Walesa Gets Heart Device

HOUSTON, Feb 29 (Reuters) - Doctors on Friday said they implanted a pacemaker-defibrillator in former Polish President Lech Walesa's chest to help his weakened heart.

"He tolerated the procedure very, very well. He was in very good spirits. He woke up from anesthesia making jokes," said Walesa's cardiologist Guillermo Torre.

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Let's hope it was successful. But the nice practice here - they only keep the patient (even the Nobel prize winner) 24 hrs after open heart surgery (to avoid ridiculously high insurance costs). You have to be healthy to be sick in this country.

Hopefully he'll keep being as strong & humorous as he seems :) wish it works very well for him!! prolonging life is a beautiful desired :D

He did not have an open heart surgery.

I am not so sure that he was a good thing for Poland. I was in Gdańsk during the Solidarity years when he was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize and most academics believed it was too good an honour for such a man. Certainly his eight or nine children do what they want in Gdańsk simply based upon their father's rather over inflated past

My father-in-law says he was only leader because he was small enough to throw over the fence....

Jealous?