Sen. Ted Kennedy Health Crisis

Photo from source, MSNBC

This news is recently breaking, and has already changed from the first link I went to. Initially, it was reported that Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy had experienced a stroke. Now, it is being called a seizure. These high-level politician health crises are often pretty vague at first, even after a few days. Remember Yassir Arafat? He's dead. . .no he's alive! Nope, whoops, dead. Not that I'm comparing the two men, mind you, only that political health problems are usually sketchy at best on the details.

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Kennedy hospitalized after seizure

Edward Kennedy's primary care physician said the senator is "not in any immediate danger" after suffering a seizure at his Cape Cod home Saturday.

Dr. Larry Ronan said preliminary tests showed the 76-year-old Massachusetts Democrat has not suffered a stroke. Ronan said Kennedy was resting comfortably and would undergo further evaluation to determine the cause of the seizure. . .

Read more (with video) at: MSNBC

Chief Justice Roberts or Linda Blair?

Photo from HuffingtonPost.com

You see, this is what I was talking about. It starts sounding--after initial candy-coating--worse and worse. Next, we'll hear that his head spun around, and he vomited on a priest. . .

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St. George Ambulance responded to a call at about 2 p.m. Monday of a man who had fallen 5 to 10 feet and landed on a dock, hitting the back of his head. The patient was ashen and was foaming at the mouth.

Read more at: MaineCoastNow.com

Chief Justice Roberts Hospitalized

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Why is it that when a prominent political figure--in the US or out--has some sort of health issue, they candy-coat it? At least at first, they try to make like "no big deal, he stubbed his toe."

When Cheney had his chest opened up this week, and had his pacemaker removed, his heart shocked, and a new pacemaker implanted, the news made it sound like a tetanus shot. Bush gets his innards scraped? Hey, look! He's riding his bike right afterwards. Fred Thompson was diagnosed with cancer? Cancer schmancer!

When I first heard about Roberts' condition on the news, they said he'd fallen down at his home, and was at the hospital for observation. It would seem they left something out. . .

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Chief Justice Roberts Suffers Seizure

WASHINGTON — Chief Justice John Roberts suffered a seizure at his summer home in Maine on Monday, causing a fall that resulted in minor scrapes, Supreme Court spokeswoman Kathy Arberg said.

He will remain in a hospital in Maine overnight.

"It's my understanding he's fully recovered, said Christopher Burke, a spokesman for Penobscot Bay Medical Center, where Roberts was taken.

Roberts, 52, was taken by ambulance to the medical center, where he underwent a "thorough neurological evaluation, which revealed no cause for concern," Arberg said in a statement.

Roberts had a similar episode in 1993, she said.

Doctors called Monday's incident "a benign idiopathic seizure," Arberg said. The White House described the January 1993 episode as an "isolated, idiosyncratic seizure." Both descriptions indicate that doctors could not determine the seizure's cause or link it to another medical condition. For example, doctors would have quickly ruled out simple explanations such as dehydration or low blood sugar.

Read more at: huffingtonpost.com