Bypass Surgery Left Koch With Wild Visions

Ed Koch just loves his moments in the sun. A week after the former mayor was sharing about cursing out New Yorkers heckling him in the grocery store, last night he was going off about his wild hallucinations at Columbia Pres while recovering from his recent quadruple bypass surgery. Koch told a crowd at the 92nd Street Y Monday, ”I thought I was captured by Japanese terrorists...When they cut off my thumbs, I knew it wasn’t real because there was no blood and no pain. I was daydreaming. I apologize to the Japanese. I know they’re great allies. I’m only telling you what I experienced.” CityRoom says Koch also mentions the terrorists spoke to him with a Yiddish accent. It sounds like if you ask the Columbia doctor's "how he's doing" in terms of showing his gratitude for the intensive surgery, they'd say pretty well. Koch is taking his 20 doctors out to dinner at Peter Luger Steak House in Williamsburg tonight. (One declined because he's Kosher.) As for the 72 nurses and technicians who aided him, they got the gift of an obligatory read with Koch sending them one of the 16 books he's written.

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By Billy Parker in News on September 16, 2009 2:31 PM

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NannyState

Now we know what he'll be muttering in his nursing home bed someday...

Mr Mel

Ed Koch was a Sergeant in the army, the only thing he could have been in charge of was his squad, maybe 8 or 10 guys.

ANGRYGOD11

I know he was only a sergeant. That's the weird part. As the Nazis kept very detailed records, Sergeant Koch really only had to take complaints from victims to arrest the badguys, remove them from office and restore stolen property. It was more paperwork than policework.

nomnomnom

I was watching channel 7 this morning and they were showing Bloomberg and Koch pressing the flesh with voters. Passers by shook Boombie's hand, but nobody shook Ed's. And as each person passed by, Koch would start lifting his hand to shake, but nobody stopped to actually shake his hand. Sad.

Outter Burrougher

I love that he apologized to the Japanese for his med-induced dreams!

longacre

When will Jimmy Carter speak out against Ed Koch's implicit racism against Yiddish-speaking Japanese terrorists?

Mr. Shankly

It seems drugs and pump head make for a nice trip.

ANGRYGOD11

Interesting visions as Ed Koch did his military service in WW2 Europe, not in the Pacific. After the war, he was in charge of de-Nazifying Bavaria.