[FedCom] The hump on Bush's back

[Richard Crisp]

usually people wear heart monitors as a diagnostic aid. It might be a simple 
beat irregularity that is easily corrected. It might be that he ambiguous 
symptoms and they are simply taking data to rule out cardiac involvement. 
Wearing an ambulatory monitor doesn't necessarily equate to having a serious 
medical condition. It means that there is diagnostic activity underway.

I bring this up because that's exactly what was going on with my 83 year old 
mother during the summer of 2003. Her doctor had her wear an ambulatory 
monitor to see if she was having heart issues. Turned out that was 
completely clear after she wore it for a month. When she had her "episodes" 
she was instructed to push a button that was attached to a wire attached to 
the unit so that it could record her activity. Turned out to be an H.Pylori 
ulcer but they had to do a bunch of tests to rule out certain possibilities 
and isolate the cause. The heart is usually one of the first things 
suspected. I understand that someone reported that Bush reached in his 
pocket at one point to "adjust" something. Perhaps he was pushing the button 
like my mom had to do?

My point is that there are lots of theories as to what it is and I just 
don't "drink the koolaid" that POTUS is a marionette with the handlers 
pulling the strings by telling him what to say at all times. The 
Bush-Bashers might be right but they may be wrong too. I only bring up 
several other ideas as to what might be going on basing at least one of them 
on my mom's experience.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Gottlieb" <nerd at verizon.net>
To: "Richard Crisp" <rdcrisp at earthlink.net>; "Discussion of Federal 
Government Communications" <fedcom at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Thursday, October 14, 2004 8:45 PM
Subject: Re: [FedCom] The hump on Bush's back


>I sure hope you are wrong about this.  If the President has a serious 
>medical condition and the power at large are keeping it secret then I would 
>consider this to really have crossed the line.  The public has a right to 
>know about the health of the presidential candidates as this directly 
>affects their ability to perform their job.
>
> Peter
>
>
> Richard Crisp wrote:
>
>>
>> The other explanation just doesn't pass Occam's Razor test best I can 
>> tell. It might be correct, but I think there's a simpler explanation in 
>> it being a medical device such as a  heart monitor or a neurostimulator.
>>
>
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