Posted on 04/03/2024 5:46:11 PM PDT by Bonemaker
Democratic Rep. Raúl Grijalva of Arizona has been diagnosed with cancer, he announced Tuesday.
“A few weeks ago, I sought medical treatment for a persistent cough which was initially diagnosed as pneumonia. After further testing and imaging, my physician discovered that I have cancer,” he said in a statement.
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My youngest son, at 48 was diagnosed with cancerous polyps in 2019. They did a double re-section, taking quite a bit of his colon, along with about 70 lymph nodes, and they did it all laparoscopically. He went through six months of chemo, and was recently give his 5-year clearance.
On a different note, my oldest son has been nursing his cat, who is about 19 years old, for liver cancer for the past three years. She's been on and off kitty-chemo for all that time, and the darn cat doesn't look or act sick. She's caught 3 mice in his flat these past couple of months. She had her recent blood test, and her condition remains stable. She's amazing.
The husband of my long-time friend, and his twin sister had the BRCA test at least 20 years ago. The sister was told by her doctor, that it wasn't a question of if she'd get breast cancer, it was a question of when. She eventually had a double mastectomy. Her twin, my friend's husband, about 10-11 years ago, was diagnosed with a rare cancer...Nasopharyngeal carcinoma and cancer of the larynx, which have a high death rate. It is very rare in the U.S. and occurs more in Southeast Asia. He was stationed in Pakistan with the Air Force during the Vietnam War, but Pakistan isn't a part of that region.
He went through intensive radiation treatments of his face and throat, and had to have a feeding tube put in to be nourished. His wife made sure she gave him food through the tube that would keep his strength up. I'm not sure if he had chemo as well. It's been well over five years for him since he received his treatments, and he's been cleared. The radiation changed his whole facial structure, and it destroyed his salivary glands. He has no spit, and has to drink plenty of fluids when he eats anything. He applied for VA benefits for the cancer a while back. At first they turned him down. He appealed his case, and was eventually approved. Must be there were other Vietnam Vets, that were diagnosed with one or both of that type of cancer. He and his twin sister were born in 1944 or 1945, so they will be 80 or 81 this December. His sister has yet to get cancer. Strange world huh?
Thanks so much for your kind words and prayers. You will be in my prayers as well. I am grateful that I have my two sons, and my brother's family to spend time with. I'll be heading to my niece's home on April 16th, to stay for a week with my sister-in-law (she lives with them), while my niece, her husband and three of their four kids (the oldest is in his second year of college), will be driving to North Carolina for a soccer tournament for one of their twin girls. I'm looking forward to it.
RummyChick...and like the dummy I am, I posted the P.S., then realized I’d never posted the original message yet. Excuse the error.
You have stories to tell…
Raúl Grijalva was a useless rubber stamp for Pelosi. Always willing to be interviewed talking the party line. He always put la Raza first.
He’s also an alcoholic. Many stories about him smelling of alcohol in congressional meetings, etc. Of course, if I looked like him, I’d be drunk all day too.
My theory is that you never get rid of cancer. It just lies in wait and then rears its ugly head in another part of your body later. 🤬
He was accused of sexual harassment and his defense was that he was only drunk!
He is drunk pretty much all the time.
Funny you should say that. I worked in uniform in New York State's prison system for 25 years. I'm a female, and only worked in male prisons. Ten years as an officer. 15 years as a Sergeant. Been retired for 20. Plenty of stories from that part of my life.
I just had surgery for lung cancer.
With the current technology and video assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) they removed over half my left lung and I was home and driving in two days after the surgery.
They then analyzed the cancer and identified specific antigens in my blood as a marker. So I just have a blood test every three months.
And your theory is unfortunately usually right. My oldest son’s ex-girlfriend’s mother had reached her five years after breast cancer. They never took her breasts during her first bout, probably just did a lumpectomy. And when she reached that five years, the cancer returned. She had both breasts removed, went to treatments. Did the reconstructive surgery, but one section would not heal. The cancer spread. She died one week before my sister. I managed to get home to make a visit to the hospital, but she was unresponsive as happens so often at the end. She was such a lovely woman, and had not been retired very long. She was 59, 10 years younger than my sister.
This is the jerk that called for a national boycott of his own state when Arizona passed a law requiring law enforcement to ask to request ID from suspected illegal immigrants. He is the worst Congressman Az has to offer. Sorry he has cancer, but cancer does not make a bad opportunistic person a good person. he’ll still be a bad person after he is well
the POS needs to repent for all the damage he has done
Cancer has grown a malignant Grijalva.
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