Fox News: Mitch McConnell's bruised hands, lips likely common skin condition, dermatologists say
Dermatologists say the 78-year-old Senate majority leader’s 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 it’s 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 McConnell’s 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.
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No need for expertise or experience here. 
( BTW... 
on your signature quote. )
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...
