"Barbara Bush has undergone heart surgery"

[Staph]

Breaking on CNN.com -- no details yet.

ETA -- Story from KTRK in Houston
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=6685040

[shireen]

1. i hope she's OK

I know what many of us are thinking ... we can't help it. But let's rise above it and wish her well.

[Hissyspit]

2. You're right. I hope they fix her heart.

God knows it's in shitty condition.

[hlthe2b]

3. crickets.......

I want to wish her well, I really do. Let me work on it. :shrug: (Where'e the Dalai Lama and his lessons on forgiveness when you need him?)

[Skittles]

4. she has a heart?

THAT should be the story

[cabluedem]

8. Sure. Hers is just made of stone so they had to call a mason to operate. nt

[donheld]

22. Who knew?

:shrug:

[stevedeshazer]

5. Impossible.

[Deja Q]

6. Excellent. Maybe she'll no longer be heartless.

:shrug:

[rocktivity]

7. Did they give her one?

:eyes:
rocktivity

[malaise]

9. What a ridiculous report

Doctors had been tracking this hardening and determined they didn't want to wait, but it's not considered a drastic condition.

Former President George Bush's chief of staff Jean Becker described the surgery as "very routine."
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There is nothing routine about heart surgery for anyone her age.

[PCIntern]

11. They can't help but lie...

it helps them to keep in shape, as Joe Wilson told me personally!

[tridim]

10. She should probably eat more of her oats

[Binka]

13. DUZY!

LOL!

[Lint Head]

12. It's not relevant. Why should I waste my beautiful mind on something like her.

[malaise]

14. You have company

Me.

[dysfunctional press]

15. how is that possible?

unless perhaps it was to implant one. :shrug:

[Kaleva]

16. Hope the best for her.

[greenbriar]

17. she is a superficial lying name dropper. I am currently reading her memoirs she wrote in the 90's

and she is some piece of work

name dropping

glossing over details

talking about a certain ex-dem president (johnson) who stole from them while at a gathering at their "lovely little reception for friends"


god, she makes me want to puke

[UTUSN]

18. So Poppy will RETURN to his MISTRESS?!1

[Raine]

19. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

that seems kind of impossible ... the heart thing. :shrug:

[bdamomma]

20. and then again we have Dick with a mechanical heart.

[CLANG]

21. Wouldn't they want to do exploratory surgery first, to make sure she had a heart?

[undeterred]

23. Exploratory?

To see if they can find that small hardened empty organ?

[LeftyMom]

24. Initial screenings were negative.

Further testing will be needed to conclusively rule out the presence of a heart.