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Vice President Cheney releases statement announcing successful surgery

Statement from former Vice President Cheney

July 14, 2010

As many of you know, I have dealt with coronary artery disease for decades, suffering my first heart attack in 1978 at age 37. Over the years, excellent care from my doctors and advances in medicine and technology have allowed me to live a full and active life, for which I am very grateful.

A few weeks ago, it became clear that I was entering a new phase of the disease when I began to experience increasing congestive heart failure. After a series of recent tests and discussions with my doctors, I decided to take advantage of one of the new technologies available and have a Left Ventricular Assist Device (LVAD) implanted. The LVAD is a small implantable pump that improves heart function and will enable me to resume an active life.

Last week I underwent surgery at Inova Fairfax Heart and Vascular Institute and had an LVAD implanted. The operation went very well and I am now recuperating. I am grateful for the wonderful care that I have received over the years at George Washington University Hospital, and that I am currently receiving at Inova Fairfax Heart and Vascular Institute.

I also want to thank all of you who have included my family and me in your thoughts and prayers.

now that he's officially a cyborg, he'll probably be palin's running mate in '12

 

[MMike]

]palin's running mate in '12[/url]

Would he be allowed?

I still think Hillary and Bill should run as a team.....

 

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Would he be allowed?

you betcha

 

[narlus]

this fvcker is still drawing air, whereas people like Joe Strummer and Jack Rose couldn't beat the big one.

 

[jonKranked]

his transition to a fully cybernetic Darth Cheney will be a slow one

 

[Dartman]

It's amazing they can do surgery on something so small, so cold and so hard.

They just announced on the news that he now has no pulse. No heartbeat. Just continuous blood flow. Creepy.

 

[Snowflake]

Natural selection has been overruled.

Fack.

I always knew the man had no heart.

 

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A New Pumping Device Brings Hope for Cheney

unfortunately for lawyers w/in range, it's on a shotgun