Al-Qaeda leader Bin Laden 'dead'. Again.

[Ed Jewett]

To follow-up on the above (my curiosity having been triggered), I found three web entries that addressed bin Laden's health. Caveat lector.

The first is here: http://www.abovetopsecret.com/forum/thread702774/pg1

The second is here: http://www.doctorzebra.com/prez/a_binladen.htm

Doctor Zebra is unidentified, says he is a real doctor, and some careful perusal of the entire site might warrant a good guess as to who he is.

A third is here: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/224981.php

Here is the search at History Commons' 9/11 Timeline using the words "bin Laden health" (8 events found, one of which is irrelevant to the question, being a search glitch, the last noting Robert Baer in late 2009).

This photo seems obviously PhotoShopped. What I am looking for is a photo of the man with an obvious fistula. A fistula is something a dialysis pateint would go to great ends to protect from trauma, infection, etc.

Here's a short list of six complications during hemodialysis, one of which at least correlates with observations noted above as well as my own experience of having to lie down as a result of arrhythmias when I had untreated atrial fibrillation.

"Various problems are related to vascular access in patients on hemodialysis and to abdominal catheters in patients using continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD). These vascular access complications are similar to those seen in any patient with a vascular surgical procedure (eg, bleeding, local or disseminated intravascular infections [DIC], vessel [graft] occlusion). The native peripheral vascular system is also affected with higher rates of amputation and revascularization procedures, and a peritoneal dialysis catheter subjects patients to the risks of peritonitis and local infection, because the catheter acts as a foreign body and provides a portal of entry for pathogens from the external environment."

Here is a seven-page pdf on the complications of dialysis;pay attention to figure 7.5 and compare to credible photographs.

Here is another good article on complications.

Here are the 1, 2 and 5-year survival rates for someone on dialysis: 77.8%, 62.9% and 9%.