Uncle Bill Recovering

[Calliander]

I know the procedure is pretty routine, but I was worried about Clittin' for a while there. You of course need a registration to view the article on the site.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/nati...Health.html?hp

Clinton Is Said to Be Resting After Successful Heart Surgery

Published: September 6, 2004

NEW YORK -- Former President Bill Clinton underwent successful heart bypass surgery Monday at a Manhattan hospital and was resting comfortably, his spokesman said.

The medical team that performed the procedure at New York Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia planned a 4 p.m. EDT press briefing.

"The surgery was successful and the president is resting comfortably," Clinton spokesman Jim Kennedy said.

Preparations for the surgery began at about 6:45 a.m. EDT, said a hospital source who spoke on condition of anonymity. The Clinton spokesman confirmed just before 1:30 p.m. the surgery was complete.

The surgical team was led by Dr. Craig R. Smith, the hospital's chief of cardiothoracic surgery.

Clinton, 58, was hospitalized Friday after suffering chest pains and shortness of breath.

The former president and his family issued a statement on the Clinton Foundation's Web site on Sunday, saying they felt "blessed and grateful for the thousands of prayers and messages of good will we have received these past few days."

"While bypass surgery certainly isn't something to look forward to, we are very lucky that the condition was detected in time to have this procedure before something more serious occurred," the statement said.

The Web site said Clinton had received more than 30,000 get-well messages over the past several days.

I think Bubba had a few too many Big Macs.

[Linkin-ator]

Bill Clinton's a joke just like everyone else in AR. It's a good thing we have Bush in office now! He's a real president.

[James]

Sarcasm detector overload!

*boom!*

Damn it, you broke it!

James

[Joust Williams]

Which reminds me...

...I was pretty miffed when they cut from the golf programming so I could hear a few surgeons tell me crap I already knew. Thanks a lot, ABC. I mean, I'm glad he's OK, but that's all that needed to be said on that channel at the time.

[ChaoofNee]

Bill Clinton's a joke just like everyone else in AR. It's a good thing we have Bush in office now! He's a real president.

Well, I for one don't think politics belong here and am glad to hear that it went successfully.

[Diff-chan]

Well, I agree that Bill Clinton is a joke, but he's certainly as real a president as Bush or any other.

[Rhydant]

Do you mean real, as in tangible?

[Gohron]

I seriously dislike the man but I guess I'm glad he pulled through ok.

[Yoshi]

Glad to hear the surgery went well. A lot of tax money would have been wasted on that schmuck's funeral this year had it gone wrong.

[g0zen]

You can be your usual assholish self Yoshi, but we all know the real reason you're glad he didn't kick it was because you know it would've secured Hillary '08 without question.