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Caribbean-Latin America
Castro in "slow, progressive" recovery
2007-01-19
So slow, you can hardly see it...
MADRID (Reuters) - Cuban leader Fidel Castro is making a "slow but progressive" recovery although his condition is serious due to his advanced age, a Spanish doctor who has examined him said on Friday.
Yep, you'll be up and dancing in no time, El Supremo...
Castro, 80, has suffered complications after undergoing surgery to his digestive system but could return to his normal life if he manages to make a full recovery, Dr Jose Luis Garcia Sabrido said.
Thanks for the scoop, doc.
"I have recent information that his recovery is slow but progressive," Garcia Sabrido, who examined Castro in Havana late last year and is a consultant to the Cuban leader's medical team, told Reuters.
Nurse! More ice for El Jefe's ice machine!
"The doctor is lying!"
"How can you tell?"
"His lips are moving!"
Garcia Sabrido, head of surgery at Madrid's Gregorio Maranon hospital, said the outlook for any patient of Castro's age who had undergone complications after surgery, was very serious. "For a patient of his age, who has had complications after an operation, it's always going to be a general prognosis," Garcia Sabrido said, when asked if Castro was in a "very serious condition," as reported by Spain's El Pais newspaper this week.
When in doubt, don't answer the question.
Posted by:tu3031

#9  Thanks to our comrades in Haiti, Castro will be the first Zombie ever to represent Cuba!
Posted by: flash91   2007-01-19 19:13  

#8  I guess, in this case, it'll be one of those "slow, progressive recoveries" ala Stalin, Franco, Daddy Kim, Krushchev, Andropov, et al.

Franco is still dead, right?

Posted by: FOTSGreg   2007-01-19 14:18  

#7  RC: Did you hear Castro's had an asshole transplant? I've been wondering whatever became of Michael Moore. The rejection surprises me, tho. I would have thought it a perfect match.
Posted by: GK   2007-01-19 14:08  

#6  Rob Crawford Did you hear Castro's had an asshole transplant? Fortunately, the asshole's rejected him.

LOL! :-) funny RC.

******************

Scene: World Renown Socialist Paradise Hospital in Downtown Havana.

Cut To, Transplant team and Castro: the Chief Doc, Dr. Vinny Chihuahua answering questions with El Hefe himself..

Castro asks, "hey Doc, How will I know if I'm having a rejection episode after my asshole transplant"?

Dr. Vinny Chihuahua answers, "Well the good thing is that there are warning signs".

Castro, "hey, like what I'm concerened?"

Dr. Vinny Chihuahua, it's like this Comendante,.. well first your asshole will begin to itch like hell for a couple of hours, then your asshole begins to stink real bad, five minutes after that it's all over Fidel your asshole falls off".

Castro cries like a little girl..The End
Posted by: RD   2007-01-19 12:36  

#5  Non sequitur Monty Python quote, there, Rob.

Instead: He's pining.

OK, so it's a Python rip-off. It's also apropos. They actually did give him a transplant.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2007-01-19 11:56  

#4  Castro in "slow, progressive" recovery
Yeah, those commie types really go for the incrementalism, don't they. Progressive... pfeh!
Posted by: eLarson   2007-01-19 11:08  

#3  I wonder if when he kicks the bucket their gov will be like the Norks and claim he is still alive and technically still the leader although his brother will be handling the daily mundane stuff.
Posted by: C-Low   2007-01-19 10:53  

#2  Non sequitur Monty Python quote, there, Rob.

Instead: He's pining.
Posted by: Mizzou Mafia   2007-01-19 10:40  

#1  Did you hear Castro's had an asshole transplant? Fortunately, the asshole's rejected him.
Posted by: Rob Crawford   2007-01-19 10:06  

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