Posted on 05/26/2020 10:43:35 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Rush seemed to be describing today the typical stop-start pattern of modern chemotherapy, but also hinting at having a dire prognosis. Although lung cancer is considered treatable, medicine does not regard its current therapies as offering a cure. Statistically, more than half of all newly diagnosed lung cancer patients are dead within a year.
The same was heard here. His legs swelled to such an extreme as to cause severe pain and difficulty in walking.
Unable to listen to RUSH every day, ecstatic when able to do so. There is no one on the horizon who has this man’s instinct, with the ability to stress a point so expertly. His targets are hit more often than not.
LONG LIVE RUSH!
What a memory you have!
I forgot to mention that the MSM doesn’t even bother to open a thesaurus to alter the verbiage.
Its strictly cut and paste to the teleprompter of the day’s montage talking points. Its so obvious.
It is actually quite scary because I think 20 minutes of news a day from one channel, if that much, is all the average voter gets to form a general opinion of how they’ll vote.
Wipe out student loans, minimum guaranteed income, more stimulus checks etc. Free money. Sigh.
I had a friend - who had never smoked, btw - who only discovered she had lung cancer when her back began to hurt because the cancer had spread and a tumor was growing into her spine. She had surgery and chemo/radiation but she died 6 months later.
Cancer does indeed suck.
Amen!!
Whatever he’s taking, he’s not losing his hair, so that is a plus.
MIRACLES HAPPEN...you just HAVE TO PRAY.
I’m so sorry. What did he have the sct for?
I had AML (flt3 mutation) and had an allo. My sister was my donor.
Did he use his own cells or donor? I can’t even imagine how difficult this May be for you. How is his sct holding? Have they tried a DLI?
Going thru the sct process and trying to bounce back is the hardest thing I’ve been thru. My life is no where close to where it was. I can no longer work and am home 98% of the time.
A neighbor was diagnosed with 4th stage esophageal cancer and was gone in a year.
Palliative care is supportive care for comfort. Than can be used for various reasons such as when I was under palliative care. The unit could not control my pain, so they brought palliative care in to help me.
Early, he sounded awful. Eventually, he got up to speed.
My wife and I always travel to the NC mountains every year late in the fall. Part of the experience I always look forward to is being able to stream Rush and listen while traveling.
I listen at work, but sometimes it’s hard to focus on what he is saying with all the stuff happening around me. I look forward to traveling with him again this fall.
My guess it is closer to 6 months. 6 months might be optimistic. Pray that is not the case. With many cancers, when the end comes, it does so quickly.
While understandable, many posters don’t quite understand palliative care. Pallative care is treatment for a cancer for which has no current cure.
I’m a good example. I was diagnosed with Stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer with bone mets in September 2014.
There is no cure, so the treatment i am getting is considered “pallative”.
Pallative care treats the symptoms, and a particular treatment is used until it no longer prevents the progression of the cancer and then you move on to something else.
Fortunately for me, I have been an extremely good responder to the second level of androgen deprivation therapy. There are a lot more options once my current treatment no longer works, including many potential clinical trials, but that could be many years down the road; and maybe not.
When I heard rush say the following it grabbed my attention as it sounded like he was not going to last much longer. Especially when there was a noticeable pause between the words “months” and “years”.
“So that, no doubt, bought us some time. Don’t know how much. But my intention… As I said back then, my intention is to be here as often as I can. My attitude is this, and the reality is, the day is gonna come where I’m not gonna be able to be here. I don’t know when that is — and I’m hoping that it is months, years.”
I think he sounds strong. But he did say he’s glad when he wakes up alive each day.
It’s an illusion. I think doing his show pumps him up.
He said some days he’s so weak he can barely walk.
While understandable, many posters don’t quite understand palliative care. Pallative care is treatment for a cancer for which has no current cure.
I’m a good example. I was diagnosed with Stage 4 metastatic prostate cancer with bone mets in September 2014.
There is no cure, so the treatment I am getting is considered “pallative”.
Pallative care treats the symptoms, and a particular treatment is used until it no longer prevents the progression of the cancer and then you move on to something else. It can also include using medication to control pain.
Fortunately for me, I have been an extremely good responder to the second level of androgen deprivation therapy. There are a lot more options once my current treatment no longer works, including many potential clinical trials, but that could be many years down the road; and maybe not.
‘Because he’s a cigar smoker, and this sounds like an aggressive cancer, I’m going to guess it’s esophageal.’
how many cigars a day...? plenty of guys in their late sixties go through one or two a day, without obvious deleterious effects...
no one.
but thankfully he started a wave.
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