It's About Liberty: A Conservative Forum
Topics => Politics/Legislation/Elections => Topic started by: LadyVirginia on January 23, 2012, 11:59:36 AM
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Looking for a link to a story. I'm watching the press conference right now streaming over Fox news.
He's only 52.
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Hopefully they got to him in time. Stroke treatment medicine has made remarkable advances, but everything depends on the timeliness of that medicine's delivery. IIRC there' basically a one-hour window when most or all of the debilitating after-effects of a stroke can be overcome by medicine.
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http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/23/doctors-confident-recovery-after-sen-mark-kirk-suffers-stroke/?test=latestnews (http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/01/23/doctors-confident-recovery-after-sen-mark-kirk-suffers-stroke/?test=latestnews)
It doesn't sound like a major stroke, so hopefully he'll recover fairly quickly.
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Carry aspirin at all times, when you think it's happening chew one... or two.
That 81# is a minimum average number, why pay more buy 325.
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His doc at the presser said there's about a 2-3 hour window in which treatment can reverse the effects. He didn't say if Kirk was in that window. Kirk had the stroke on the right side. His left arm and leg are not moving. The doc thinks the arm may be able to be rehabilitated but he's not confident about the leg. He says his cognitive function should be fine. Kirk is being sedated to relieved pressure on the brain and right now a 4 X 8 piece of his skull has been removed to do that.
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Nix the minor.
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Yikes!
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From Hawk's link: The 52-year-old Kirk checked himself into Lake Forest Hospital in Illinois on Saturday. He was transferred on Sunday to Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago, where tests showed that he had suffered an ischemic stroke.
Read this as, Lake Forest is a death trap. That hospital did nothing for him, he was
under observation. They probably didn't even give him an aspirin. If they had given
him proper tests and administered anti coagulants upon admission he probably would
have been transferred to a more appropriate medical facility intact or been released the
next day with the clot dissolved and in good health.
This is an object lesson, all medical facilities are not the same nor are doctors.
What do you call a physician who graduated last in his class? You call him doctor.
You must always exercise your good sense and hopefully have a loved one who
will do so if you are incapacitated. These people are just as fallible as anyone else
and must be "kept on the spot" else they practice statistical medicine.