President Umaru Yar’Adua left the Intensive Care Unit of the King-Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia five days ago, and is recuperating under the watchful eyes of the medical team attached to him, Daily Sun learnt yesterday.

Although, he is still screened from public glare, a source at the Abuja seat of power said he is making a steady improvement and may break his silence by Friday this week.

There was no elaboration on the nature of the speech he would make, but Daily Sun findings indicated that, it is to thaw the ice on the high level concern and apprehension amongst his supporters and loyalists in government following persistent demands for his resignation, and the jostlings for his replacement.

“We have made it clear that now that his health condition is improving, his voice should be heard to dispel rumours of his death,” a source said. The speech on Friday is also designed to have the added advantage of taking the sails out of the winds of proponents of his resignation, and reassure Nigerians that their president would soon return “to continue the good works he has been doing.”

Friday will make it exactly 16 days since he was admitted into the hospital.
In spite of certain claims by some top government officials, only Yar’Adua’s wife, Turai, and the nation’s Ambassador to Saudi Arabia, who was also his deputy when he was Katsina governor, Alhaji Garba Aminchi, had so far been allowed access to him.

A female Nigerian nurse from Plateau State at the hospital has served as the rallying point in not just his medicare, but had facilitated effective liaison with the duo at all times. The nurse (names withheld) has been a senior hand at the hospital for close to a decade.

The president’s silence even in the face of the national uproar and rumours of his death, was on the advice of his medical team, who feared that his heart was too weak to withstand the pressures of state duties of any kind. The source, therefore, explained that it was unthinkable for his wife, Turai to have advised against his resignation as reported in the media.

“I can assure you that the man was in the dark as to developments in Nigeria. There was a careful and deliberate effort to insulate him from all pressures of the state. How can the woman now be advising him not to resign when all attention was focused on his health and survival? Feelers we are getting from the hospital is that the man has shown high optimism to continue in office. Of course, you know he has to be given a clean bill by his doctors and as soon as that is got, he will be back to his desk.”

The president’s men at the Aso villa seat of power are, however, worried by the poor information flow, which led to all kinds of rumours on the state of his health, and even back-pedaled the several meetings on his succession.

According to the source, after the initial announcement of his trip to the holy city for medical attention, there were no follow ups on further developments. This led to rumours and eventual scheming for his resignation and replacement.

Dismissing the current tension in the country as contrived, it was learnt that Yar’Adua’s men were holding the group of politicians and pro-democracy activists (G 56) who last week publicly demanded for his resignation responsible for the tension.

The imminent crackdown
Believing that those scheming against President Yar’Adua have been unkind to him, there is an underground plot of compiling and forwarding the names of serving officials who have been part of the jostlings to him when and if he returns.

So far, the president is yet to be briefed on the issue because of the veil thrown around him.
“I am not speaking for the president, but I can assure you that he will act whenever he returns. Some people have actually betrayed him: It is unbelievable how people can switch camps without notice and begin to battle someone that has been their benefactor. I pray the man returns in very good health and you will see what will happen. There is a particular man from his zone. I can’t believe what I heard he has been talking and doing,” the source said.

Vice-President Goodluck Jonathan
Although, some of the president’s adversaries have been criticing him for not ceding some powers to his Deputy, Goodluck Jonathan before travelling to Saudi Arabia, Daily Sun learnt that Jonathan is unfazed by the promptings and has been carrying on as usual, without betraying any emotion. Indeed, he has come under intense pressure from many quarters to buckle under and assert himself. So far, he has not lent himself to any of the groups seeking the president’s removal.

“In fact, Yar’Adua is lucky to have that man as his deputy. Can you imagine what would have happened, especially the confusion that would engulf the nation if the vice president is the type that is over ambitious,” the source added.

Story, story

Oh! Lord my God, I thank thee for restoreth the health of Umaru Yar'aduah. Amen.

Today is friday and the silence is still deafening, or maybe it is nextweek friday.

Let's see how this liar will break anything, not just silence:

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I just woke up to read this idiotic piece dished out to Nigerians. First, let me say, that beyond all reasonable doubt that if the diagnosis and the muddled up information dished out by the demons in PDP are true, then Mr. Yar'dua is not coming back to Nigeria, at least NOT on his feet.

Please do not get me wrong, do not mistake my take as being cold hearted or see me as a woman without African compassion in her. In fact I feel all these because I was once in the shoes of Mrs Yar'dua. Not that my own man had his kind of influence or money, but I loved him with all my heart all the same.

OK, look at this, the man is not able to speak or he is inaudible if he does. No mam/sir, the man cannot speak at all. The man is on a ventilator, he is intubated to secure the airway because someone did not have the presence of mind to intubate him, secure his airway, hyperventilate him en route to Saudi Arabia, so he SUFFERED ANOXIC NEURO DAMAGE. It takes only 3mins and at best 5 mins for any one to suffer irreversible brain damage without oxygen. So, his fool of a doctor putting him on oxygen via nasal cannula will only give the man nose bleed without making much difference. . Doctors flown in from Germany and America will not make a difference.

The man had a cascade of chemical activities when his heart failed or should I say when he suffered vascular collapse in Abuja. These chemical reactions will open the gates for toxic reactions hence his systemic collapse. It takes only a couple of minutes, 8 mins precisely or may be a little longer in some strange people for the chemical to bring down the whole system. In that case, he will be in a vegetative state .

What is happening now is that they have put him on life support, he can neither talk or blink, he is in what we call CATATONIC STATE, with only the severely compromised brain ticking away. In that case , his algorithm will be very erratic on the monitor, They can give him all the epi. in the world and it will not make a difference.

I am almost sure the man is on life support. I want to assume he also has a trach. They will do that to access his lungs to see if miracle can happen as soon as he arrived in the hospital because his airway would have been compromised by the time he got to the hospital. Where we cannot get a line into a patient, we go for O/S, and that is we go through the the trachea to get the lungs filled with oxygen. Sometime, the man will be artificially kept alive as long as his heart is still registering on the monitor, no matter how poor his algorithm may be. In that case, he will be dead and alive at the same time. However, we do keep them on to see if they will make a miraculous come back. There are some things, indeed a lot of things medicine cannot explain. One of which is the phenomenon of the COME BACK KIDS. as we call them. We keep them on as long as per family request until the register a PEA on the monitor and then they go away forever. Those moments are so surreal. So, what is Madam President is doing now is hoping that the man will make a miraculous come back. I am surprised Gov saraki is part of this caper because he is before anything else a medical professional who from all indications does not know what is on in our world anymore. The man will speak to the nation? common guys, this guy ain't speaking to no one but his creator. He cannot speak because he has tubes in his throat or though his nasal septum. Actually he has more than that. let me tell you guys what he has:

1. FOLEY CATH: That is a tube going through his penis to his bladder to drain urine into a urine bag for measurement. The essence of it is to see his urine osmolality and to measure the kidney function. We want to see at least 30 ml of urine per hour. In his case, it is not likely because the reports say his kidneys are gone. Poor guy. besides, we do not want him to void on himself so that we do not have issues of skin break down from the ammonia in the urine.

2. RECTAL TUBE: that is the one that will collect all the feces if at all. That is to maintain hygiene. We also want to see the color, size, viscosity of the feces. It tells a lot. That is besides the fact that he is in ICU or IMU, nurses on those wards are not known to tolerate an incontinent patient. Besides, you do not want to accidentally dislodge a tube because all the alarms will go off at the same time. I once rotated to IMCU and the noise from the monitors almost drove me to drink. I do not drink at all.

3. TRACHEOSTOMY: That is meant to be part of his breathing tubes which will be connected to a ventilator. because the lungs are crappy now, am sure his secretions will be suctioned for him so that he does not drown in his own fluids.

4. G or J TUBe: That is to maintain nutrition for him and to see his if he can make a miraculous come back.

5. OROPHARYNGEAL TUBES: connected to the ventilator. helps him to breathe.

6. NASO GASTRIC TUBE: Not likely because the oro is already in, but may be they were not able to get in the oro tube and since he did not have a facial or cranial wound, he may be a candidate for the naso tube. If his his oral airway had been compromised before he got to Saudi Arabia. The dumb doctor did not intubate him, his airway would have become occluded and so we go through the nasal septum.

7. CENTRAL LINE: that is to medicate him, draw labs which will be done round the clock at least B. I.D to see his chemistry. I hope they gave him the triple lumen so that if he cannot tolerate a g-tube, he will be getting parentral nutrition. His eyes may be wide open which is kind of creepy or it may be shut. If it is my facility, we will close the eyes so that there is no corneal damage. If the eyes are left open, his people will ignorantly think he is looking at them and some times families think they see the man blinking. yeah right, The rise and fall of the chest may look even tot he uninitiated, they may think his respiration is even and unlabored, but it is the ventilator working. The man may no longer be taking spontaneous respiration. it is the machines breathing for him. The family may think other wise.

Is there something am missing? please remind me in your reply. The point is Mrs Yar'dua might be going through the stages of grief which is understandable. Look, when mine was in the throes of death, I walked in the icy rain of Washington, DC and I did not feel it. I went into denial. I almost gambled away my license. I went to Dr Yamamoto, my daughter's instructor when she rotated to Cardiology. He is the 5th cardiologist in the USA. I asked him to do a miracle. I wept like a baby because I saw him slipping into death.

Stages of grief are 4:

1. DENIAL : no it is not happening. He will come back. Lightening will strike and all of you will be shamed. I feel her pain.

2. ANGER: You feel betrayed by the patient. You blame him for being sick. You cuss at him and at every one who tells you anything contrary to what you want to hear.

3. BARGAINING; you attempt to bargain with God and get all the prayer warriors to pray to God to give you a second chance.

4. ACCEPTANCE: You accept the party is over and allow the man to go. I feel her pain. She will get there. I went through it. I cussed at mine on some occasions, I cried and rocked him like a baby in the next minute. I dropped 4 dress sizes. I went into deep sadness. I blamed every body, lashed at him while he was sick. Tried all the hospitals all over the world. Got through to a friend practicing in South Africa for a heart transplant and blew all my savings including my childrens' money hoping for a miracle. he eventually expired and I almost suffered a melt down. Now, guys, having said that, I have zero respect to all those fools in Nigeria who have what we call the FOOT MOUTH DISEASE. Seriously, there is a disease like that, but IT IS FOUND IN COWS. Those folks in the national assembly are mentally below cows in the realm of things.

May God help us, and am genuinely praying, but it is not likely the man will come back. That is however, based on the premise that all what we have read is true.

Source: http://www.saharareporters.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4510:-news-from-saudi-arabia-a-blog-on-yaraduas-condition-&catid=69:gbloggers&Itemid=195