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You know he's seriously worried about the Epstein stuff if he's announcing a health issue. Normally he's far too vain to admit even the slightest of health problems.
He's both too vain and not vein enough
Underrated comment
It just shows the sacrifices he's willing to make ~~for the nation~~ to save his own skin!
While that's one part, they had to say something because of that picture of his legs.
CVI can cause swelling like that and is sort of treatable, but at his age another common cause of that ankle edema is late stage heart failure. As in "probably wouldn't last term" late stage. And that rumour spreading would cause him major issues, like people spending more money on Vance than him.
All I read was "heart failure". I may need to talk to my doctor in 4 hours.
Congestive Heart Failure is super scary, but survivable. Shit, I did it. In my case it was caused by an irregular heart beat following open heart surgery.
My fluid retention was all in my chest though, not my legs. I couldn't lay down because it felt like I was drowning. (Because, thanks to the fluid, I was drowning.)
They pulled 4 liters of fluid off me every day for 7 days, then ran an electrocardioversion to fix the heart beat.
For those at home:
4 liters of fluid:
Electrocardioversion:
https://youtu.be/3nREFp_pU0o
They didn't have to say anything. He's had people call things adverse health conditions on the news before and ignored them.