But these effects are supposed to decline after the surgery, no? Wikipedia claims they're transient, etc. How long ago was Clinton under the knife?
Wikipedia claims they're transient
But there's debate about whether they actually are.
But this says it's not surgery, but coronary artery disease itself, that causes the mental decline.
And actually, I wasn't quite accurate in saying that the Vanity Fair article said he has pumphead:
There is further medical disagreement about whether such changes are caused in part by small particles of plaque that are discharged by the heart-lung machine and sent to the brain, or by the underlying artery disease itself.
The fact that increased time on the pump correlates with more severe decline sort of argues for the former, don't it?
Eh. The article strikes me as sufficiently bad that I wouldn't trust descriptions of the persistence of Clinton's moods as sufficient to make a lay diagnosis.
This is probably the single scariest thing about needing serious heart surgery. Although I've read that there is a new style of heart-lung machine that is much easier on your blood than the old-school peristaltic ones.
Beats the hell out of dying, I guess...
to make a lay diagnosis
I'm not trying to diagnose Clinton; I'm just wondering about pumphead and whether it'll be a bigger deal as politicians get older.
I read this as "pumpkinhead," and thought to myself, "his face isn't that orange."
I'm inclined to believe in pumphead, having watched my dad's personality change seriously after OHS; I realize just how it works and what the real cause is will have to be teased out.
That article! I like the businessman happening on Steve Bing, Clinton, and a "ravishing posse" (or whatever it was) in an elevator.
Living in bodies is scary as fuck. I'm not afraid of death, but I'm terrified of the long decline and what seems like one to two decades of intense medicalization that precedes death.
i read first like pimphead and thought, ah, hypoxia, must be there are some symptoms of priapism or cluver-bucy something
The fact that increased time on the pump correlates with more severe decline sort of argues for the former, don't it?
I think you mean, "doesn't it?".
You're welcome.
i read first like pimphead and thought, ah, hypoxia, must be there are some symptoms of priapism or cluver-bucy something
Those problems predate the bypass in Clinton's case.
Living in bodies is scary as fuck.
The thought of being buried in a Pringles can is even scarier.
yeah, yeah, completely irrelevant, funny thing was to read it as i when it's u
i blame the cyrillic
Living in bodies is scary as fuck.
Consider the alternative.
As for postperfusion syndrome, I'll check on Father Flippanter, but he's had multiple "cardiac events" without apparent changes to character. Although he's only started complaining about high taxes in the last year or so....
Consider the alternative.
Immortal robot bodies!
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Consider the alternative.
Disembodied ethereal spirits floating through the universe!
Murphy: Well, could my robot be a- heh, beautiful woman?
Sparks: Uh, yeah. Sure.
Murphy: Then you'd better believe I'd put my brain in a robot's body!
My father has exhibited some degree of personality shift after having had OHS but to be honest it's seemed to track more closely with his getting internet access than with his surgery.
And I got apwned, I'll note, because I wanted to take the time to look up how to spell "Adrienne Barbeaubot."
Maybe I'm not a robot at all, but just a virus simultaneously infecting many different computers.... What is reality, after all? Who am I, really? What does it all mean?
John, Chuang-tze called and he wants his existence as perhaps a butterfly back.
Sorry, the butterfly's too busy working up a hurricane.
OT: This video at TPM is hilarious. Such impressive message discipline.
It pretty much sucks not knowing everything. My guess is there is something to pumphead but it won't be a bigger deal as politicians get older.
We are so far removed from the reality of the candidates and the volume of distortion is so large a new slur like 'pumphead' won't matter a bit.
"Crazy," "pumphead," "tetched in the head," they are all used the same way, as a means to tar someone.
In medicine the precise terms and understanding will matter a great deal. Sadly precision and understanding have no place in politics.