Some are saying his condition is poor but stable. Haaretz reports:
Israel assured the Palestinian Authority on Thursday that PA Chairman Yasser Arafat will be permitted to return to the West Bank if he needs to go abroad for medical treatment.
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1. Jamie Irons:In my opinion, ‘e’s no longer among the living…
Or, as Chevy Chase used to say on SNL of Generalissimo Franco, he’s still dead.
Jamie Irons
Oct 28, 2004 - 8:50 am 2. Johan Amedeus Metesky:No, no, no. Generalissimo Francisco Franco still has a cold.
Oct 28, 2004 - 9:49 am 3. FredRum:CNN.com is reporting that Arafat is refusing his doctors’ recommendation that he go to Paris for treatment.
[Burns voice]
Excellent…
[/Burns voice]
Oct 28, 2004 - 10:20 am 4. MeTooThen:Um, no.
Arafat is still amongst the living.
The likelihood is that no matter what else ails him, Arafat has Parkinson’s disease, and with that goes a myriad of potential complications to any illness.
Fever alone in Parkinson’s patients can produce disabling encephalopathy, hallucinations, severe bradykinesia (slowing of movements) including but not limited to inability to swallow safely and effectively often leading to aspiration and pneumonia. And that’s just from a fever!
In reading the reports from JPost and HaAretz, the various Pali reports were that he was “sleeping”, “in a coma”, “awake but hallucinating”, etc.
Arafat was reported originally to have had a viral syndrome with vomiting, diarrhea, etc. Later it was reported that his interval worsening was secondary to a gall stone, and if true, Arafat probably has bad cholecystitis (inflammation of the gallbladder), which in the preantibiotic world was often lethal.
Either way his inability to keep his Parkinson’s meds down is also likely contributing to his reported worsening.
Nope, not dead yet.
Oct 28, 2004 - 10:44 am 5. rastajenk:Sounds like he’s got a bunch of bad goo going on. Forgive me, but I hope he suffers more than a little bit.
Oct 28, 2004 - 1:03 pm 6. Knucklehead:While I can certainly empathise with those who wish YA a lingering, painful death, I’d prefer expediance in this case. Faster, please!
Oct 28, 2004 - 4:02 pm 7. Mark Poling:Prediction: when The Human Toad finally croaks, the streets of Gaza will erupt in celebration, then erupt in bloodshed as the Palestinian body politic gets down to some truly grisly self-consumption and parasitic decay.
Oct 28, 2004 - 8:38 pm 8. M. Simon:His symptoms could also be the result of AIDS.
The “blood cancer” bit is a hint.
Oct 29, 2004 - 2:51 am