Disaster - Israeli Morning Updates
UPDATE 33: (8:10pm PST) Channel 10 has finally started their morning news show. Latest medical information: "the surgery is over... the doctors are going to give a press conference soon... but things do not look good... they aren't even waiting for him to recover, because that will take a couple of days... I don't know what that means - whether there is permanent damage or not..." And, in the context of the medical bungling that occured in trying to get him to a hospital (he was driven rather than flown to a hospital farther rather than closer to him): "he question is not whether Sharon will suffer permanent and irreversible damage, but how extensive that permanent and irreversible damage will be."
UPDATE 34: (8:30pm PST) Channel 10: "we know that he's still under... we know that they've finished the surgery... what we don't know is whether there has been any brain damage". It looks likely that decision to drive him to Hadassah hospital was responsible for addition pressure and blood impacting his brain.
UPDATE 35: (8:40pm PST) "The situation is no beter than it was three hours ago."
UPDATE 36: (9:00pm PST) CNN finally cut away from pretty-boy Anderson Cooper emoting into hour #9 with miners' relatives - to tell viewers that the extended length of Sharon's surgery is a sign that bleeding was worse than originally expected. This in contrast to the expert that Channel 10 has on right now, who says that nothing can be read into the length of the surgery. Oh good - he's back to emoting!
UPDATE 37: (9:05pm PST) Press conference. MORE SURGERY! "... brain operations are lengthy... the Prime Minister is anesthetized and on a respirator... surgery for several more others... still bleeding in the head... serious situation"
UPDATE 38: (9:06pm PST) CNN is swarming the Hadassah director. He's going to repeat what we just heard.
UPDATE 39: (9:07pm PST) CNN's Dr. Gupta just described the PM's situation as "dire", invoking the phrase "uncontrollable bleeding". He didn't directly blame the condition on the anti-clotting blood thinners that Sharon has been taking, but it seems like another example of what we've been hearing all day - that prescribing that medication to the PM was nothing short of criminally stupid (and by hearing, we mean reading - since IRIS blog was saying that five and a half hours before Hebrew outlets got it).
UPDATE 40: (9:09pm PST) Channel 10: "once bleeding in the brain does start, if a person is on these kinds of blood-thinning pills that Sharon is on, there is nothing that the body can do to defend itself."
UPDATE 41: (9:12pm PST) Channel 10: "anchor: doctor, the situation has become critical? doctor: yes... [5 second pause] anchor (not knowing what to say) yes"
UPDATE 34: (8:30pm PST) Channel 10: "we know that he's still under... we know that they've finished the surgery... what we don't know is whether there has been any brain damage". It looks likely that decision to drive him to Hadassah hospital was responsible for addition pressure and blood impacting his brain.
UPDATE 35: (8:40pm PST) "The situation is no beter than it was three hours ago."
UPDATE 36: (9:00pm PST) CNN finally cut away from pretty-boy Anderson Cooper emoting into hour #9 with miners' relatives - to tell viewers that the extended length of Sharon's surgery is a sign that bleeding was worse than originally expected. This in contrast to the expert that Channel 10 has on right now, who says that nothing can be read into the length of the surgery. Oh good - he's back to emoting!
UPDATE 37: (9:05pm PST) Press conference. MORE SURGERY! "... brain operations are lengthy... the Prime Minister is anesthetized and on a respirator... surgery for several more others... still bleeding in the head... serious situation"
UPDATE 38: (9:06pm PST) CNN is swarming the Hadassah director. He's going to repeat what we just heard.
UPDATE 39: (9:07pm PST) CNN's Dr. Gupta just described the PM's situation as "dire", invoking the phrase "uncontrollable bleeding". He didn't directly blame the condition on the anti-clotting blood thinners that Sharon has been taking, but it seems like another example of what we've been hearing all day - that prescribing that medication to the PM was nothing short of criminally stupid (and by hearing, we mean reading - since IRIS blog was saying that five and a half hours before Hebrew outlets got it).
UPDATE 40: (9:09pm PST) Channel 10: "once bleeding in the brain does start, if a person is on these kinds of blood-thinning pills that Sharon is on, there is nothing that the body can do to defend itself."
UPDATE 41: (9:12pm PST) Channel 10: "anchor: doctor, the situation has become critical? doctor: yes... [5 second pause] anchor (not knowing what to say) yes"
