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Thread ID: 99168 2009-04-22 11:21:00 Anybody heard how Steven Hawkings is doing? R2x1 (4628) PC World Chat
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767556 2009-04-22 11:21:00 I heard he had been admitted to hospital a few days ago in some haste, but nothing further.
Has anybody got a link to his progress?
R2x1 (4628)
767557 2009-04-22 11:23:00 www.msnbc.msn.com


Hawking set to recover from chest infection
Cosmologist hospitalized for illness he'd been suffering for weeks

LONDON - The family of physicist Stephen Hawking expects him to recover fully from a chest infection that has left him hospitalized, Cambridge University said Tuesday.
bob_doe_nz (92)
767558 2009-04-22 11:25:00 Thanks. R2x1 (4628)
767559 2009-04-22 11:26:00 news.bbc.co.uk
If he makes it to 3 score and 10 in 3 years he would have had a good innings considering he has been crook since he was 21.
prefect (6291)
767560 2009-04-22 12:33:00 Brain the size of a planet... johcar (6283)
767561 2009-04-22 14:19:00 If he makes it to 3 score and 10 in 3 years he would have had a good innings considering he has been crook since he was 21.

Especially considering the prognosis with most MNDs is 3 - 5 years from diagnosis to death.

Having said that, things like a chest infection can take you out real fast with MND, MS or HD - and I would think that he is at high risk of aspirating food or saliva as his swallowing mechanisms must be compromised. What they are calling a chest infection might be aspiration pneumonia.
Deane F (8204)
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