Ariel Sharon in Hospital

(IsraelNN.com) Prime Minister Ariel Sharon is undergoing surgery at this time. Hadassah Medical Center officials report the neurosurgery will take several hours and continue into the start of the Sabbath.

Following a Friday morning CT scan, doctors detected fluctuations in the prime minister's blood pressure and intracranial pressure, signaling cerebral hemorrhaging. Mr. Sharon was immediately rushed into surgery.

While the medical team remains optimistic, they are signaling the prime minister's condition has taken a turn for the worse.

I only have one to say about Sharon.

Time to pay the piper as$*ole

A deciple of Pat Robertson has spoken. Did you send your tribute to the **** yet?

'Pulsa denura' instigated against Sharon

Jul. 26, 2005 15:57 Reported by YAAKOV KATZ

Far-right activists instigated a pulsa denura - Aramaic for 'lashes of fire' - death curse against Prime Minister Ariel Sharon last Thursday night in an effort to thwart the upcoming disengagement plan.

The ceremony was held late Thursday night at the gravesite of Shlomo Ben-Yosef?, a Betar member who was hanged by the British in 1938 for firing on an Arab bus in protest of numerous attacks by Arabs on Jewish targets.

Ten rabbis and kabalists, including Yosef Dayan - who instigated the same curse several months prior to the assassination of former prime minister Yitzhak Rabin - assembled at the gravesite, which is located near Safed.

Fools come in all shapes and sizes.

Specialists at Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem met Sunday morning to discuss the condition and future treatment of Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, who was admitted to the hospital Wednesday evening after suffering a severe stroke and cerebral hemorrhage.

After their discussions, the doctors decided to send the prime minister for another CT scan. They were also to decide when to rouse Sharon from his medically induced coma.

Until the prime minister regains consciousness, it will be impossible to determine the extent to which his brain has been damaged.

Senior physicians not connected to the treatment of Sharon say his condition can now be defined as "a vegetative state." However, they stressed that the possibility of Sharon regaining consciousness cannot be ruled out, and some even said it is possible Sharon will recover some of his physical and mental functioning.

Based on the reports from Hadassah University Hospital, Ein Karem, "the implication is that Sharon is in a vegetative state," Dr. Avraham Lazri, a rehabilitation expert who is deputy hospital director and head of the brain injury department at the long-term care facility Reut, told Haaretz.

According to an intensive-care expert, "a patient after such a major stroke, who has been unconscious for so long and his condition remains serious and stable, is most likely in a vegetative state."

A vegetative state is defined as one in which a patient has a low level of consciousness and seems to be unaware of his surroundings. A vegetative state ranges in various degrees, including patients who breathe on their own with no help from a respirator. Patients maintain a sleep cycle, and may exhibit spontaneous movements that are of no functional significance. A response to pain stimuli, as Sharon has reportedly exhibited, is consistent with a vegetative state. "That is one of the things that distinguish a patient in a vegetative state from a state of deep coma," said Dr. Lazri.

Vegetative states are extremely hard for families to endure since such patients might open their eyes, laugh or shed tears - but despite all these encouraging signs they are still vegetative. "I tend to check every family report of a change or response. Usually I have to disappoint them," an intensive-care specialist told Haaretz.

Hadassah told Haaretz on Tuesday that Sharon remains unconscious, is breathing spontaneously with the help of a respirator, and there has been no change in his condition, which is still termed "serious and stable."

Lazri said he has encountered patients in Sharon's condition who fully regained consciousness, but "the frequency is low." Sharon's age, medical history and the severity of his stroke are not in his favor, he said, adding however that this case calls for careful assessment. "The tendency in the world is to wait six months from the time of the stroke to say whether or not someone will fully regain consciousness. You always have to be circumspect, because there may be exceptions."

Bennie will carpet bomb them.