Good News For Cheney In Medical Checkup

(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.

[xxunknown]

oh, thank God. (that was sarcasm)

[whiskyrocker]

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

[mountainzen]

Darth Vader lives! Egad!

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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.

[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

[anecdote1]

so
Posted by jd2408 at 12:32 AM

LOL.

[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..."