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camelot
Barsoom


USA
333 Posts

Posted - 28/07/2007 :  03:14:38  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Oh, it's heart device



Cheney to get battery for heart device

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney will undergo minor surgery Saturday morning to replace the battery that powers a device implanted in his chest six years ago to monitor his heart and deliver a shock if it ever goes out of rhythm.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070727/ap_on_go_pr_wh/cheney

Edited by - camelot on 28/07/2007 03:15:24

FUBAR
Barsoom



425 Posts

Posted - 29/07/2007 :  23:32:50  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
I guess it is a step up from the NHS method of delivering a shock which is to have a guy with a paper bag follow you around all day, bit of a fibrilation and BANG goes the paper bag..........

I came into the world with nothing and still have most of it left..
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Fluffy Sheep
Discworld



1178 Posts

Posted - 29/07/2007 :  23:46:09  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Big Deal, so Cheney has a pacemaker and it`s due for a battery change! They must be short of news items, as someone said here recently on some other thread....

Row faster, slaves! Caesar wants to waterski!
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camelot
Barsoom



USA
333 Posts

Posted - 30/07/2007 :  01:06:52  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
The news to many of us was that Cheney had a heart at all...
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NAZZ
Barsoom



United Kingdom
179 Posts

Posted - 30/07/2007 :  01:26:40  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
hows the summer fest going Camo,beware the taste of polonia(m)

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camelot
Barsoom



USA
333 Posts

Posted - 30/07/2007 :  01:47:23  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
All good nazz...no longer "sole" provider though...wife working three days a week this summer as temp for Chicago School system. I believe she is seeking sainthood.
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NAZZ
Barsoom



United Kingdom
179 Posts

Posted - 30/07/2007 :  03:16:09  Show Profile  Reply with Quote
Beware that try for sainthod could end as matrydom ie.I work,Iclean,Icook,I see to the kids,WHAT!!!!!!! do you do?

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