Cheney blood clot

[sportschick]

Doctors found a blood clot in Cheney's leg, or so says CNN. He's apparently back at work.

Discuss.

I'll try to find a link.

 

[Boom_70]

Doctors found a blood clot in Cheney's leg, or so says CNN. He's apparently back at work.

Discuss.

I'll try to find a link.

We need to see the MRI before we can render an opinion.

 

[zeke12]

Boom, hadn't you better get cracking on an official SportsJournalists.com letter of condolence?

Forge my signature.

 

[sportschick]

http://www.reuters.com/article/politicsNews/idUSN0530750720070305

 

[andyouare?]

Don't you have to have blood running through your veins to get a blood clot?

 

[Bob Cook]

Perhaps this is why a guy with a history of circulatory problems doesn't fly around the world more often.

 

[Killick]

Never cheered for a clot before. Oh well, there's always a first time.

 

[alleyallen]

Can we get DocTalk in here to expound upon the potential consequences, healing time, etc.? I for one don't wish on Cheney, although as a person I find him repugnant. Bad Karma, folks. Bad Karma.

 

[DocTalk]

Not so long ago, patients with blood clots in their legs would require hospitalization for intravenous heparin to thin their blood as they were transitioned to another blood thinner (warfarin). It takes a few days for warfarin to get to therapeutic levels, so the immediate thinning of heparin was required. Newer medications like Lovenox are injected subcutaneously, like insulin, and can be taken twice a day at home to immediately thin the blood, while the warfarin is starting to take effect.

The major complication of a leg blood clot is the potenital for it to break loose and travel to the lung causing a pulmonary embolus, which can be deadly.

 

[alleyallen]

Not so long ago, patients with blood clots in their legs would require hospitalization for intravenous heparin to thin their blood as they were transitioned to another blood thinner (warfarin). It takes a few days for warfarin to get to therapeutic levels, so the immediate thinning of heparin was required. Newer medications like Lovenox are injected subcutaneously, like insulin, and can be taken twice a day at home to immediately thin the blood, while the warfarin is starting to take effect.

The major complication of a leg blood clot is the potenital for it to break loose and travel to the lung causing a pulmonary embolus, which can be deadly.

Thank you Doc.

And everyone else...remember....

Karma is a *****.

 

[Killick]

CLOT! CLOT! CLOT!
I keed, I keed. Well, almost.

 

[goalmouth]

**** Cheney -- the Keith Richards of politics.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

Send him to Walter Reed.

 

[Mystery_Meat]

Did anyone cheer or make fun of Clinton when he went in for his bypass? I legitimately don't remember and it was some 30 months ago, so any trace of it is long since vaporized.

I guess my point is, is making light of a man's illness going to compromise your ability to be offended when Ann Coulter unhinges her jaw to projective vomit her latest thoughts? Seems like it should, for those of us paying attention.

 

[Boom_70]

Did anyone cheer or make fun of Clinton when he went in for his bypass? I legitimately don't remember and it was some 30 months ago, so any trace of it is long since vaporized.

I guess my point is, is making light of a man's illness going to compromise your ability to be offended when Ann Coulter unhinges her jaw to projective vomit her latest thoughts? Seems like it should, for those of us paying attention.

no - moddy even applauded us for showing proper restraint

 

[sportschick]

Did anyone cheer or make fun of Clinton when he went in for his bypass? I legitimately don't remember and it was some 30 months ago, so any trace of it is long since vaporized.

I guess my point is, is making light of a man's illness going to compromise your ability to be offended when Ann Coulter unhinges her jaw to projective vomit her latest thoughts? Seems like it should, for those of us paying attention.

I did not mock him, and I sincerely hope he's OK.

 

[Ben_Hecht]

If Walter Reed's good enough for our soldiers unlucky enough to take the worst of it in battle . . .

 

[Boomer7]

Four heart attacks, one half-assed assassination attempt, and now DVT. Cheney is like Rulon Gardner, albeit without the two Olympic medals ... and a conscience.

 

[Bob Cook]

Four heart attacks, one half-assed assassination attempt, and now DVT. Cheney is like Rulon Gardner, albeit without the two Olympic medals ... and a conscience.

Aren't both of them from Wyoming? Hmmmmm...

 

[jgmacg]

Not so long ago, patients with blood clots in their legs would require hospitalization for intravenous heparin to thin their blood as they were transitioned to another blood thinner (warfarin). It takes a few days for warfarin to get to therapeutic levels, so the immediate thinning of heparin was required. Newer medications like Lovenox are injected subcutaneously, like insulin, and can be taken twice a day at home to immediately thin the blood, while the warfarin is starting to take effect.

The major complication of a leg blood clot is the potenital for it to break loose and travel to the lung causing a pulmonary embolus, which can be deadly.

Cheney?

Warfarin? Lovenox?

Are you pullin' our legs, Doc?