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N.Y. Gov. Not Improving After Surgery
Feb 21 3:34 PM US/Eastern
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By CANDICE CHOI
Associated Press Writer
ALBANY, N.Y.
Gov. George Pataki was transferred to a New York City hospital Tuesday because he was showing no improvement five days after surgeons removed his appendix.
Pataki's intestines aren't functioning and he is being given water and nutrients intravenously, said Dr. Wiji Ratnathicam, a surgeon at Hudson Valley Hospital Center, where the governor had been treated before the transfer.
"He's essentially in the same condition that he has been in for the past few days," said Pataki spokesman David Catalfamo. "It's obviously a situation that needs to be corrected."
Pataki, 60, checked himself into Hudson Valley Medical Center early Thursday complaining of severe abdominal pain. His appendix, which had begun to rupture, was removed during emergency surgery.
The governor was initially to be released Saturday, but he was still showing no improvement Tuesday, so he was transferred to New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan where doctors have access to more resources, Catalfamo said.
Pataki was alert and in good spirits, Catalfamo said. The three-term Republican governor is considering a run president in 2008.
Fellow Republican Gov. Ernie Fletcher of Kentucky also remained hospitalized Tuesday after contracting a blood infection while recovering from gallbladder surgery last week. The bacteria in Fletcher's blood was moderately resistant to antibiotics, but treatment seems to be working, doctors said.
In Connecticut, another Republican governor, M. Jodi Rell, was involved in a car accident Tuesday morning but escaped injury. The governor's driver and the teenager whose vehicle hit the car's driver's side were also uninjured, authorities said.
N.Y. Gov. Not Improving After Surgery
Feb 21 3:34 PM US/Eastern
Email this story
By CANDICE CHOI
Associated Press Writer
ALBANY, N.Y.
Gov. George Pataki was transferred to a New York City hospital Tuesday because he was showing no improvement five days after surgeons removed his appendix.
Pataki's intestines aren't functioning and he is being given water and nutrients intravenously, said Dr. Wiji Ratnathicam, a surgeon at Hudson Valley Hospital Center, where the governor had been treated before the transfer.
"He's essentially in the same condition that he has been in for the past few days," said Pataki spokesman David Catalfamo. "It's obviously a situation that needs to be corrected."
Pataki, 60, checked himself into Hudson Valley Medical Center early Thursday complaining of severe abdominal pain. His appendix, which had begun to rupture, was removed during emergency surgery.
The governor was initially to be released Saturday, but he was still showing no improvement Tuesday, so he was transferred to New York Presbyterian Hospital in Manhattan where doctors have access to more resources, Catalfamo said.
Pataki was alert and in good spirits, Catalfamo said. The three-term Republican governor is considering a run president in 2008.
Fellow Republican Gov. Ernie Fletcher of Kentucky also remained hospitalized Tuesday after contracting a blood infection while recovering from gallbladder surgery last week. The bacteria in Fletcher's blood was moderately resistant to antibiotics, but treatment seems to be working, doctors said.
In Connecticut, another Republican governor, M. Jodi Rell, was involved in a car accident Tuesday morning but escaped injury. The governor's driver and the teenager whose vehicle hit the car's driver's side were also uninjured, authorities said.