PM Shows Movement on Left Side for First Time
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“Prime Minister Ariel Sharon showed movement on his left side Tuesday, for the first time since his massive stroke and brain hemorrhage six days ago, senior physicians at Hadassah University Hospital said Tuesday evening.”
“The damage to Sharon’s brain is believed to be concentrated in those areas of the right hemisphere which control the left side of his body.”
“In addition to responses on his left side, movements on Sharon’s right side were more intense Tuesday and his breathing was more independent, hospital director Professor Shlomo Mor-Yosef told reporters Tuesday evening.”
“‘This sign [the limb movement] together with slight elevation of his blood pressure as a reaction to the pain are signs of some activity of his brain.’”
“Umansky said that the prime minister had not yet opened his eyes. He said it was ‘still too soon to talk about the cognitive issue now,’ and that it would take ‘a number of days more’ before the damage from the stroke could be assessed.”
“The doctors said that it would be several days before it became clear whether the prime minister had suffered any cognitive damage or paralysis on the left side of his body.”
Omri Sharon Thanks Public for Prayers, Doctors for Their Care
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“Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has ‘stepped five meters away from the precipice’ and is “no longer in immediate danger,” said one of his anesthesiologists, Dr. Yoram Weiss, in a briefing outside Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem on Tuesday evening.”
“Hadassah Medical Organization (HMO) director-general Prof. Shlomo Mor-Yosef added that while he continues to be in serious condition, he moved his left arm for the first time in reaction to a pain stimulus, and the movements of his right arm and right leg were stronger on Tuesday than they were on Monday, when the prime minister’s anesthesia drugs were first gradually reduced to bring him out of an induced coma.”
“All vital signs – such as pulse, blood pressure, urine production and intracranial pressure – remain steady and within the normal range, said Mor-Yosef – but he and Weiss said it would be impossible to assess the extent of his cognitive abilities for several days or even weeks.”
“Sharon’s independent movement on the left side of his body represented an improvement of his condition from Monday, when he first moved his right hand and leg ‘slightly but significantly’ in response to pain stimulus. “
“The left side of his body is controlled by the right hemisphere of the brain, which is where Sharon experienced hemorrhaging during the end of last week.”
Source: Doctors Knew of PM’s Brain Disease After First Stroke
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“Physicians at Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem knew during Prime Minister Ariel Sharon’s first hospitalization in December that he suffered from cerebral amyloid angiopathy (CAA), a disease of the blood vessels in the brain, a medical source told Haaretz on Tuesday.”
“Prescribing anticoagulant drugs to patients with CAA could increase their chances of suffering a cerebral hemorrhage, like the one Sharon experienced last week. In spite of this, the source said, Sharon received the blood thinners.”
“The diagnosis ocurred after examining CT scans Sharon underwent, according to testimony presented Monday to Haaretz by a medical source involved in the treatment of the prime minister.”
“Ron Krumer, Hadassah’s external affairs director, said in response ‘We are busy treating the prime minister and fighting to save his life. We are not dealing with anything else.'”
“The doctor who provided the testimony defined the administering of the blood-thinning medication after the first stroke as a ‘screw up.'”
Oh, how typical: “I make mistake!” When treating a Head of State, there’s NO MARGIN FOR ERROR! MB
Health Ministry May Investigate Sharon’s Treatment
The Fictitious ‘Third Way’, by Caroline Glick
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“What legacy has Ariel Sharon left Israel, and what will be the long-term impact of that legacy on Israel? Since the prime minister was stricken by a stroke last week columnists and commentators have been clamoring to describe Sharon and to define the impact of his years in power on Israel and the Middle East. Disturbingly, most of the commentators have based their views of Sharon’s tenure in office on a myth.”
“The myth of Sharon and his leadership is that over the past two years he redefined the center of Israeli politics.”
“It is true that Sharon restructured the political map of Israel over the past two years. But he did not do so by blazing a new path, with a new vision for Israeli politics, society and security. Sharon redefined Israel’s political map by embracing the Israeli Left. And in so doing, as one top military official dolefully put it to me in November,’Sharon brought post-Zionism into the mainstream of Israeli public discourse.'”