The latest updates on Rush Limbaugh are confusing and vague

[gateley]

There hasn't been much news on Rush since he was admitted to a Honolulu hospital Wednesday night after experiencing sudden chest pains. There haven't been any definitive updates but all sorts of "other" information has drifted into the public square, some of it conflicting, some of it odd, some of it conspiratorial and some of it amusing. <snip>

We know the basics: sudden chest pains; hospitalized and listed in serious condition but, according to his website, is "resting comfortably."
The chest pains were "similar to a heart attack," but the hospital hasn't said he had a heart attack. In fact, ABC News reported that doctors were "stumped" as to exactly what was wrong.<snip>

Limbaugh's actual condition could be anywhere in a huge range. This could be chest pains just barely suggestive enough of angina, with admission enzymes or an EKG maybe a little bit questionable. But if you admit anyone on even the most marginal of rule-out-angina grounds, they have to go to a unit with cardiac monitoring (an EKG machine attached and running continuously), and that means they automatically get labeled as "Serious" condition.
Or he could be in genuinely serious trouble. Even if he has had an MI, though, while that could be a serious long-term problem for him, most people don't die outright or in the short-term from an MI, certainly not their first one, certainly not if they seek and receive medical attention early. If you make it to the hospital alive with your first MI, you'll probably leave alive as well.<snip>

http://www.examiner.com/x-15870-Populist-Examiner~y2010m1d1-The-latest-updates-on-Rush-Limbaugh-are-confusing-and-vague

[Mika]

1. Might have been a Viagra erection that lasted a few too many hours.

Some people say he's a sexual tourist.


:shrug:

[gateley]

10. I think those sexual tourist forays are into more exotic -- and faraway -- locales.

Don't think he'd go to Hawaii, esp when the President/Press is there.

I also saw recently that he's engaged, so I'm assuming he was there with his poor, deluded fiance.

[salguine]

25. Maybe they lifted up his belly and found a Dominican boy.

[Kingofalldems]

2. Sorry but what is an MI?

[Frank Cannon]

4. myocardial infarction AKA heart attack n/t

[Mika]

5. MI = myocardial infarction. n/t

[Frank Cannon]

3. If this is drug related, as seems pretty obvious to me...

then we're not going to hear anything substantive for a long time.

[gateley]

6. I was thinking the same thing. nt

[Bitwit1234]

13. REMEMBER he told the EMT's he WAS taking pain medication

for his BACK....And one of the systems of taking some of those drugs is something similar to a heart attack...I can't see a guy out playing golf, when he said he had back pain. Wouldn't that make it 100 times worst.

[Frank Cannon]

14. Yes, I found the golf story pretty laughable

Only Rush's willfully ignorant followers could buy that one.

[alfredo]

18. It seems that back trouble bad enough to be on pain meds would be

too painful for golf.

[malaise]

30. Rush was probably on the golf course stalking

Obama.
sp

[madokie]

33. Thats where my money would go too

you know that sorry sob planned to come back from his Hawaii vacation, near the President, full of piss and vinegar and all kinds of lies abut the Obama's

[tularetom]

7. You'd want the updates on you to be confusing and vague too

If you had OD'ed on oxycodone.

Or needed to have a small rodent removed from your lower digestive tract.

Just sayin'.

[SmileyRose]

8. Get well soon Rush

I mean that with all sincerity. God only knows why, but someone, somewhere, loves that fucking asshole.

[lpbk2713]

9. I wonder if he made it there in the "golden hour"?

He could have been in a drug induced stupor for some time and not been aware that his heart muscle was being damaged.

There's always hope.

[fasttense]

11. What are you saying? Could the Limpball be dead?

Is this just another conspiracy theory, or just wishful thinking?

[gratuitous]

12. He's been in hospital for two nights

He's either in worse condition than his lackeys are letting on, or that's some Cadillac health insurance his devoted listeners are paying for him to have.

[proud2BlibKansan]

15. I'm trying hard not to care

:shrug:

[blueamy66]

21. Me too.

I am trying to care.

[warrior1]

16. Just guessing

But it could be an aortic aneurysm.

An aortic aneurysm is a general term for any swelling (dilatation or aneurysm) of the aorta, usually representing an underlying weakness in the wall of the aorta at that location. While the stretched vessel may occasionally cause discomfort, a greater concern is the risk of rupture, which causes severe pain; massive internal hemorrhage; and, without prompt treatment, results in a quick death.


A good friend's sister had this happen to her this year. She's still recovering. Totally changed her life.

[DrDan]

17. of course they are confused - how can a guy without a heart have a heart attack????

[liberalmuse]

19. Maybe he's in detox.

It is a little odd. I just read how the hotel security took great efforts to discreetly get him out, and I think that might be the explanation. He doesn't want any of this leaking.

[greenbriar]

20. don't some with extreme gas pains think they are having a heart attack?

you know since he is full of shit, that could be the explanation

[izquierdista]

23. Maybe they are giving him an enema

To empty all that shit should take until about mid-August.

[CreekDog]

26. if so, they don't stay in the hospital for 24+ hours

:shrug:

[salguine]

22. .

[XanaDUer]

24. Maybe he was choking to death on a ham sandwich?

:shrug:

[lpbk2713]

29. Another possibility ...

Maybe Dumbya sent OxyRush some of his favorite pretzels? :shrug:

[slater71]

27. could be pills

He said on his show about two weeks before christmas that he was standing up to do the show because his neck was killing him and he could not sit down long. Back on the oxy?

[Meeker Morgan]

28. Who cares?

If the bastard croaks this time, there's plenty to replace him.

[madokie]

31. Thats an easy one to diagnose

oxycontin and viagra and a blubber ass. Gawd how I feel for his new bride what she'll have to go through to get some of that haters money. She'll have earned every penny of it is all I know. poor girl. I don't mean to degrade her just pointing out the job she has cause at some point she's gonna have all that stinking shit she can take and make a break for it abd when she does I hope she's able to soak him for a bunch of money

[Mari333]

32. seen this happen in my family many times

probly get bypass surgery. have a huge scare on his chest. yada yada. change diet, stop cigars, etc.
some people get better, some dont.

[postulater]

34. They should consider cervical angina.

Neck pain,
heart symptoms
doctors stumped

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2296405

Needs a good chiropractor and some PT.