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If you go back and have a look at the “form of heart disease common among men in his age group” it’s fairly rapidly progressing coronary arterial plaque. Two-plus years ago it was 133, and it certainly hasn’t gone down since. Especially given his weight, diet, and sedentary habits.
Heart attack or stroke? Maybe. No real telling.
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I don’t believe that. I don’t see how it could possibly leak with so many heads inserted.
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I appreciate your reminding me here about the rules re speculative comments, because I’m tired and forgetful and this is good housekeeping for the bbs that I really ought to remember. Thank you! 
At the age of 81, my own father had a full psychiatric evaluation as a prerequisite for his entry into an assisted living facility. Lo and behold, something I alone had speculated for years came to light as bonafide, medically-based fact.
There’s no way I can adequately explain how truly odd my childhood was, when I’d challenge my dad’s facts–and he did seem to have an entire unique set of his own facts, semi-detached from reality. My other family members were in denial (extremely common in patriarchal Chinese households esp. of a certain era).
As a grownup, I now walk around with a particular set of alarm bells in my head. When those ring occasionally, I try hard to ask myself what it is that I am actually seeing. My childhood has made me a lifelong skeptic, even of stuff I see before me with my own two eyes.
One would think that people in charge of the White House, with the best interests of the United States and its people, would long ago have stepped in and demanded a psych eval of Drumpf, but alas, the constellation of useful idiot, Russian tool with a boatload of compromat, and disaster capitalism has proved either too potent a gravy train, or too politically impossible for any person acting in good faith to protect USians. At this point, May 2020, I don’t even know if there are any people acting in good faith in the White House cabinet, TBH.
ETA:
This is the weirdest dang opinion piece I have read in months. I don’t quite agree but sheeesh!
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Are you a supertaster? I’m not. I also took chloroquine to prevent malaria on a trip to the middle east about that long ago and I don’t recall the stuff being appreciably more bitter than many other things.
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I suspect in an attempt to win the next election, his team has him on chlorpromazine and told him it was Hydroxychloriquine. Chlorpromazine is used to treat psychosis. Putting him on it is a kind of “Hail Mary Pass”.
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Someone mentioned that there would be a blood test, and he’s trying to figure out how to cheat on it.
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I wish to gawd he was taking hydrogen chloride
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Lots of us need multi-part physicals. Mine usually have the doctor poking around with a stethoscope for the first one and checking anything else that needs in-person checking, then giving me an order form for blood tests, then having a followup exam to discuss the results. This year I’m assuming we’ll do the followup by phone instead of in person. And then there’s the colonoscopy, which is obviously a separate part, and if I need x-rays or some kind of cardiac test or whatever that’s also separate.
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