What is Trump's current health?

I’m voting never. We may get some tidbits but not the full picture

Did “they” ever clarify what was wrong with Woodrow Wilson?

Edith Wilson’s memoir was published in 1939…15 years after his death. She outlined the extent of Woodrow Wilson’s stroke, and the doctors advice to “not give him a new anxiety or problem to excite him”.

When somebody leaks the autopsy results?

Trump actually discussed his health in a recent media interview.

Again says he “aced” the cognitive test.

Wore compression six for a while but stopped because he didn’t like them.

Takes more aspirin daily than his doctors recommend because he wants “nice, thin blood pouring into his heart”.

Clarified that it was a CT scan, not an MRI scan, to look at his heart.

Sure. If that’s true, it just means he’s a complete and total asshole. Well, we knew that already.

That should be :slight_smile:
“Wore compression sox”

If you mean an accurate list of diagnoses, it will be in a magisterial prize-winning doorstop biography published, oh, maybe 30 years from now. Whether the U.S. will be a free enough country for it to be published there, I have no idea. But somewhere on earth will still be free enough for it to be published.

Suppose I’m wrong and the accurate list leaks tomorrow. Having an accurate list of diagnoses, for a 79 year old man, is not usually going to substantially narrow down that man’s life expectancy much more than comes from just knowing he’s a 79 year old man getting regular medical care in the United States and still able to walk and talk..

“No, Donald, you’re not wrong…”

I think we’ll never know, HIPPA and all. Maybe Melania will go on a recreational grief tour like Erika Kirk and tell us how hard it was to care for a senile poopy old man, but barring that I think all the lips are as sealed as can be.

HIPAA. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act.

(Sorry, I work in the industry, and this common misspelling grates on me.)

Is Trump taking too much aspirin? Here’s what experts say

Trump takes 325 mg of aspirin daily. What do experts think of that? : Shots - Health News : NPR

My bold in all cases.


Experts recommend that these patients take 81 milligrams of aspirin every day to reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease. (The dose used to be described as a “baby aspirin,” but aspirin is no longer recommended for regular use in children.) The low dose is often prescribed — rather than Trump’s 325 milligram dose — because there’s no benefit to taking a higher dose, according to a large study published in 2021.

“There’s some evidence that if you’ve already tolerated the higher dose of 325 milligrams, there’s probably very little additional risk to taking that over the 81 milligram dose,” says Dr. Eleanor Levin, a preventive cardiologist at Stanford Medicine. “The higher dose is unnecessary, though.”

But MORE has to be better! It HAS to be the best!!


Here’s the bad news:

Though safer than other blood thinners, patients taking the drug — even at low doses — are at an increased risk of bleeding in the stomach and brain. But these adverse events are unlikely to cause death.

:frowning:


No mystery about the backs of his hands:

"As you get in your late 70s and 80s, you get a lot of thinning of the skin, so it’s more delicate. You’ll have patients come in, and they don’t remember bumping against a table or a chair, and they have bruises all over their arms."

I see this a lot at The Home.

Easy bruising? Yeh, I regularly get a small bruise on the inside of my left arm, a few inches up from my hand. Used to bewilder me till I realized that I’d rest boxes and bags there when I was carrying them and that was where the edge or corner hit.

FWIW, the 325 mg dose Trump’s taking isn’t necessarily him just snarfing down multiple children’s aspirin, but rather taking one regular old aspirin tablet once a day. As much as it pains me to say it, it’s not as insane as it first sounded when I read about it.

As an aside:

I always wondered how the 81 mg aspirin dose was determined. Seems weirdly specific – not 79 or 80 or 82 or 83 … but 81. But now I realize that it’s likely a rounding down of 325 mg divided by 4 (81.25 mg).

Thanks for that. I wondered myself.

Which begs the question, why 325 mg? Why not 300 or 350 or 333?

Apparently, because the old-school apothecary measurement for an aspirin tablet was 5 grains, which converts to 325 mg.