merkins irony
Today’s “Price is Right” got cut into with the Breaking News graphic. I stated getting excited that maybe it was Dead!
Disappointed again.
That would take some muscular kids!
As we know, he did show up. He rambled incoherently to questions, but he did show up.
On the ‘something happened at Walter Reed this weekend’ front:
“Do you want me to wake you up in the middle of the night if he dies?”
“I want you to wake me up in the middle of surgery if he dies!”
Any thoughts on what that could be? I’m assuming this is the same hand that appears bruised and miscolored in the past?
… must resist joke about there being nothing in his head to ache…
There is such a thing as bone pain.
Artemis II went behind the moon, amirite?
So is discoloration and swelling an actual side effect of the drug? Online people have said it’s a side effect of the IV itself which makes no sense to me, IVs are usually in the arm, and that doesn’t look like the bruising IVs cause (I’m not a doctor but been around a lot of people with long term IVs)
On the rare occasions when I have an IV (as for light anesthetic for a procedure), it is in the hand. There is usually a modest amount of bruising (depending on the skill of the nurse or phlebotomist) but I have not had swelling. It wouldn’t be surprising to me that a man in his general physical condition would not have good, accessible arm veins.
Yeah I’ve seen some pretty nasty bruising on my daughter from the IV when she spends time in the ICU. But nothing like what is shown in those pictures and presumably this can’t be a long term IV.
I’ve had IVs in both the arm and the back of the hand. I typically get a little bruising either way.
Yes, he’s probably getting IV something. I don’t think we have any reason to believe it’s anything in particular, and there are lots of possibilities.
My Dad, who is close in age to Trump, has hands with a similar dark spot as Trump’s left hand in those pictures. Not the right one, with what looks like a large bruise, but the left that has a less bruise-looking dark spot covering the back of his hand.
My Dad asked me what it was, and I told him to ask his dermatologist, because I don’t know.
Nah… She doesn’t care.
Do U?
Not necessarily. In the hospital before and after my hip replacement my IV line was set up on the back of my hand, with the port taped in place. Which makes sense given that a needle inserted into the inside of the elbow would greatly restrict the ability to use that arm.
When I wound up in the hospital after catching rotavirus from a train bathroom and going into hypovolemic shock a few years back, they had to put an IV in my neck to get blood pressure boosters into my system faster than an arm IV would have. It was a minor surgical procedure that took 45 minutes or so. The surgeon thanked me for having shaved that morning so he wouldn’t have to do it himself.
I think the only time I’d gotten an IV in my arm was when they removed my appendix when I was fourteen. Every other time has been the back of my hand.
Man, I first read this as “back of the head,” And I was thinking “whoa, that’s weird.”