It’s All Coming Together
Unbiased citizens following Hillary Clinton’s recent campaign must have increasing and unsettling concerns about her health. Several respected doctors including Dr. Drew Pinsky and ophthalmologist Dr. Marc Werner, and others (myself included), have expressed concerns that Hillary Clinton shows signs of severe neurological disease. Since there has been a monumental effort on the part of the Clinton campaign to hide, cover up, explain away and directly deceive the American public on this issue, it’s been a bit difficult to pin it all down. However, today’s events at the September 11 Memorial, and the response that followed it, seem to help bring all of the pieces together. In my posts of August 18 (Fit to Serve?), September 2 (Huff and Puff and Blow It Away), and September 6 (Worrisome), I voiced a concern that Mrs. Clinton has serious neurological deficits that render her unfit to serve as POTUS. Because of the fresnel glasses she wore at the Benghazi hearings, I knew, as a clinical neuroscientist, that these special glasses were being used to treat an oculomotor palsy or paralysis. This condition is NOT a trivial one, and it made me suspect that she may have had a serious neurological event, perhaps even a brain stem stroke. It IS known that a couple of months prior to the hearings, she suffered thrombosis of the transverse sinus. This condition is a blood clot formed in a major vein that drains blood from the brain. It can progress in an number of different ways, one of which is to produce a brain stem stroke. When it does so, it is by the mechanism of venous stasis and increased post capillary pressure. Alternatively, once the thrombosis was diagnosed, she was treated with anticoagulants, which can, in and of themselves, result in intracranial bleeding, sometimes in the brain stem as well. Now, over the past 3 or 4 weeks, Mrs. Clinton has been having terrible coughing fits, captured numerous times on video. These have been ascribed to “allergies”, but this excuse is not very plausible in the age of the availability of very effective medical management of allergies. In my opinion, the more likely explanation is a dysfunctional gag reflex which is frequently caused by a brain stem stroke. That brings me to yesterday’s episode.
Documented yesterday on video, Mrs. Clinton, after leaving inexplicably early from the September Eleventh Commemoration, clearly collapses while trying to enter her limousine. In fact she nearly falls forward onto her face. Only the quick reaction by several attendants saved her from catastrophe! She then is literally dragged in to the vehicle. This brings me to my first point of concern: WHY WASN’T THIS WOMAN TAKEN TO A HOSPITAL? Taking her to Chelsea’s apartment was NOT appropriate treatment for anyone having a syncopal attack (fainting spell), let alone a presidential candidate. The campaign MUST have been so concerned about the “optics” of a hospital visit at this point in the campaign that they would RISK HER LIFE to avoid harmful appearances. This supports, of course, the suspicion that the campaign is hiding a very important health issue, perhaps a brain stem stroke.
•No explanation was given regarding this event and silence followed for over an hour. Then, a spokesman told us that she was “overheated”. In seventy degree weather, and in the SHADE, no less! When, as the hours went on, it became apparent that that explanation wouldn’t wash, we were later told that she is suffering from pneumonia. This brings me to my next point of concern. We are not yet in the cold and flu season. It would be very unusual for a healthy woman in her 60’s and, presumably, up-to-date on her pneumonia vaccines, in early September to have infectious pneumonia. But there is another way to get pneumonia: it’s called ASPIRATION PNEUMONIA and it occurs when saliva and upper airway secretions inadvertently enter the lungs and cause an infection there. It occurs often in patients that have an altered gag reflex. And, although there are a number of mechanisms by which an individual can develop an abnormal gag reflex, a cerebrovascular accident, or stroke, especially in the brain stem, is a very important one.
So, the case for the diagnosis of a brain stem stroke gets stronger.
My next point of concern involves a curious occurrence that was also caught, inadvertently, on yesterday’s video. The video findings are VERY quick, and I admit that I missed it initially. However, a friend pointed it out to me, and under close inspection the incident is definitely there: as Hillary stumbles, a small object falls out of her right pant leg. When it hits the pavement there is a district “chink” sound, indicating that it’s metal. (Readers, you may have to watch the video several times and focus on her right leg to convince yourselves that it’s real [I certainly did] but if you study it closely I believe you’ll agree that it is, indeed, real). The piece of metal falling out of her pant leg, though visible, is not large. So, the question is, what IS it? One theory is that it’s a piece of metal that fell off some type of leg brace that she’s wearing under her pants. IF that’s what it is, that would fit very nicely with the diagnosis of brain stem stroke. Strokes of this nature often result in what is termed “long tract signs” producing weakness or unsteadiness in the legs. Conditions that would be helped considerably by bracing. Now, is this really the case? Is she really wearing a leg brace? Although a definitive answer rests in the hands of her medical team, let’s try to discern a LIKELY answer: If she does indeed have long tract neurological deficits, they are not the type of problem that comes and goes. So if a person needed braces for this reason, we would expect that they would need them when ever walking or standing on their own. And, if that person were female and wanted to keep the braces secret, she’d have to stop, of necessity, wearing dresses. To investigate this possibility further I went back and looked at Hillary’s nomination acceptance speech. Can you guess what I found? That’s right! I found pants! Coincidence? Maybe. So, I then perused other recent photos as well. Specifically, I looked through a collection of 74 photographs compiled recently by Harper’s Bazaar Magazine which were presented to illustrate Hillary Clinton’s “iconic sense of style.” Can you guess again what I found? Right again! There are NO recent pictures of Hillary walking or standing unsupported while wearing a dress! This finding becomes all the more glaring in light of the fact that she has a history of frequently wearing dresses! Go back to older photos and you’ll see what I mean. So, I believe that this is FURTHER support for the diagnosis of neurological dysfunction arising from a brain stem stroke.
In conclusion, many snippets of information and video findings are all coming together to indicate that Hillary Rodham Clinton, in my opinion, is suffering from serious neurological disease, and, as such, is not healthy enough to serve our nation ably as Commander-In-Chief. I think the time has come for her to stop misleading the electorate and “come clean” on this vital matter.