July 27, 2007

Cheney To Have Pacemaker Replaced

Vice President Dick Cheney will be at George Washington University Hospital tomorrow to have the battery in his pacemaker replaced. A spokeswoman said the entire device will be changed out in order to replace the battery.

The procedure is routine for a man who, as the AP notes, "has had four heart attacks, quadruple bypass surgery, two artery-clearing angioplasties and an operation to implant the defibrillator." Last Saturday, Cheney was the president for a few hours as George W. Bush underwent a colonoscopy. The five polyps found his colon were not cancerous.

Posted at 3:28 PM
Posted to: Bush Administration, Dick Cheney, Health, President Bush
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