Biden Discusses Aneurysms

By: Maria Gavrilovic
Topics: Joe Biden

(CBS)

From CBS News' Maria Gavrilovic:

(DUBLIN, Ohio) Joe Biden, who attended the memorial service for Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones today, talked about his own bout with aneurysms that nearly killed him 20 years ago. "When mine burst fortunately as described to me by the neurosurgeon it ricocheted off my skull instead of into my brain," Biden explained, "If it had been the other way around I'd be a…."

Biden seemed to be particularly affected by Tubbs Jones' death, because it was a stark reminder of what could have happened to him. "I know it sounds corny, it almost sounds maudlin, but you know here she was one day walking around just like I was the next day," he said adding, "I woke up four hours later on the floor with a hemorrhage. In her case the same thing happened only she never made it back."

Explaining the severity of aneurysms, Biden said that neurosurgeons can "either fix or they don't." "If they fix it it's fixed. If they don't they don't there's not much in between it's not like cancer or heart disease or something, but it was kinda poignant."

Obama attended the memorial service in Cleveland with Biden and the Clintons. "What struck me most about Stephanie was how, even after a decade in Congress, she was so utterly unaffected by the ways of Washington. She was still a home girl," Obama said at the service.

Both Obama and Biden spent time with Tubbs Jones nearly a month ago.

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by mrtutto August 31, 2008 1:56 PM EDT: At least Joe Biden will talk about his ,look at the other guy, not a PEEP. McCain bows under pressure for the Religious right and will pay for it big time. Palin is now taking a four week course in foreign relations, so that she can be prepared to meet with Putin if she has to. We thought that Palin was very lucky to be asked after the first date but it seems that McCain has a history of making fast, instinctive and sometimes risky decisions. "I make them as quickly as I can, quicker than the other fellow, if I can," McCain wrote, with his top adviser Mark Salter, in his 2002 book, "Worth the Fighting For." "Often my haste is a mistake, but I live with the consequences without complaint." YIKES..........; Reply to this comment