Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fractured three ribs after falling in her Supreme Court office Wednesday night, the Supreme Court said in a statement.
According to the statement, Ginsburg, 85, experienced discomfort after going home following the fall and was admitted to George Washington University Thursday morning for observation and treatment.
As one of the court's older members, Ginsburg's health has become the subject of much attention in recent years.
In November 2014, she underwent a heart procedure to have a stent placed in her right coronary artery, and in 2009, she was treated for early stages of pancreatic cancer.
In 1999, just six years after being sworn in as an associate justice, Ginsburg successfully underwent surgery to treat colon cancer.
Ginsburg, who has served on the high court since 1993, is an icon among progressives.
Oh, boy. I wonder who Trump would nominate if he gets a shot at a 3rd justice for the Supreme Court?
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Democrats are going to spend the 2020 primary hotly debating whether to pursue minor differences in a center-left agenda that, even if they could pass it, the Supreme Court will strike down as a far-right super-legislature.
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Oof! I cracked a rib once along with tearing an intercostal muscle. Crap was painful as all get-out. Coughing and sneezing were absolutely terrifying.
I can't even imagine what three would be like, with being elderly ta'boot. Hopefully this doesn't end up depressing her breathing too much, leading to pneumonia.
"Some people never go crazy. What truly horrible lives they must lead." ~Charles Bukowski
Doctor CamNC4Me wrote:https://www.cnn.com/2018/11/08/politics/ruth-bader-ginsburg-fractured-ribs-hospitalized/index.html
Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg fractured three ribs after falling in her Supreme Court office Wednesday night, the Supreme Court said in a statement.
According to the statement, Ginsburg, 85, experienced discomfort after going home following the fall and was admitted to George Washington University Thursday morning for observation and treatment.
As one of the court's older members, Ginsburg's health has become the subject of much attention in recent years.
In November 2014, she underwent a heart procedure to have a stent placed in her right coronary artery, and in 2009, she was treated for early stages of pancreatic cancer.
In 1999, just six years after being sworn in as an associate justice, Ginsburg successfully underwent surgery to treat colon cancer.
Ginsburg, who has served on the high court since 1993, is an icon among progressives.
Oh, boy. I wonder who Trump would nominate if he gets a shot at a 3rd justice for the Supreme Court?
- Doc
I know right? he is already busy with the cornucopia of federal judge nominees that ste forthcoming for this much friendlier Senate...Ruth Bader Ginsburg would be the polish on the judicial silver platter the Dems are serving to Trump courts already.
Seek freedom and become captive of your desires...seek discipline and find your liberty I can tell if a person is judgmental just by looking at them what is chaos to the fly is normal to the spider - morticia addams If you're not upsetting idiots, you might be an idiot. - Ted Nugent
Cancer nodules formed from her fall. Barrett Watch in full swing as Dems suddenly find religion again.
- Doc
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.
Two nodules in the lower lobe of her left lung were discovered incidentally during tests she received while being treated for rib fractures sustained in a fall last month. Both nodules were found to be malignant during an initial evaluation.
Don't make me do this again. I was sitting here all chill and whatnot.
;-)
Failure is not falling down but refusing to get up.
Chinese Proverb
D'oh! You're right, of course. I read the article and for some reason I came away with the notion that the fractures contributed to her cancer nodules.
I stand corrected!
Googling a bit here is her typical workout routine:
In the face of madness, rationality has no power - Xiao Wang, US historiographer, 2287 AD.
Every record...falsified, every book rewritten...every statue...has been renamed or torn down, every date...altered...the process is continuing...minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which the Ideology is always right.