00:54 PM »
I am glad to read that Mr. Cheney received a heart transplant, both for the fact that Cheney's life will be fuller and the fact that it makes all of the Affordable Health Care Act (AKA: Obamacare) advocates flying-mouse feces insane  :banghead: So delicious!

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Re: Dick Cheney Receives Heart Transplant
« Reply #13 on: March 25, 2012, 06:57:58 PM »
Quote from: trentamj on March 25, 2012, 06:00:54 PM
I am glad to read that Mr. Cheney received a heart transplant, both for the fact that Cheney's life will be fuller and the fact that it makes all of the Affordable Health Care Act (AKA: Obamacare) advocates flying-mouse feces insane  :banghead: So delicious!

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Re: Dick Cheney Receives Heart Transplant
« Reply #14 on: March 25, 2012, 09:06:19 PM »
My thoughts and prayers are with Mr. Cheney on his recovery. He is such a classy man.
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« Reply #15 on: March 26, 2012, 04:49:30 PM »
I hope he has a full recovery.... and ignore the lefts evil about this.
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Re: Dick Cheney Receives Heart Transplant
« Reply #16 on: March 26, 2012, 05:02:45 PM »
At age 71, Obamacare would have denied to cover it.
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Re: Dick Cheney Receives Heart Transplant
« Reply #17 on: March 26, 2012, 08:05:18 PM »
Quote from: rich_t on March 26, 2012, 05:02:45 PM
At age 71, Obamacare would have denied to cover it.
Those are the death panels owebuma denied ever having. If you told the lib/dem/socialists this is Cheney's 3rd transplant, they would have a cow.
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Re: Dick Cheney Receives Heart Transplant
« Reply #18 on: April 03, 2012, 12:47:48 PM »
Liz Cheney tweeted this photo, VP Cheney looks awesome!

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Re: Dick Cheney Receives Heart Transplant
« Reply #19 on: April 03, 2012, 12:53:53 PM »
I heard that he was out of the hospital.  To the lurking DUmmies, it was wealth worth the "million dollars" for his new heart. :tongue:
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« Reply #20 on: April 03, 2012, 12:54:48 PM »
Yep, she said he's home.
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Re: Dick Cheney Receives Heart Transplant
« Reply #21 on: April 03, 2012, 02:23:06 PM »
Mr. Cheney being home is great news. He is a trooper.
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Re: Dick Cheney Receives Heart Transplant
« Reply #22 on: April 03, 2012, 03:15:25 PM »
Quote from: Kyle Ricky on April 03, 2012, 02:23:06 PM
Mr. Cheney being home is great news. He is a trooper.
It is great news. Cheney has done more than enough for his country, and his countrymen.
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Re: Dick Cheney Receives Heart Transplant
« Reply #23 on: April 03, 2012, 03:30:42 PM »
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:rotf:  Forget it, DUmbasses!!!  Darth Cheney is still an irresistible force for crushing all that is stupid and leftist in the universe. :rotf: :yahoo:
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« Reply #24 on: April 03, 2012, 03:38:06 PM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on April 03, 2012, 03:30:42 PM

:rotf:  Forget it, DUmbasses!!!  Darth Cheney is still an irresistible force for crushing all that is stupid and leftist in the universe. :rotf: :yahoo:

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