Former Vice President Dick Cheney is having elective back surgery at George Washington University Hospital.

Cheney spokeswoman Lucy Tutwiler says the surgery Thursday is to deal with lumbar spinal stenosis, a common cause of lower back pain in older adults.

Spinal stenosis is a narrowing of the spinal canal – the passage for the spinal cord – which in turn puts pressure on nerves, causing pain. Surgery is done to widen the passage and ease that pressure, typically by removing a bit of the vertebra.

Dr. Anthony Caputy, chairman of the hospital's neurosurgery department, is performing the operation.

Cheney is 68 years old. He has had four heart attacks.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/17/dick-cheney-undergoing-ba_n_289772.html

SOCIALIST!!

I thought maybe they were trying to grow one for him.

Gee, that's a shame.

The devil makes 'em sturdy, don't he?

most of us with the same problem would have to live in pain.

HYPOTHETICALLY, IF THERE WERE, IN FACT, DEATH PANELS, IN SOME CASES IT MIGHT MAKE SENSE TO THINK ABOUT USING THEM. On an unrelated note, Vice President of Hell Dick Cheney is headed to surgery today so that he might rid himself forever of his tragic back pain. It is somewhat of an experimental treatment, as this is an operation typically performed on human beings.

http://wonkette.com/tag/pt-illegal-aliens-getting-health-care/

Heh!

hope the anesthesiologist uses water boarding to put him under.

Does Dick Cheney have a spine?

He's really in for another transfusion of unicorn blood.

I will only say it will take him time to recover and during that he won't be around to mess with us.

I had back operation in lower back 9 years ago and there is a lot of pain and recovery time. And the older you are the harder it will be plus his heart...

x(

I hope he has an Iraqi as his doctor

I just had my spinal stenosis, among other problems, operated on. but that was caused by a drunk.

J/K of course.....kinda.

...hey, Shitstain, you can always call your buddy the fat bag 'o shit, Rushbo, for a stash of Oxycontin.

just a couple of deferrments.

those with insurance.

How 'bout we send him a nice big bouquet of dead roses??:evilgrin:

Justice is coming you Dick!

does anyone have a clue (without making a joke).

It keeps growing back.

Stop making the insufferable indestructable.