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White House Correspondent Tweets His Heart Attack

Posted by samzenpus on from the dedication-to-the-job dept.

Tommy Christopher, who writes for mediate.com, has reporting in his blood, so much so that he livetweeted every part of his recent heart attack. "I gotta be me. Livetweeting my heart attack. Beat that!" and "This is not like the movies. Most deadpan heart attack evar. Still hurts even after the morphine," were among his updates as he was rushed to the hospital. Christopher is now in stable condition after recovering from emergency surgery.

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  1. Re:Tag article WHOCARES by Shikaku · · Score: 2, Insightful

    His heart?

    Yeah it would have been pretty idle during a heart attack.

    Oh wait you meant Slashdot category...

  2. Re:Sure, sounds like fun. by russotto · · Score: 1, Insightful

    All civilized societies expose their elderly in order to save resources for the next generation.

  3. Re:anyone can make snarky comments by arth1 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    With a 12-lead EKG, you can have 11 values of +-64 for each lead, which fits in 132 bytes of 7-bit ASCII, leaving 8 bytes for header identifying it as an EKG, plus the horisontal resolution (i.e. time for each measurement).

    To get more data, repeat.

  4. Beat that? Sadly yes by nbauman · · Score: 2, Insightful

    I realize that people are using humor to deal with their fears and discomfort over death, but there's no way to make this funny:

    December 17, 2009, 12:29 pm
    Announcing a Child’s Death on Twitter
    By LISA BELKIN
    http://parenting.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/tweeting-about-a-childs-death/

  5. Re:Sure, sounds like fun. by cusco · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Thanks, the same is true for Third World life expectancies today, but the average prole has no clue how to make sense of the statistics. My in-laws had 13 children, five of whom died before the age of three. If all of the remaining 8 live to be 80 years old that will still be an 'average' life expectancy of 49. The degree of mathematical illiteracy today is depressing.

    --
    "Think about how stupid the average person is. Now, realise that half of them are dumber than that." - George Carlin
  6. Re:Tweet! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Member posting AC: As someone who's 33, not overweight and suffered a heart attack (family curse, most men died of them), this is SCARY SHIT! When you feel one coming on, it's death knocking on your door. First, you are having a panic attack, the pain, and then perhaps your last breath. Think of it as dry form of drowning.

    1. If you feel one, start coughing and take aspirin. Call 911 immediately. And pray you live another day.

    2. Live a vegan lifestyle. Ya, it sucks balls. I miss being an omnivore. But you want to live right? Well, that's the price it will cost you. Eat the greens and STFU I tell myself.