Disaster - Updates
UPDATE 16: Channel 10 reporting from the hospital: "he'll live".
UPDATE 17: Something about "relieving pressure" on the brain. The @$^% Channel 10 feed cut out again.
UPDATE 18: YNet has a little more. Original reports were of a brainstem hemorrhage, which presumably would have been critical (?). The bleeding was not in the brainstem, and this is apparently a very good thing.
UPDATE 19: More political updates: commentators are confident in Ehud Olmert's abilities to win over the public. They aren't sure why they're confident, but it has something to do with the... er... unique way that Israelis approach their politicians.
UPDATE 20: Channel 10: "We'd all like Sharon to completely pull through and return to politics, but it's time to say this: that's wrong"
UPDATE 21: The makings of a scandal: "why wasn’t the Prime Minister flown to the hospital... they were convinced that driving would get him to the hospital faster... why was there confusion as to what hospital to take him [the closer hospital or the hospital that had treated his other stroke recently]?... the symptoms were very severe, but this wasn’t recognized at first... they thought he was just feeling bad… it was in fact extremely critical"
UDPATE 22: Terrible news is tempering the euphoria of a couple minutes that Sharon would likely live. Half of Sharon's body is paralyzed, he is having trouble speaking, and the prognosis for a full recovery is very poor.
UPDATE 23: Ehud Olmert's home is being transformed into a 'sterile zone' - structures are being put up to block the view into the house and jeeps are rolling in for consultations.
UPDATE 17: Something about "relieving pressure" on the brain. The @$^% Channel 10 feed cut out again.
UPDATE 18: YNet has a little more. Original reports were of a brainstem hemorrhage, which presumably would have been critical (?). The bleeding was not in the brainstem, and this is apparently a very good thing.
UPDATE 19: More political updates: commentators are confident in Ehud Olmert's abilities to win over the public. They aren't sure why they're confident, but it has something to do with the... er... unique way that Israelis approach their politicians.
UPDATE 20: Channel 10: "We'd all like Sharon to completely pull through and return to politics, but it's time to say this: that's wrong"
UPDATE 21: The makings of a scandal: "why wasn’t the Prime Minister flown to the hospital... they were convinced that driving would get him to the hospital faster... why was there confusion as to what hospital to take him [the closer hospital or the hospital that had treated his other stroke recently]?... the symptoms were very severe, but this wasn’t recognized at first... they thought he was just feeling bad… it was in fact extremely critical"
UDPATE 22: Terrible news is tempering the euphoria of a couple minutes that Sharon would likely live. Half of Sharon's body is paralyzed, he is having trouble speaking, and the prognosis for a full recovery is very poor.
UPDATE 23: Ehud Olmert's home is being transformed into a 'sterile zone' - structures are being put up to block the view into the house and jeeps are rolling in for consultations.
