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General Category => Midterm Elections 2022 => Topic started by: mountaineer on May 16, 2022, 12:05:52 am
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BREAKING: PA Dem candidate for Senate John Fetterman suffers blood clot and stroke, remains hospitalized, vows to stay in race
John Fetterman is the frontrunner in the Democrat race for Senate in Pennsylvania. He faces a contentious slate of GOP candidates. He remains hospitalized at the time of publication.
May 15, 2022 5:21 PM EST
The Post Millennial
Libby EmmonsLt. Governor John Fetterman, Democrat candidate for US Senate in Pennsylvania, suffered a stroke on Friday and was rushed to the hospital, where he has remained through the weekend. He has said that despite the stroke, he will be staying in the Senate race. He remains hospitalized at the time of publication.
Fetterman posted to Twitter, alerting constituents as to his condition. He reported that he wasn't feeling well, and was content to ignore it, but that his wife Gisele insisted that he get checked out. ...
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Poor doper caveman.
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Alex Berenson comments:
Today's least shocking story: Fat vaccinated cannabis advocate has stroke ...
For those of you wondering why cannabis matters in this story, there’s now strong evidence it can cause heart attacks and cardiovascular disease. ...
more at Berenson's substack (https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/todays-least-shocking-story-fat-vaccinated/comments?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0MzkxOTE2NCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NTUwNzYxNTUsIl8iOiJjeDMvMSIsImlhdCI6MTY1MjY1OTgxOSwiZXhwIjoxNjUyNjYzNDE5LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzYzMDgwIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9._c1ljEJUYKgTV89UieEQSq41dvYvNzXaZvZ5LSgCggA&s=r).
Story on heart attack risk being linked to weed is at NBC News HERE (https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/frequent-marijuana-smoking-risk-heart-attack-rcna26670).
Of course, being a good leftist, you can bet the caveman is superdoopercovidvaxxed, too. That's a likely prevailing factor in developing blood clots or having a stroke. :pondering:
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Alex Berenson comments:more at Berenson's substack (https://alexberenson.substack.com/p/todays-least-shocking-story-fat-vaccinated/comments?token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjo0MzkxOTE2NCwicG9zdF9pZCI6NTUwNzYxNTUsIl8iOiJjeDMvMSIsImlhdCI6MTY1MjY1OTgxOSwiZXhwIjoxNjUyNjYzNDE5LCJpc3MiOiJwdWItMzYzMDgwIiwic3ViIjoicG9zdC1yZWFjdGlvbiJ9._c1ljEJUYKgTV89UieEQSq41dvYvNzXaZvZ5LSgCggA&s=r).
Story on heart attack risk being linked to weed is at NBC News HERE (https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/frequent-marijuana-smoking-risk-heart-attack-rcna26670).
Of course, being a good leftist, you can bet the caveman is superdoopercovidvaxxed, too. That's a likely prevailing factor in developing blood clots or having a stroke. :pondering:
Multiple comorbidities... :whistle:
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candidate for Senate John Fetterman suffers blood clot and stroke......if he wins he will fit right right in.
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Fat, baked and stupid is no way to go through life.
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Isn't this an interesting coincidence?
Breaking911
@Breaking911
JUST IN: Maryland Senator Chris Van Hollen (D) hospitalized after suffering ‘minor stroke’
11:15 PM · May 15, 2022·
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As Voters Head to the Polls in Pennsylvania, Leading Democratic Senate Candidate Is Getting a Pacemaker
Leah Barkoukis
Posted: May 17, 2022 3:45 PM
Pennsylvania Lt. Governor John Fetterman will have surgery on Tuesday—the day voters head to the polls—to receive a pacemaker, his campaign said in a statement. The announcement comes after the Democratic Senate candidate said Sunday he was recovering from a stroke that “was caused by a clot from my heart being in an A-fib rhythm for too long."
According to his doctors, he suffered no cognitive damage [who could tell?] and is expected to make a full recovery. ...
More at TownHall (https://townhall.com/tipsheet/leahbarkoukis/2022/05/17/john-fetterman-pacemaker-n2607394)
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So easy, a caveman could do it.
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Jack Posobiec
@JackPosobiec
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3:08 PM · May 17, 2022 Twitter for iPhone
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Does anyone know how a pacemaker (to speed up the heart) helps control the too rapid heartbeat in A-fib?
Thanks in advance.
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ABC News just declared Fetterman the winner of the PA Dem Senate Primary election, defeating Lamb.
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ABC News just declared Fetterman the winner of the PA Dem Senate Primary election, defeating Lamb.
Fat Pothead Fetterman barely had to show up, apparently. Lamb gave this one away, in what is perceived as the worst campaign ever:Published May 19, 2022 1:45pm EDT
Conor Lamb paid brother nearly $100K from disastrous Pennsylvania Senate campaign
Lamb previously paid his brother $122,000 from his House campaign
Joe Schoffstall
Democratic Rep. Conor Lamb doled out nearly $100,000 in campaign cash to his brother to help lead his failed Pennsylvania Senate effort that a left-leaning strategist called "one of the worst campaigns" they've ever seen.
Lamb, a favorite among the liberal establishment in Washington, D.C., was soundly defeated by more than 30 points in Tuesday's Democratic primary by Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman, a left-wing firebrand.
But while Lamb may have lost big in the primary, his brother came out on top: Coleman Lamb pocketed $94,000 from the Connor Lamb for Senate campaign as of mid-April to act as a senior communications advisor, a review of Federal Election Commission records shows. ...
FOX News (https://www.foxnews.com/politics/pennsylvania-senate-campaign-conor-lamb-paid-brother-100k?intcmp=tw_fnc)
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Does anyone know how a pacemaker (to speed up the heart) helps control the too rapid heartbeat in A-fib?
Thanks in advance.
It doesn't control a rapid heartrate but it can help if the heartrate drops too low, which sometimes can happen. In any case, I suspect the "defibrillator" part of the device is what they're really using it for, but they don't want to come out and say that.
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He'll deliver a strong showing, even if he dies before November. Dems love electing dead people like Mel Carnahan.
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It doesn't control a rapid heartrate but it can help if the heartrate drops too low, which sometimes can happen. In any case, I suspect the "defibrillator" part of the device is what they're really using it for, but they don't want to come out and say that.
In some cases, pacemakers have a program to lengthen the PVARP after PMT detection to potentially stop the tachycardia. Alternatively, prevention of one ventricular paced beat can also stop the tachycardia. Some pacemakers use this algorithm.Apr 15, 2022
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Does anyone know how a pacemaker (to speed up the heart) helps control the too rapid heartbeat in A-fib?
Thanks in advance.
Electrical imposition of sinus rhythm
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Is John Fetterman Okay?
By Dan McLaughlin
May 27, 2022 10:57 AM
John Fetterman, the Democrats’ Senate candidate in Pennsylvania, suffered a stroke just days before the primary election, which he won running away by 32 points over Conor Lamb, 58.6 percent to 26.3 percent. We were assured that he’d be fine, it was not a big deal. He’s been recuperating, and is not back to the trail yet. But was the stroke more serious than his campaign let on?
With control of the Senate potentially hinging on this race and many pundits enthusing about the towering (6’8″) Fetterman as a model for his party, Gina Kolata and Katie Glueck of the New York Times and Colby Itkowitz, Paul Kane, and Ariana Eunjung Cha of the Washington Post each have reports gingerly raising the question of exactly how bad Fetterman’s health issues are. Both reports noted a lack of cooperation from Fetterman’s campaign, and the Times also questioned the veracity of what the campaign and Fetterman’s wife were saying publicly. The Times, on Fetterman’s condition: Specialists in stroke, heart disease and electrophysiology said that some of the campaign’s public statements do not offer a sufficient explanation for Mr. Fetterman’s described diagnosis or the treatment they say he has received. . . . Medical specialists asked questions about Mr. Fetterman’s treatment with a defibrillator. They say it would make sense only if he has a different condition that puts him at risk of sudden death, like cardiomyopathy — a weakened heart muscle. . . . Thrombectomy, the method likely used to remove the clot, also indicates that Mr. Fetterman experienced more than a tiny stroke, although prompt treatment may have averted damage and saved his brain…
Dr. Elaine Wan, an associate professor of medicine in cardiology and cardiac electrophysiology at Columbia University Medical Center…was less sanguine . . . about Mr. Fetterman. “He is at risk for sudden cardiac death,” she said. “For someone on the campaign trail that might raise concerns.”
Rest of article at National Review (https://www.nationalreview.com/corner/is-john-fetterman-okay/)
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Caveman say, "Me okay."
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Inside John Fetterman’s changing health scare story
The Pa. Senate candidate’s heart condition is much more serious than first revealed, raising concerns among some Democrats
By Michael Scherer and Hannah Knowles
June 4, 2022 at 6:53 p.m. EDTWith five hours left to vote last month, John Fetterman’s Pennsylvania Senate campaign released a confusing primary day statement: He would undergo surgery before polls closed to install a pacemaker with a defibrillator following his recent stroke.
“It should be a short procedure that will help protect his heart and address the underlying cause of his stroke, atrial fibrillation (A-fib), by regulating his heart rate and rhythm,” the unsigned May 17 statement read. ...
“You would never use a defibrillator to treat atrial fibrillation,” said Christian Thomas Ruff, a Harvard Medical School associate professor and director of general cardiology at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. “The defibrillator is used to treat dangerous heart rhythms from the bottom ventricles.”
It would take 17 days for Fetterman’s campaign to explain the inconsistency. A letter from his cardiologist, released Friday, said that the defibrillator had been installed to treat a previously undisclosed cardiomyopathy, first diagnosed in 2017, that decreased the amount of blood his heart could pump. ...
Full story at Washington Post (https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/06/04/inside-john-fettermans-changing-health-scare-story/)
Too bad the Republicans don't have a better candidate in this race.