WH: B*sh treated for Lyme disease last year!

[npincus]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6835710,00.html

We, the US taxpayer, support the care, feeding and maintenance of that THING, but weren't told that he was hosting a large, greedy tick? Not to mention the Lyme disease.

Could that explain his twisted psychopathology?




WASHINGTON (AP) - President Bush was successfully treated for Lyme disease nearly a year ago, the White House announced Wednesday.

The condition had never been revealed until the White House on Wednesday made public the results of his annual physical exam. They said that he was treated for what they called ``early, localized Lyme disease'' last August after developing the characteristic bullseye rash, and that it did not recur.

Lyme disease is a common tick-borne infection that if left untreated can cause arthritis and other problems. The president's main form of exercise and recreational activity is mountain biking, which could bring him in contact with ticks.

Bush's last physical was Aug. 1, 2006, conducted as usual on a several-hours visit to the National Naval Medical Center in suburban Maryland. From this one, which took place in a series of exams at the White House over a couple of weeks, doctors pronounced him healthy overall.

[AlCzervik]

1. Zomg warn a person first would ya?

[iconoclastic cat]

2. I bet that tick was mad at his friends for letting him eat Bush. nt

[trudyco]

3. wonder why more extensive this year? -nt

[Ganja Ninja]

4. If it were that big and attached to his brain it would explain a lot.

[wicket]

5. Weird that they'd even withhold it

n/t

[aquart]

11. Nuh uh. This disease has extensive long-term effects.

And some of them affect brain function.

Georgie should retire for medical reasons. Because when he needs those pain pills, he ain't gonna be able to stop.

[wicket]

15. Exactly

They try to cover up EVERYTHING. Ugh.

My friend had Lyme's about 4 years ago, he still has problems, including half of his face sometimes becomes temporarily paralyzed.

[NRaleighLiberal]

6. Or was it Lime disease - for all the limes that went with all those Gin and Tonics!

[npincus]

12. LOL.. I thought it was a typo: actually 'Lie" disease

[Double T]

21. OMG! Is the tick OK?

[npincus]

22. No. Unfortunately, the tick caught a case of

crabs.

(sorry. :evilgrin: )

[Eurobabe]

45. Condolences to Harry Nilsson

Brother bought a coconut, he bought it for a dime
His sister had another one, she paid it for the LYME

She put the LYME in the coconut, she drank 'em both up (3x)
Put the LYME in the coconut, she called the doctor, woke him up, and said

Doctor, ain't there nothin' I can take, I said
Doctor, to relieve this bellyache, I said
Doctor, ain't there nothin' I can take, I said
Doctor, to relieve this bellyache

Now let me get this straight
Put the lime in the coconut, you drank 'em both up (3x)
Put the lime in the coconut, you called your doctor, woke him up, and said

Doctor, ain't there nothin' I can take, I said
Doctor, to relieve this bellyache, I said
Doctor, ain't there nothin' I can take, I said
Doctor, to relieve this bellyache

(guess who the COCONUT is?)

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. Wait....I thought it was the Nervous Tic - that coke jaw thing - not a Tick!...

Then again, if it was a Tick, it sure must have been nervous sucking all of that acrid blood!

[VP505]

8. When they pulled that

sucker off his ass it was probably already embalmed from the massive dose of alcohol it had gotten.

[npincus]

10. ...you're all killing me!

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I hope they didn't let it drive after they pulled it off his ass!

[aquart]

9. Hmmm. There are long-term effects.

(Btw, didn't really need the picture of the tick.)

<http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?sec=health&res=9C0CE6DB1339F931A15752C1A966958260>

" Some victims of Lyme disease may suffer memory loss, mood changes, tingling sensations, shooting pains and other signs of nerve damage that strike years after the initial tick bite and that may not disappear with antibiotic therapy, scientists announced today.

"This is similar to syphilis," said Dr. Allen C. Steere. "Although the neurological symptoms and consequences are different, in both diseases there are long periods of latent infection in the brain followed by a variety of neurological disorders." "

"The researchers found that a two-week course of antibiotic injections significantly improved the way the patients felt. But six months later, more than a third had either relapsed or were no better."

<http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1200/is_n1_v147/ai_16415843>

"The team compared the cognitive and physical well-being of 38 adults from Ipswich, Mass., who had developed Lyme disease in the past 1 to 11 years with 43 residents of the same town who had not suffered from the infection.

The Lyme group had a higher incidence of verbal memory impairment, fatigue, joint pain, and other musculoskeletal difficulties than the uninfected group, the researchers report in the Oct. 15 ANNALS OF INTERNAL MEDICINE. "The presence of arthralgias was by far the best predictor of previous Lyme disease," they assert."

Now, what's addict boy going to do for all that pain?

[acmavm]

13. Wonder what the tick came down with.

[Bluebear]

31. :)

[bmbmd]

14. Bull's Eye rash-

or chancre?

[Arkansas Granny]

35. Apparently, the bulls eye rash is associated with Lyme Disease.

[Neshanic]

16. Now there are little monkey faced Ticks in the woods.

[proud2BlibKansan]

17. Gee I wonder if he got it in Crawford

while he was clearing brush?

[Double T]

18. No wonder no one has seen Laura 'pickles' Bush for the last year.

Who wants to be in the company of a dude with infectious ticks?

[Behind the Aegis]

19. What'd they treat the tick for?

Alcohol poisioning? Cocaine OD? Bullshit overload?

Well, at least one of them can correctly and accurately say..."Mission Accomplished!"

[Eurobabe]

44. LMAO

:rofl:

I wondered the same thing. The tick probably fared far worse than Asshat.

[SoCalDem]

20. Maybe that's why he walks like Igor..

[aquart]

24. Oh, I do hope it hurts.

But I really want it to be something that can be cured only by stem cells.

[TwilightGardener]

23. Well, now he knows how our country feels, having hosted greedy

bloodthirsty parasites who've been infecting us and sucking us dry for seven years.

[malaise]

25. Good disease

for a fugging parasite. That fugger ticks me off big time.

[npincus]

26. now if that tick were named Monica

we'd all have known that B*sh was getting sucked.

[Solly Mack]

27. "...weren't told that he was hosting a large, greedy tick? "(Cheney,Gonzales, Rove)

I hope he is suffering

[npincus]

28. that's not nice. Rest here, Mr. B*sh:

[Solly Mack]

30. Nah....I'd rather he suffer...without medical care

[onethatcares]

29. "bullseye rash"WTF??

I thought they were gin blossoms. They should have also mentioned, the pretzeldents' main form of exercise is fuckking over the American people, not mountain biking.

[FourScore]

32. Geez...the poor tick. n/t

[lapislzi]

33. No one could have predicted

that a tiny little tick could lodge on the royal buttock, engorge itself with presidentiary blood and threaten his imperial assholiness...except for the presidential daily briefing, "Ticks determined to strike at the president." Looks like lil georgie didn't cover his own ass.

[npincus]

34. ROFLMAO- Someone please PhotoShop:

:rofl:

[jn2375]

36. shit that picture should come with a warning, yuck

[Warpy]

37. I would imagine the tick was poisoned

but if Lyme is caught early and treated appropriately, it's easy enough to cure. It's only when the spirochetes cross the blood brain barrier that it becomes extremely difficult to eradicate because most antibiotics don't cross the blood brain barrier to find it.

I had it in the early 80s. I was "fortunate" enough to be very sick with it immediately, so I got early and appropriate antibiotic therapy. Most people just get a localized rash and some people don't even get that.

[DemoTex]

38. A friend of mine died from Lyme disease in Bucks County, Pa.

Another friend's wife and two daughters are very sick from chronic effects of Lyme disease .. again, Bucks County, Pa.

[npincus]

39. awful.

so sorry. :(

[Terri S]

40. blood-sucking insects are naturally drawn to each other n/t

[Venus Dog]

41. I think this story is bullshit and here's why

Nothing that comes out of the WH is true - why should I believe this? It's bullshit.

Yes, he most definitely has medical & psychiatric problems - we all know that - caused from years of alcohol and drug abuse. It's my belief that they can no longer disguise his symptoms in public because it is getting really bad. So they decide to tag him with an exotic disease that makes him seem more manly - Lyme disease! Yeah, that's it! It's an outdoor disease - you can catch it from a tick because you spend a lot of your time outdoors hunting, fishing, clearing brush - like a real man!

That's why the delay - because there was no treatment for Lyme disease, but they have to come up with something now because the naked emperor is probably showing signs of Parkinson's or something they can't hide anymore.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

42. Even disease inflicting parasites apparently get parasites themselves

[Catherine Vincent]

43. I think there's other stuff wrong with him.

We won't know that until he's out of office.