Good News For Cheney In Medical Checkup

Vice President's Heart Called Stable By Doctors At Annual Exam

(AP)  Vice President Dick Cheney got good news Saturday from doctors who said his heart was beating normally for a 67-year-old man who has had four heart attacks.

"The vice president's cardiac status remains stable," Cheney press secretary Megan Mitchell said after the nearly two-hour annual checkup.

Doctors at George Washington University Hospital gave Cheney a physical exam and an electrocardiogram, which is a test that detects and records the electrical activity of the heart, Mitchell said.

They also took images of stents that were placed in arteries in the back of his knees when Cheney underwent surgery in September 2005 to repair an arterial aneurysm.

Last year's checkup was not as good for the vice president, who has had quadruple bypass surgery and two artery-clearing angioplasties.

At that exam on June 8, 2007, doctors found no new blockages in his heart from the year before, but said he needed a new battery for a special pacemaker he has in his chest. The vice president had surgery the following month to replace the implanted device that monitors his heartbeat.

Then, in November 2007, doctors had to administer an electrical shock to Cheney's heart to restore it to a normal rhythm. The irregular heartbeat was determined to be atrial fibrillation, an abnormal rhythm involving the upper chambers of the heart. White House doctors discovered the irregular heartbeat when they were treating him for a lingering cough from a cold.

At this most recent checkup, doctors found that Cheney had not experienced any recurrence of atrial fibrillation. They also found that the special pacemaker had neither detected nor treated any arrhythmia, a problem with the heartbeat's speed or rhythm.

After his exam, Cheney returned to the vice president's residence at the Naval Observatory and resumed his normal schedule.

[yongamerica]

This says something about those Duracell batteries; they keep him going...

[element51]

What a shocker! I didn''t know Dickey had a heart. I can''t stand the man but I''m glad his health is good. To bad that many folks out here don''t have access to medical care like he does. When asked about that his response was, "so".

[slim1h2o]

Cheneys health is reportedly good, That''s too bad.

[stn_sage]

Good news for him, bad news for the nation!

The exam takes longer than it does for most people, because the cat scan equipment has difficulty locating his heart, it''s so microscopically small!

Which, probably explains his bitter, callous, disregard for life and his fellow human beings!

[deacon20081]

Bummer...nuff said

[cdfoxtrot1]

"Vice President *** Cheney got good news Saturday from doctors who said his heart was beating normally for a 67-year-old man who has had four heart attacks."

Cheney has a heart???

[cj7jeepstir]

I''ll join the chorus. What a shame. Good news for Cheney is sad news for the rest of the human race.

[mcvet]

***! Well at least when he goes on trial for War Crimes he can''t use his Heart as a hedge! This is the ONLY man I have seen NOT behind bars that actually LOOKS evil..

[anecdote1]

I didn''t think he had a heart....

[anecdote1]

So he can still go hunting with his friends? er...does he still have any?

[anecdote1]

Sure hope Dr. Biggdigits spent an extra hour on Cheney''s prostate exam....

[keithle1]

The man that no one in the press could ever pin down to get a question answered. A slippery snake.

[barbaram99]

McVet,yer right,the bushes are evil.

[jd2408]

Nice that he has good health care coverage.

[sheila2u-2009]

Popular man !!!!

[noaanhc]

Richard Bruce Chaney is the most dangerous man
in America.

I shudder to think if President Bush had died in office Cheney would now be President.Say anything you want about our worst President in history,Lets hope he stays alive until noon on January 20,2009.

As for putting him on trial,Cheney will never spend one day in court or even one day in a jail cell as long as he remains in the US and doesnt do any international travel.The international wars crimes tribunal can issue all the arrest warrants they want
Cheney simply avoids arrest and a trial for the remainder of his life by staying in the US.

[jd2408]

so

[sgtrds10-4]

Here''s hoping his pacemaker leaks battery acid all over that fat rock in his chest that passes for a heart. His death will cause spontaneous celebrations around the world. I know I''ll throw a party.

[rhs648]

It seems implausable that anyone with serious health problems would wish ill will on anyone else. Those who have had heart attacks, strokes, or cancer probably knows what this means. One never knows what type of health problems might develop on a daily basis. Disagreeing is fine. Wishing death or sickness on another person is cruel and inhuman.

[neoconrcrazy]

let''s hope he lives to 120 -

and each year faces legal actions against him -

and when he dies, he says

"rosebuds, they promised me rosebuds..."

[anecdote1]

so
Posted by jd2408 at 12:32 AM

LOL.

[tuppman]

Good news for Cheney is not good news for the rest of the country. Good news for the rest of the country would be that Bush and Cheney have both been impeached and sentanced to twenty years to life

[keithle1]

I wonder how many people will have nice things to say about the eight years of the Bush/Cheney admin on Jan 20, 2009, when the new President is inaugurated.

[rhs648]

Good news for Cheney is not good news for the rest of the country. Good news for the rest of the country would be that Bush and Cheney have both been impeached and sentanced to twenty years to life

Posted by tuppman

First you need to find crimes. So far, there haven''t been any.

[barbaram99]

keithle, I am a Mainer and when I worked in Portland ME. bush in the 70s got a DUI and he was 40 when he was visting ME. A drunk driver he was. We have to get a better president that earnt the vote.

[Gary Kempf]

(AP) Vice President *** Cheney got good news Saturday from doctors who said his heart was beating normally for a 67-year-old man who has had four heart attacks.

"The vice president''s cardiac status remains stable," Cheney press secretary Megan Mitchell said after the nearly two-hour annual checkup.

Thats to bad.

[mountainzen]

Darth Vader lives! Egad!

[whiskyrocker]

He''s almost has had as many heart attacks as deferments.

[xxunknown]

oh, thank God. (that was sarcasm)