Showing posts with label Stroke. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Stroke. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Rugby Player Says a Stroke "Turned" Him Gay

I do believe he's gay (I mean, look), I just
don't think he "turned." From HuffPo
Oh, good grief. That the stroke triggered a realization, I'll buy that. But turned him gay? Bullcrap. I'm not buying it. And given that this man is in his mid-20s, I think a eureka moment is a lot more likely than some switch being tripped. Many gay men and women don't get their eureka until after decades of marriage and children. Those people didn't all have strokes or brain injuries!


I shudder to think what FreeRepublic.com and the like-minded have to say about this.


[Excerpt]


Chris Birch, Former Rugby Jock, Claims Stroke 'Turned Him Gay'

The "nature vs. nurture" debate over sexual orientation continues at full force, but now, one former rugby-playing Welsh jock claims to have actually "woken up gay" after a gym accident led him to suffer a stroke. . .


Read more at: Huffington Post

Saturday, May 17, 2008

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
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