with taxpayer $$$'s

Single payer for gov't officials but none for us!

he got a "less than perfect" kidney. I was amazed...he seems to be doing fine now!

Don't know about hearts.

medicine, he died of cancer at the age of 53. It's the anti-rejection medicine that is so dangerous because the drugs damage the immune system to the point that the patient is more susceptible to other diseases.

It wasn't long after the transplant surgery that a bump began to grow on his face, originating from his carotid artery -- very similar in appearance & position to the bump on John McCain's face.

I read somewhere that new anti-rejection drugs are being developed that will be less destructive to the immune system; I sure hope so!

Over someone else probably.

that the dick stole while in office

so I think you might be mistaken. Anyway, my contribution is that Cheney had a heart implanted, not having been born with one.

thing years ago.

Surgeons implanted some sort of system to his heart. The technique was shown on Rachel Maddow. It quite literally looks like household plumbing attached to the heart. IF I remember correctly the system is powered from an exterior source and due to that fact, Tricky Dick Cheney would have no heart beat (Did he even have one to begin with?).

The doctor said that the procedure was essentially the end game for Dick Cheney. If his heart had anymore problems, options for treatment were nil given his age.

One poster on this thread made a good point. If he is over 70 years old, why is he getting a transplant? Even in countries with socialized medicine, patients over a certain age do not organ transplants.

Hmmm.

for Left Ventricular Assist Device -- it basically takes over the left ventricle's function of pumping the freshly oxygenated blood to the rest of the body.

I've had left ventricle problems for years -- not enough to require an LVAD. However, I will be having mitral valve surgery sometime in the next few months.

in case he should blow a fuse or his battery should die out. He is Bionic Man! This is one evil dude. War Criminal extraordinaire, goes unpunished.

Cheney tied to cash theft and possible murder in Iraq
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According to an informed source, Dick Cheney, while vice president, amassed a fortune in cash stolen by U.S. occupation forces in Iraq from Saddam Hussein and some of his leading officials and advisers.


http://waronyou.com/forums/index.php?topic=9956.0;wap2

the last one was pure evil.

Something about being unable to take a bath because he had electrical wire sticking out of his back, attached to some power supply to keep his ticker going. That's bad.

Maby this one will make him confess to all of his crimes.

They installed something just long enough to get him to a courtroom in the Hague.

Shouldn't donor organs go to people who are more likely to survive a long time after the surgery?

....Kind of like the evil witch does on ABC's Sunday "Once Upon a Time"....

. . .to get this heart?

Someone younger than him might have not been compatible with the heart he got. And they also go by location. If he was physically located nearer to the available heart than a younger person who was much farther away, sometimes established policy gives the heart to the patient who is closer.

His waiting time was more than 20 months. The average waiting time for a heart is six months to three years. So based upon his waiting time it looks like he didn't get any special treatment. He might have got special treatment in other ways that we don't know about of course. And he has better health insurance and more resources than most of us do. But then again in most cases Medicaid and Medicare will pay for transplants. They tried to change Medcaid policy toward transplants in Arizona but their GOP governor was forced to back off from that.

http://www.cpmc.org/advanced/heart/patients/topics/transplant.html

thanks

The rules for organ transplants must be uniform and not shortcutted for anybody.

to a heartless bastard? This is just the kind of story that makes me NOT want to be an organ donor.

and you've got a Hammond B3 please advise.

Organ donor indeed!

that I've got friends in Dayton who had a B3 in their living room with a Leslie but not the correct stool / seat. My friends sister collects antiques and she went off to an estate sale on a Sunday afternoon while I was over your side. She got back late afternoon with a big smile on her face carrying an immaculate seat which she'd bought for $45.

But that wasn't the only thing she'd bought. When the sale had finished she'd wandered off into barn and had already enquired what would happened to stuff not sold. The answer was it would be cleared as trash. In the corner of the barn was something covered with linen and sure enough it was a B3 - mint ! They let her have it for $20 to save loading it up as scrap.

So you will have to find that Hammond elsewhere. I do have a cute little harmonica though.

nt

I am sure there would be a good match there.

I wish him a long, long, long life....

I hope he lives long enough to bury his children.

that the heart be taken from either a hyena or jackal. Extra points if the heart is taken from a carcass being eaten by either a hyena or jackal.

Seems fitting.

enough to meet his end in prison.

has been on the transplant list for more than 20 months.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/03/24/us/politics/ap-us-cheney-heart-surgery.html?hp

what a waste of a perfectly good heart. when will america stop being so wasteful?

Inquiring minds want to know!

Did he finally quit smoking?

They refuse liver transplants to alcoholics who have not maintained sobriety. I wonder if they refuse heart transplant to unrepentant smokers.

Doesn't hurt enough, and I'm sure he's got great drugs, but it hurts.

vaguely resembling a heart. It will be seen as a foreign object.

That pretty much sums it up.

that Cheney has such great federal health insurance and it covers such an expensive operation! Now why in the world do the repubs. not want the rest of us to have the same?

Otherwise healthy, but laid off, with a family and no health insurance.

I wonder how all of those people are doing today.

another chance to thank him for not murdering my Son.

I hope he never gets out of the hospital alive. I hope he suffers and suffers and suffers and then dies. Fuck him, he doesn't deserve a second chance at life.

of the old Doonesbury episode, where the heart of a liberal is transplanted into the body of a conservative, who then becomes a liberal himself! His wife sobs, "I was warned that he might be politically impaired for the rest of his life - but a (SOB!) Democrat!"

I know that's not how the heart actually works, but it would be nice if that happened with Cheney.

...so I'm stunned he was fast tracked for a heart.

With his age and risk factors such as stress and former smoker, I'm stunned as I imagine he was cynically leapfrogged past some more appropriate recipients.

Bastard deserves a trial and a prison cell, not a transplant.

when there are younger and more viable candidates waiting. Getting Trayvon's heart is exactly what that ass hole would do with out hesitation. He probably used the CIA to find a good match and then put out a hit on the poor kid to one of his obvious minnions. Sorry if I have offended you, but I really don't give a shit. Dick has offended me, and I wouldn't put anything past him. He probably didn't even need surgery, just fucking swallowed it, vampire that he is.

D_F

PB

What a waste.

I Think Mrs. DICK mentioned it in an interview.

There are far more people deserving of a good heart than Chaney.

took on the personality of the organ donor. So maybe there's hope for Cheney.

will wither and rot inside his DEMONIC, hate filled carcass.

You don't give blood to rotting, decaying road kill, you scrap it off the road and dump
it in the trash.

May this new heart reject him.....

Because only a wizard can keep that man going.

Fuck knows we're still paying for them.

Well now, what is this story really about? A man with a Heart? or a Robot who never had a Heart. I alway thought that this man has been in the hospital too many times for the tinkering of heart that does not exist. A normal person would have been dead by now! Is it too far fetched to think, that we might be under the control of Extraterrestrials ... Beings, like a Dick Cheney who are really not from, or of this earth ... but from another dimension here to destroy this earth. Oil exploitation, Unjust wars, Lying, shooting his buddy without remorse, the scooter libby sacrificed etc etc. Many of us would be in prison just for thinking about any of this, if caught in association with such crimes against humanity.

be it because hes wealthy and or well connected?

Cheney waited for more than 20 months so he falls within that time window.

http://www.cpmc.org/advanced/heart/patients/topics/transplant.html

Hopefully the new heart will work better than the last one in more ways than one

Former Vice President Cheney received a heart transplant earlier today but the heart has begun to show signs of rejection.

The heart itself was quoted as stating "that it had expected to be transplanted into an individual who had previously had a heart" and was surprised to find itself placed into a heartless individual.

You can be sure of that.

long enough to stand trial for the war crimes now.

if the surgeon didnt show up to the operation because he had "other priorities."

Tissue matching would have only allowed a transplant from a like source... A normal heart would reject Cheney.

you can run...draw it out a few more years with surgery....but theres a special place at the dinner table in hell next to hitler, attilla the hun and nero.....

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Whose heart did he steal?

in Arizona. I hear they deny people hearts there. And all these years he's lived without one? Fucker. Bastard.




Sorry--I'm not feeling very charitable right now. This is just another nightmare from those bastards stepping on the rest of us again.

What would you say the chances of one of us peons getting a new pump if we were 71-y-o would be? Zip?

Cheney should be in Leavenworth with along with Robert Bales. Throw George Zimmerman in the same cell and we will hit the trifecta.

nt

I love bets that I'm guaranteed to win.
While not many heart transplants go to folks in their 70s, there is no formal cut off and of the 2000 plus heart transplants last year, 330 plus went to folk 65 and over (which means I'm pretty sure the number aged seventy or higher is more than "zero&quot .

he and his entire blood-sucking family should be in federal prison.

to replace the original?

On the other hand, maybe he has awoken a new man who will do penance for his crimes against humanity.

LOL