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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFox News: Mitch McConnell's bruised hands, lips likely common skin condition, dermatologists say
Dermatologists say the 78-year-old Senate majority leaders black-and-blue bruises and bandaged hands are likely a common condition called senile purpura.
Your skin just naturally becomes more fragile as you age, Dr. Doris Day, a Manhattan-based dermatologist, told The Post.
I think its just a bruise a solid good bruise, she said.
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Fenton also agreed that the condition appears to be senile purpura and he wondered further whether McConnells bruises resulted from a recent attempt to draw blood.
https://www.foxnews.com/health/mitch-mcconnells-bruised-skin-condition-dermatologists
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I might be wrong but McConnell's left hand sure looks like pulmonary edema.
Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)soothsayer
(38,601 posts)uriel1972
(4,261 posts)Newest Reality
(12,712 posts)uriel1972
(4,261 posts)He must be starving...
PatSeg
(47,419 posts)then McConnell would just say that. Being evasive just makes it more suspicious.
LiberalArkie
(15,715 posts)chia
(2,244 posts)Beachnutt
(7,321 posts)bdamomma
(63,846 posts)what goes around comes around.
Rich Mitch needs to meet his fate.
DonaldsRump
(7,715 posts)Here's her website: https://dorisdaymd.com/
MuseRider
(34,108 posts)At 66. That is NOT what this is. Lol.
sunnybrook
(1,156 posts)Is this real? Que sera sera
CountAllVotes
(20,868 posts)Damned cooties!
Eating him up!
Sad.
LisaL
(44,973 posts)Why is it senile?
uriel1972
(4,261 posts)SharonClark
(10,014 posts)se·nile
/ˈsēˌnīl,ˈsenīl/
adjective
(of a person) having or showing the weaknesses or diseases of old age, especially a loss of mental faculties.
dragonlady
(3,577 posts)"senile" and "senator" are derived from the same Latin word, senex (old).
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)If it was a common condition, we wouldnt even be discussing it. We would have all seen it hundreds of times.
Theres nothing common about his black hands.
Botany
(70,501 posts)BTW I saw hands like that when my dad was in home hospice.
Solly Mack
(90,764 posts)Snort
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)upper lip.
Thekaspervote
(32,762 posts)Hugin
(33,135 posts)No need for expertise or experience here.
( BTW... on your signature quote. )
Hugin
(33,135 posts)His left hand had an obvious IV wound covered with a bandage and swelling on the knuckles.
BannonsLiver
(16,370 posts)Thats not a dermatological ailment.
OAITW r.2.0
(24,467 posts)I wonder what a solid bad bruise would look like?
Hugin
(33,135 posts)Here are a few more 'solid good bruises'.
My Pet Orangutan
(9,246 posts)Liberal In Texas
(13,550 posts)He is unclean!
Shun him!
Cast Him Out!
DFW
(54,370 posts)They said that if you are having emotional issues, bad blood can turn your face colors, but if it's your hands, it's a sure sign that you've been drinking too much of it.
VA_Jill
(9,966 posts)This nurse doesn't buy that. Maybe the hands, but not the mouth. Someone paid two RepubliCON dermatologists to say that.
Botany
(70,501 posts)Last edited Mon Oct 26, 2020, 01:49 PM - Edit history (1)
... his lips sure looks like lowered O2 blood levels.
But then again I know more about oak trees.
The_REAL_Ecumenist
(721 posts)to the secondary effects of moderate to severe cardiopulmonary disease, the congestive form in particular?! If there are others here on DU who're either clinicians, family &/OR friends of the poor souls unlucky enough to have to attempt to hold onto life eyeteeth, fingertips & feet in an earnest, though all to sadly mute battle with late stage heart disease, congestive heart failure in particular, raise your hand. if you've noted his "lippy color", in that "edgy blue gray mauve" for months, if not years & "holla at ya gurl" because if, like me, you've ever been even slightly believably accused of being lots of things, S.T.U.P.I.D. is, most likely, NOT one of them.
Those of us who've either undergone this horrific journey, have had to stand by & watch the inevitably terminal course of disease, IN SPITE of medical interventions &/or clinicians who've applied those same interventions, therapies &/or surgical courses, only to see patient after patient, either slowly or speedily lose abilities due to secondary issues like aphasia, circulation related dementias, secondary organ damage, (i.e., renal failure, losing limbs due to claudication if not complete collapse of circulation to the hands, feet, toes & /or fingers, strokes & their secondary effects, etc.
Who knew that there was a type of senile purpura that's morphologically identical to the most notable effects of Congestive Heart Disease...
Vinca
(50,269 posts)You don't get IVs for being old and bruising easily.