According to The New York Times, Joe Biden suffered from two brain aneurysms in 1988. "I had two cranial aneurysms, and they literally had to take the top of my head off," Biden said at the White House National Conference on Mental Health (via CNS News). He added, "I remember going down [to the operating room], and asking the doc ... 'Doc, what are my chances [of living]?' ... He said, 'Well, they're in the 35 to 50 percent range.'"
Doctors informed him that, if everything went well, Biden might have trouble speaking, to which he thought: "'Why in the hell didn't they tell me this before [my 1998 campaign for president]?' It could have saved us all a lot of trouble; you know what I mean?"
Sure explains a lot about uncle dementia
carolina73 (07-19-2020),Section31 (07-19-2020)
Surgeon who operated on Biden: He's better now than before brain surgery
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...-brain-surgery
Joe Biden almost died after suffering an aneurysm while serving in the Senate, but the surgeon who operated on his brain says that the incident shouldn't hold him back in his pursuit of the presidency.
Dr. Neal Kassell, the renowned neurosurgeon who operated on Biden, said he’s confident that Biden is “totally in the clear,” and joked that he believed the surgery had even “made him better than how he was.”
Red Green
The man's prayer:
I'm a man
But I can change
If I have to
I guess
Leanne778 (07-19-2020)
bulletbob (07-19-2020)
Why are you all Talking about the Top of Joe's Head??????
He had Brain Surgery for God's Sake, it is the other end that will have the Scar
Number 14.
Fascinating stuff.
From the Opening Post's linked National Review article:
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14. Also in Thurmond’s eulogy, Biden told a wild story of stepping between the South Carolina senator and an unnamed angry tourist in the U.S. Senate:
I was coming across to vote in the Senate and going up the escalator, and a fellow who apparently had held a longtime grudge against Senator Thurmond, a tourist, literally interposed himself between me and Strom and then said — and Thad may remember this — and said, “If you weren’t so old, I would knock you” — and, Reverend, I will not say what he said — “I will knock you down.” And I immediately stood between them. And Strom literally took off his coat and said, “Hold my coat, Joe.” Swear to God. And I looked at him and said, “No, no, no, no, no, no.” And with that, he went down and did 25 pushups. He had to be 88, 87. He stood up and looked at the man — he said, “If you weren’t so young, I’d knock you down.”
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I don't believe that really happened.
JAG
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