4.5 JFK Medical HistoryNot A Playboy
Dishonorable and otherwise scum and profiteers have continually attempted to soil the memory of our honorable President John F. Kennedy, world revered, and also the person and beloved memory of his brother the former Attorney General of the United States and Presidential Candidate Senator Robert F. Kennedy, with stories and rumors and general trash talking of adulterous sexual misconducts in office. JFK's medical conditions have even been released showing the degree of pain he was in. I, myself, have been prescribed a similar back brace due to traumatic lower back vertebrae fracture coupled with acute lumbar sprain causing two operations for fistulectomies and resultant irreparable disc injury. There was constant and continual back spasms. Only morphine injections were effective in arresting most pain, which was temporary. I can personally testify someone with these type pains and physical injuries has no normal sex life for all intents and purposes. JFK also sustained injury from his US Navy service on the famous PT-109 in the most admirable service to his country and crew. It is shown medically he could not physically possibly have been this carousing adulterous playboy they "report" accusing him all these years adding trash to the filthy minds of their readers. I have another sequel about JFK RFK and MM (Marilyn Monroe) about these things that should shock the public with the epiphany reached. But let's look at the facts. Proving the ill health President Kennedy suffered, take a good look at the facts. Playboy? They should be ashamed terribly and run and hide and never show their faces again! Filthy dreamers from the imaginations of their own filthy hearts....
Holy Bible, Book of Jude
Jude 1:7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrha, and the cities about them in like manner, giving themselves over to fornication, and going after strange flesh, are set forth for an example, suffering the vengeance of eternal fire.
8 Likewise also these filthy dreamers defile the flesh, despise dominion, and speak evil of dignities.
I personally had a similar back injury in the same exact place L5-S1 as a traumatic fracture of the vertebrae which later permanently damaged the disc at the same place from the fracture causing misalignment. Two and half years in bed each time. To remove the disc, they will only perform the operation if the patient would rather die or commit suicide because of the chronic (24/7) pain. You get a 50-50 chance of surviving the operations as the Gil method is performed which is four, count them, four spinal fusions are performed creating a cage around the damaged disc then removed. I also was prescribed and had to wear the same type back brace as JFK. As well there are extreme back muscle spasms in the lumbar (lower back). A simple stubbing the toe can send you into a whirlwind of pain and spasms. JFK had two of these and was at that point of wishing death at the level of pain. Like I said before, no one in this condition has anything close to a traditional sex life and yet the scum say all this trash about his constant affairs and prostitutes and on and on. That was physically impossible as seen in the release of JFK medical history....
"John F. Kennedy – A Life of Back Pain & Hidden Illness
Posted on February 23, 2011 by Paul Hagen
http://www.vacupractor.com/famous-people/john-f-kennedy-back-pain/This post is the first in a series about famous and/or note worthy people that suffer from Back Pain. In our ongoing effort to educate America about back pain and help eliminate it, this series was inspired by a story we spotted on Hub Pages you can read here if you like: Presidents Back Pain Cured
John F. Kennedy’s medical records may shed some light on questions of the president’s character. Reviews of his records in recent years revealed that the president suffered from severe back pain and other numerous ailments, taking as many as eight medications a day to manage them. Kennedy, his aides, and his family kept this information hidden from the public in an attempt to project an image as a strong and powerful figure, in much the same way Franklin D. Roosevelt concealed the severity of his paralysis in the 1930s and 40s.
Kennedy’s back pain and other ailments clearly did not stand in the way of his political ambitions. He used his father’s connections to enlist in the Navy and keep his medical condition concealed from military physicians. While serving on Navy boats in the southwest Pacific, he slept with a plywood board under his mattress for back pain relief. During his 1960 presidential campaign, he was followed everywhere by an aide who carried a bag of “medical support.” Kennedy’s medical records remained closed for years following his death, apparently because his family worried they would tarnish his reputation as an honest political figure.
Due to his many ailments, a man of Kennedy’s health would not be able to survive today’s political climate, writes presidential biographer and New York Times political correspondent Richard Reeves. Kennedy suffered from Addison’s disease, a condition in which the adrenal glands produce insufficient hormones and which required increasing amounts of hydrocortisone and testosterone. Sickly since he was a boy, Kennedy was also frequently ill and suffered from severe fatigue and low weight. He became so ill that he was read the last rites three times in his life. Lifelong abdominal discomfort and fatigue may have been due to celiac disease, which is often associated with Addison’s.
What Was The True Source of Kennedy’s Back Pain
Though his back pain was rumored to have been caused by football injuries and war wounds, according to Reeves, however, those stories were untrue. Some reports indicate that Kennedy suffered from a degenerative disease of the lumbar spine, which caused a difference in the length of his legs, requiring him to wear a back brace and use crutches intermittently. Navy records show evidence of osteoporosis. Reporter Robert Dallek writes that steroid treatments Kennedy received for his intestinal ails as a youth may have contributed to both his Addison’s disease and his back problems. In a December 2002 article in the Atlantic Monthly, Dallek writes that in the 1930s and 40s, physicians did not realize the long-term effects of corticosteroids – specifically the suppression of normal adrenal function and the inducement of osteoporosis in the lower back. X-rays from the early 50s show compression fractures in Kennedy’s lower spine.
Kennedy Underwent High Risk Back Pain Surgery
In 1954, while Senator of Massachusetts, Kennedy underwent back surgery, which posed extreme risks due to his Addison’s disease, as his hormone treatments suppressed his immune system. According to Reeves, no one with Addison’s disease had ever previously survived traumatic surgery. But Kennedy said his back pain was so severe, he would rather die than live with the pain. His x-rays revealed that his fifth lumbar vertebra had collapsed, and he had become more dependent on his crutches. He survived the surgery, but was hospitalized for nine months afterward due to a urinary-tract infection and a transfusion reaction.
A report in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 1955 indicated he would have been incapacitated without the surgery, which consisted of a lumbo sacra fusion together with a sacroiliac fusion. Doctors hoped the fusions would strengthen his lower spine, but due to a possible infection, another operation had to be performed four months later to remove the metal plate that had been inserted into Kennedy’s spine.
The President Continues to Suffer from Back Pain & Other Ailments
The surgeries brought him no back pain relief. Throughout the 50s, Kennedy continued to suffer from his back pain and other ailments, including abdominal discomfort, high fevers, dehydration, high cholesterol, and difficulty sleeping. He could not bend forward or backward at all. Turning over in bed or sitting in a chair posed extreme difficulty. Kennedy continued to hide his condition from the public and denied reports of his Addison’s disease. During his presidency, he was under the regular care of an allergist, an endocrinologist, a gastroenterologist, an orthopedist, a urologist, and an internist/pharmacologist. He received back injections to make less reliant on his crutches, but his medical advisors feared they may be doing more harm than good and that he would eventually end up in a wheelchair.
Regular exercise therapy with an orthopedic surgeon began to ease his back spasms and increase his mobility, but it is unknown how his health issues would have progressed had he lived longer. Kennedy was killed in 1963 by Lee Harvey Oswald. Some believe that his chronic back problems ultimately contributed to his death: Kennedy was wearing his back brace when he was shot. The first bullet struck him in the neck, and his back brace held him upright and kept him in the path of Oswald’s second, fatal bullet to the head.
John F. Kennedy Deception or Exceptional Character?
Though some have criticized Kennedy for deceiving the public in order to advance his political career, Dallek notes that Kennedy refused to complain about his ailments and exhibited an extraordinary strength of will, enduring unspeakable pain and yet refusing to let his physical ailments interfere with his political duties.
References:
PBS.org: John F. Kennedy
“In J.F.K. File, Hidden Illness, Pain and Pills;” The New York Times
The Health and Medical History of President John Kennedy; Dr. Zebra
“The Medical Ordeals of JFK;” The Atlantic Monthly, December 2002 "
