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Home Front: Politix
Kennedy Hospitalized After a Seizure. Not dead yet.
2008-05-18
Senator Edward M. Kennedy, 76, leader of the nationÂ’s most storied political dynasty, was hospitalized in Boston on Saturday after popping a vein apparently suffering a seizure.

Mr. Kennedy, 76, has been in the Senate since the Miocene 1962. Family members and hangers on friends gathered in Boston. One person close to the family said that after an initial scare, Kennedy intimates were reasonably optimistic Mr. Kennedy would recover quickly and fully. Another family friend described his medical condition as serious but not life-threatening.

The senatorÂ’s office issued a statement on Saturday afternoon saying that Mr. Kennedy went to Cape Cod Hospital after feeling ill at his Hyannis Port home shortly after 8 a.m. Saturday. He was then sent by medical helicopter to Massachusetts General Hospital for further examination, the statement said.

A later statement from the office said: “It appears that Senator Kennedy experienced a seizure this morning. He is undergoing a battery of tests at Massachusetts General Hospital to determine the cause of the seizure. Senator Kennedy is resting comfortably, and it is unlikely we will know anything more for the next 48 hours.”
Posted by:Fred

#12  CyberSarge: Hmm cross the Clintons, have a seizure? I'm just saying.

Damn, Cyber Sarge until you mentioned it..

No off the shelf coffin for him, The Unabridged Colossus will have to have a custom made!?
>:)
Posted by: RD   2008-05-18 22:31  

#11  CyberSarge: Stranger things have happened. Crossing hte CLinton machine is not something one does lightly. Not even a Kennedy.
Posted by: OldSpook   2008-05-18 20:51  

#10  "by the way, kids, stand back and don't try this at home. Everyone have safety glasses and thermal protection on?.."
Posted by: Frank G   2008-05-18 18:02  

#9  just a match for the funeral pyre...
Posted by: Frank G   2008-05-18 18:01  

#8  When he dies they won't have to embalm him.
Posted by: JohnQC   2008-05-18 17:58  

#7  Bad ice cubes. Nothing to see here.
Posted by: Muggsy Gling   2008-05-18 17:13  

#6  Hmm cross the Clintons, have a seizure? I'm just saying.
Posted by: Cyber Sarge   2008-05-18 16:26  

#5  Delta Tangoz
Posted by: George Smiley   2008-05-18 14:08  

#4  Kennedy intimates were reasonably optimistic Mr. Kennedy would recover quickly and fully.

There is NO justice in this World, Dammit.
Posted by: Redneck Jim   2008-05-18 13:29  

#3  He's having a hard time, living the good life.
Posted by: Alaska Paul in Fairbanks, AK   2008-05-18 12:25  

#2  #1 Wonder if he got a glimpse of Mary Jo?

from the pic, I wonder if he saw Captain Ahab
Posted by: Frank G   2008-05-18 12:00  

#1  Wonder if he got a glimpse of Mary Jo?
Posted by: Skidmark   2008-05-18 10:48  

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