Sunday, October 6, 2013

"Argentina's president Cristina Fernandez suffers brain haematoma"

Fernandez, 60, was admitted on Saturday to a Buenos Aires hospital. The president suffered trauma to the brain in August, her spokesman, Alfredo Scoccimarro, said. He did not elaborate.
Fernandez is in an electoral campaign for elections at the end of October that will determine control of Congress.
A subdural haematoma is an accumulation of blood under a membrane that covers the brain and usually occurs after a blow to the head.
Fernandez, who has been president since 2007, had her thyroid glands removed last year after she was diagnosed with cancer, although later tests indicated no cancer was present.
The first thing that came to my mind after reading that was Hillary Clinton. Remember when Hillary Clinton suffered a fall and a concussion?
I'm one hundred percent sure the two events are completely unrelated. Nevertheless, for reasons, which I can only conclude must spring from the sexists influences that have distorted my perspective, there it is. My thinking, as limited and warped as it is, trying to connect these unconnected, certifiably un-connectable events. It's the darndest thing.
The blood clot that Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton suffered is inside her skull but did not result in a stroke or neurological damage, her physicians said late Monday.
The clot was discovered during a routine MRI on Sunday at New York-Presbyterian Hospital as Clinton was recuperating from a fall and concussion, according to a statement from spokesman Philippe Reines and the physicians. The doctors predicted a full recovery.
Hopefully, I too, will some day, with the help of confessionals such as this one, will be able to make a partial, if not a complete recovery. I say partial, because I'm not sure that a male, any male, can be totally 100 percent free of sexism. It's a subtle scourge.

the guardian, Washington post

14 comments:

rhhardin said...

Women are top-heavy and fall a lot.

Joe Biden, America's Putin said...

When stressed and required to face a nation after monumental screw-ups, I too fall down and hit my head a lot.

It's just a coincidence.

Now if only I could get my doctors to lie for me.

chickelit said...

The silicon chip inside Bob Geldoff's head has switched to overload: link

Icepick said...

Get these women some padded head boards.

Lem the artificially intelligent said...

"Top heavy"
Titus.

AllenS said...

They need to wear helmets.

ndspinelli said...

I'm thinking Benny "Kid" Paret.

edutcher said...

It just proves women are soft in the head.

rhhardin said...

Women are top-heavy and fall a lot.

Only the Partonesque ones.

The rest are bottom-heavy and can't get up off the couch.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...
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Eric the Fruit Bat said...

Pelvic stimulation used to be the treatment for when a woman had too much blood in the head.

bagoh20 said...
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bagoh20 said...

It has been my experience that pelvic stimulation cures nearly everything wrong with a woman who lives with you, but causes the worst of malfunctioning with those who don't.

Icepick said...

The rest are bottom-heavy and can't get up off the couch.

Was this edutcher, or has Jimbino hacked his account?

Michael Haz said...

So the bullet just grazed her head?