I am honestly curious why everybody is so certain that someone is dying because of a picture of his hand, when the obvious explanation is that he got a bruise there, as elderly people do, and he did a bad job covering it, as vain and incompetent people do
I think it’s a number of reasons honestly. One of them is the uncharitable wishful thinking. They want something bad to happen to him. On the other hand (!) though there are legitimate reasons to think something else is going on.
He had those red spots on his hand a while back, he has this pooling in his ankles, he’s had covered marks on his hands before, and most particularly, his doctors have regularly lied (or at least heavily misled people) at his direction several times.
There’s this thing called pupura and it is - as you say - something that elderly people get on their hands. It can result in small red spots or much larger and quite alarming bruises and marks. By itself it doesn’t mean that much, but if it is viewed as a symptom along with the pooling in ankles…
… it really is apparently quite a common set of symptoms for either really sustained heart failure or significant liver damage. Obviously it could be nothing of the sort and what his doctor is telling us could be accurate, but these aren’t ludicrous diagnoses given those symptoms.
Personally, I think it’s worth commenting on that along with this mix of symptoms, he’s also been talking recently about whether he’d get into heaven. I mean quite apart from me personally finding that a bizarrely childish thing to think about, to me it seems telling.
My personal conclusion (not a medical expert, just wanted to get a sense of medical opinion on these symptoms), particularly after the venous insufficiency diagnosis, is that he is not super well (he is 80 after all), that his body is failing and he’s thinking about his legacy and mortality.
Whether that means he’ll pop off tomorrow or if he’ll live for another decade is way way way beyond my total lack of expertise or pay grade.
Lots of hoping going on.
People have a case of Internet Brain and spend too much time online