Looks like the answer to Dick Cheney's medical problems....

[whistle]

would be to amputate both legs just above the knees and to tie his stomach in a knot around the lower end of his esophagus.

<snip>
Tests: Cheney has esophagus problem
July 17, 2005

WASHINGTON -- Vice President Dick Cheney suffers from a mild case of esophagitis and some dilation of the arteries behind both knees, his office said Saturday after he completed an annual physical.

Cheney, 64, was at George Washington University Hospital for a colonoscopy, an upper endoscopy and vascular screening.

In the first part of the exams last week, a heart checkup produced good news for Cheney, who has had four heart attacks. The latest tests found his colon to be normal, said a statement from his spokeswoman.

The endoscopy indicated swelling or irritation of the esophagus.

The exam also "identified small, dilated segments of the arteries behind both knees." The vice president "is awaiting final recommendations from his medical team," the statement said.

<link> http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-cheney17.html

[HysteryDiagnosis]

1. If he knew what he was doing.... he might consider the "purple"

pill.... then again... if he really knew what he was doing... he might like to take a biological response modifier... manapol is one... and it works.

[liberalnurse]

2. Could Cheney have esophageal varices?

Was he not a heavy drinker alcoholic? Yes he was....how many DUI?

This is what I think the problem is......

http://www.gastromd.com/education/esophagealvarices.html

Esophageal varices are dilated blood vessels within the wall of the esophagus. Patients with cirrhosis develop Portal Hypertension. When Portal Hypertension occurs, blood flow through the liver is diminished. Thus, blood flow increases through the microscopic blood vessels within the esophageal wall. As this blood flow increases, the blood vessels begin to dilate. This dilation can be profound. The original diameter the of blood vessels is measured in millimeters while the final, fully established, esophageal varix may be 0.5 to 1.0 cm or larger in diameter.

These blood vessels then continue to dilate until they become large enough to rupture. When esophageal varices rupture, patients become acutely ill. In fact, 50 percent of patients with esophageal varices will eventually bleed from the varices. The mortality rate for esophageal variceal bleeding, on the first event, is between 40 and 70 percent. Mortality is due to multiple factors:

Liver failure
Sepsis
Exsanguination
Cerebral edema.
Complications associated with anemia.

[whistle]

4. Whatever Dick Cheney has, I would never want to go through ...

...any of it. What price power? What price corruption? What price deception?

[leveymg]

5. What meds would b prescribed, any psychological side-effects?

A couple months ago, I asked the same question about the skin lesions on W's face that continue to bleed. See, http://www.williambowles.info/guests/2005/bush_cancer.html

[liberalnurse]

6. They treat the varices with

surgery....they inject them with some vasoconstriction treatment. I hear it's similiar to leg varacose veins.

If they blow....OMG gushing blood everywhere. The treatment that follows is messy....called a GI Bleeder. One vomits lot of fresh blood.

[leveymg]

7. What maintenance meds would he be treated with?

Anything neurosychiatric?

[liberalnurse]

8. I didn't pick up on any clues

regarding psyche meds being given by the medical report. We can all speculate.

[rzemanfl]

3. How do you do a colonoscopy on a complete asshole, just take

a Polaroid or what?