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mnmoderatedem

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Fri Nov 15, 2013, 02:33 PM Nov 2013

what a Dick.


"When I came out from under the anesthetic after the transplant, I was euphoric," Cheney, who underwent the life-saving procedure last year, told Larry King in an interview slated to air Thursday on Ora TV. "I’d been given the gift of additional lives, additional years of life. For the family of the donor, they’d just been [through] some terrible tragedy, they’d lost a family member."

Cheney, who was "near death" when he received a heart pump in 2011 that kept him alive until the transplant, said he does not know the identity of the donor or the circumstances surrounding his death.

"The way I think of it from a psychological standpoint is that it’s my new heart, not someone else’s old heart," Cheney continued. "And I always thank the donor, generically thank donors, for the gift that I’ve been given, but I don’t spend time wondering who had it, what they’d done, what kind of person."


http://news.yahoo.com/cheney-doesnt-know-heart-donor-182242884.html
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what a Dick. (Original Post) mnmoderatedem Nov 2013 OP
He's waaaay past Faux pas Nov 2013 #1
It makes you wonder if that guy he shot in the face was his blood type? Hmmm.....nt okaawhatever Nov 2013 #2
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