And Yes She can Fly !!!
Posted on 05/26/2020 10:43:35 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
Mark would do best as a host two or three days per week with guest hosts and interviews.
He is a great interviewer and can showcase the best of conservatism as well as the ragged edges.
When Rush passes on, will the left be required to social distance at their celebrations?
I think this tweet — he mis-heard this — Rush said his doctors were amazed he could last 4 weeks on the treatment.
RE: It isn’t good news. This tweet:
https://twitter.com/larryschweikart/status/1265316960729878528?s=12
Well... he’s 69. I wanna see Rush go on forever too but the reality is the end was coming sooner rather than later regardless.
I’m praying for 5 more years myself to get through Trumps 2nd term.
I heard Rush say he “wished President Trump would stop punching down on Joe Scarborough.”
I thought Rush sounded a little tired.
Palliative care can be used with treatment to cure.
When Rush passes on, he will get a state funeral.
“””””I don’t know what his treatment plan is. But, palliative care doesn’t mean ‘hospice’. I was under palliative care after my stem cell transplant because I needed extra support to control my pain.””””””””””
My son had a stem cell transplant last year. He was on palliative care for a few months before that due to pain.
He is terminal now but doing experimental treatments.
Most people are on palliative care at the end but being on it does not necessarily mean you are in the last days.
“...as the show goes on, his voive is improving significantly.”
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Yes! I’m glad I’m not the only one who noticed that.
In the first half-hour of the show, his voice sounded somewhat weak.
Starting in the second half-hour and continuing throughout the show, his voice sounded strong....just like the old Rush.
Agreed. From when he started his radio show until now has been his day in the sun. Who will be “Rush” in 20 years is not for us to worry about. To quote Paul Simon the singer every generation throws a hero up the pop charts.
I think you misinterpreted.
His cancer is stage 4 which is effectively terminal.
Treatments are good and he can go for years if they work - but he’ll never be clear of cancer.
That’s what he meant by prolonging his life.
Chemo isn’t “palliative” care which he’s still on.
I agree with your post. My good friends wife had a small lump on her breast removed 10 years ago. 3 years ago she blew out her back picking up her infant son. Went to the Dr and they found cancer everywhere. Spine, lungs, liver and brain. Turns out they didn’t get all the cancer from her breast. They gave her weeks to live. She ended up living 2 years by instituting a brutal Kieto type diet. She was starving the cancer. Her cancer was actually shrinking, much to the surprise of her doctors. They moved from the west coast to the east coast and she neglected her diet for 2 weeks while getting this huge move situated. Her cancer came back with a vengence and killed her within a couple of weeks. You may be able to keep stage 4 cancer at bay but it will take something extreme like the diet she was using.
I thought he said he was in a clinical trial, but had to stop because he had a mutation that was also the cause of the cancer. He said the trial was working, but if he continued it his leg muscles would swell so much that he couldn't move, and it would cause blindness in his right eye.
So he stopped, and is now on some other kind of treatment.
-PJ
I know you all think that but you are sitting in billowing clouds of smoke. Why do you think you do not breathe it in? You do. Just like my beloved Dennis Prager, you don’t want to think that smoke is toxic or ever finds its way into your lungs. You breathe it on your own cigars and if you are indulging with others you are completed encased in a smoke filled environment.
I come from a huge dental family. I don’t even want to mention the other things that happen from actually “cooking” your mouth tissues. It just isn’t worth it.
He has said it is “advanced stage 4 lung cancer.” So it’s not esophageal or oral, although his cancer could certainly have already spread to or invaded those areas.
He also alluded to the cancer being an unusual diagnosis, so it’s likely not a common cancer (not small cell or adenocarcinoma), but might be a very aggressive sarcoma or mesothelioma, etc. Regardless, it has spread outside the primary site (presumably, the lung) to local structures and distant structures, lymph nodes, etc.
The overall general treatment is the same, varying only with the patient and pre-existing health limitations, specific cancer susceptibility to drugs and irradiation, and location and size of the tumor and metastases—the general plan is to ease the symptoms, stop the spread, reduce or stop the growth (size), treat the complications (infection, bleeding, loss of organ function, effect of drugs on heart, etc.), debulk the main tumor or large metastases by surgery, irradiation, or chemotherapy, eradicate small remnant tumor throughout the body if possible (put patient into remission), and replace the damaged/lost bone marrow stem cells.
I understood that he tried a very aggressive new therapy (we have to assume he was a test patient, and not a placebo control patient) but he couldn’t tolerate it, and had to quit it. So he’s back to existing therapies, and for stage 4, that’s not hopeful, and controlling his symptoms including pain (palliative care) while he seeks other options (chemo, surgery, irradiation, and lung transplant plus bone marrow and stem cell transplants, etc.). It’s all very grim and not hopeful, but the chance of survival, or at least meaningful life with a few years survival, is not zero. I wish him well.
There is no one as good as Rush, but Mark Steyn comes closest for me, with excellent wit, good delivery, and pleasant demeanor. Too many of Rush’s guest hosts are monotone or too strident in their deliveries and have the sense of humor of most liberals, that is, no humor.
I was listening the first hour, and he sounded weak. He got that second wind soon and was as forceful as ever. As a near-daily listener since 1990, starting right before his father passed away, I can’t imagine radio without Rush.
What he was saying was very concerning to me. His tribute to Catherine was wonderful but it must have been very tough lately for him to say all that. It’s understandable that he doesn’t want to reveal details of what he has and thereby rev up his enemies on the left, but to me it means the diagnosis is shockingly bad.
As others have said here, leftists will celebrate when he eventually leaves us. When I was a kid, even my mother, not a Kennedy fan to say the least, was in tears when JFK was assassinated. Now half our country is so hard hearted and evil-minded that they cheer when any person on the right passes.
Someday Rush will retire, and I do think Mark Steyn is a good person for that show. Would the EIB network even continue without Rush?
He's the only reason I turn on the radio.
I remember hearing at the beginning it was Stage IV Lung Cancer. One does not come back from that.
That’s exactly what I was wondering.
If he does listen to this. Hydroxychloroquine also kills cancer and is extremely effective. There is a procedure.
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