Aug 12 2006

Cindy Sheehan hospitalized

Published by Karl at 12:56 am under Sheehan

Ok, I dont like her. I disagree with her politics, motives and her anti semitism.

But I certainly don’t wish her ill health.

Drudge is reporting she was hospitalized for exhaustion and dehydration. 

Sheehan Treated for Dehydration in Texas

Anti-war demonstrator Cindy Sheehan was hospitalized Friday evening for dehydration and exhaustion after fasting for more than a month and protesting earlier this week in 100-degree weather, friends and relatives said.

Sheehan was listed in stable condition at Providence Health Center in Waco. Brenda Mauk, a nursing supervisor, declined to release additional information.

Sheehan, 49, was hospitalized after friends picked her up Friday afternoon at the Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, where she arrived after spending several days in Seattle at the Veterans for Peace convention, said friend Tiffany Burns.

Sheehan, who has been on a liquid diet as part of the nationwide "Troops Home Fast" hunger strike, had been treated and released from a Seattle emergency room Thursday night. On doctors orders, she ate for the first time in about 37 days, Burns said.

Sheehan also underwent additional tests for uterine bleeding, her sister Dede Miller said.

Sheehan was to spend Friday night in the Waco hospital but planned to attend some war protest activities Saturday at the 5-acre lot she bought last month in Crawford, President Bush’s adopted hometown, about 20 miles from Waco.

Sheehan kicked off her summer war protest Sunday, the one-year anniversary of her first anti-war demonstration in Crawford that attracted more than 10,000 people over 26 days.

"She’s in good spirits, but she’s sad she can’t be at Camp Casey," Burns told The Associated Press, referring to the campsite named for her soldier son Casey who was killed in Iraq in 2004.

Well anyone with moderate amount of common sense knows that fasting is dangerous.  But the reports of her fasting (see Michelle Malkins site…) really left me wondering what she was thinking.

She was taking protien shakes, and Jamba Juice concoctions, Mochas with ice cream….how sensible was that?  I won’t second guess her, but a complete liquid diet has to be done with a great deal of care, and it appears she was not being careful enough.

Regardless I wish her well and hope she suffered no permanent harm, though the cynic in me also hopes she does not milk this for its emotional appeal.

It’s not like she ever has before…

4 Responses to “Cindy Sheehan hospitalized”

  1. Assorted Babble by Suzieon 12 Aug 2006 at 11:37 am

    Like you I hope no real permanent harm has been done, but I do think the brain was already affected prior to the fasting. Shame on me, I guess. Maybe Cynthia McKinney will go now to comfort Cindy, so they can both play actress to the cameras.
    I haven’t read the news today…which is unusual…this is first I have heard about it. Have you heard if she lost weigh? I thought I heard awhile back when McKinney had her last victory party….Cindy snuck some food from the table (pictured at Michelle’s at that time)……who the heck really knows what is really going on.  I just can’t imagine anyone truly going that long without eating…..it is not as if she has had a reality show….watching her ever move even though that would be right up her alley.

  2. bernieon 12 Aug 2006 at 2:13 pm

    Sorry, I do wish her harm.  In fact, she should be raped and tortured by her Islamic lovers and then beheaded, her body burned then dragged in the street.Wait, wait.  I don’t know what came over me.  Someone who encourages soldiers to desert during a time of war?  She should be burned before being beheaded, then her body dragged in the street. On the other, Muslim terrorists should be given military firing squads with no torture.  At least they do not pretend to be American Patriots.

  3. Johnon 14 Aug 2006 at 12:29 pm

     though the cynic in me also hopes she does not milk this for its emotional appeal.
    ============
    I agree.  She can now end her ill thought out fast.
    I do pray that the uterine bleeding isn’t serious.

  4. Karlon 14 Aug 2006 at 12:32 pm

    Bernie,

    I think it would be punishment enough to not let her have her jamba juice.

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