Word: cheneys
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Cheney was leaving the hospital last week, reporters inquired if he had plans to ask Bush to replace him as his running mate. He laughed and said, "No, not yet." He and his doctors insist that the stress of his latest campaign, to say nothing of the chaos that followed Election Day, did not have much to do with his problems last week. Nothing he went through as a candidate for Vice President, Cheney said, compared to the stress he faced as Defense Secretary during the Persian Gulf...
...Cheney's first heart attack also happened during a political campaign, his first run for the House. And if George W. Bush actually makes it to the White House, the pressure on Cheney will be something else again. In a Senate likely to be split 50-50, the Vice President presides as the tie-breaking vote. Compared with the Democrats, the Iraqis were a piece of cake...
...having a heart attack, because faster access to lifesaving treatments--clot-busting drugs, emergency angioplasty, beta-blockers--increases your chances of survival. We've all learned a lot about the Electoral College in this presidential election, but the most important lesson may be the one Dick Cheney taught us about paying attention to even the smallest chest pains...
When Dick Cheney felt those familiar chest pains early last Wednesday, he knew exactly what to do. Having already had three heart attacks, he headed straight for George Washington University Hospital and sought immediate medical attention. How many of us would react so promptly--or, heart specialists agree, so properly--to the chest pains that could be early signs of a heart attack? Time is muscle, doctors like to say; the longer you wait, the more heart muscle you can lose...
...trick with heart attacks is to know what to look for, and that's not always easy. Cheney experienced the classic chest pains called angina--usually described as a squeezing pain that starts in the center of the chest and can radiate to the shoulders, neck, arms or back. Angina is the body's way of telling you that your heart is being starved; the heart muscle is screaming for the oxygen-rich blood that's not getting through a blocked or constricted coronary artery...