Posted on 02/14/2020 5:15:30 PM PST by Morgana
Rush Limbaugh was moved to tears by a caller’s offer to donate one of his own lungs to the host’s battle against cancer during Wednesday’s show.
“And when you’re done with me, if I could talk to Mr. Snerdley briefly,” the caller said at the end of a brief conversation, prompting a mildly confused “uh, okay, I’m done with you,” from Limbaugh. Minutes later, “America’s Anchorman” was fighting back tears.
“I just asked Snerdley, ‘What did that guy want who was through talking to me and wanted to talk to you?'” Limbaugh said after an off-air conversation with producer James “Bo Snerdley” Golden during a break. “Snerdley did not drop a beat: ‘He wanted to donate a lung, if you wanted one.'” The video clip, tweeted by the Washington Examiner, captures the legendary host’s candid reaction. “Oh, wow… That would have been the last thing that I… I thought he was trying to grease the skids to call-in again,” Limbaugh said in a voice choked with emotion. “You all just continue to stop me dead in my tracks.”
Limbaugh has been overwhelmed with support since the announcement of his stage 4 lung cancer diagnosis. “I continue to get e-mails, and flowers, and cards… It’s– It’s voluminous. And it is so… touching,” he said, soldiering on through his tears. “This is why I said last Friday… how lucky I am.”
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He also got a pig valve during open heart surgery
From your freeper name I’m guessing it was you... are you the person with the loving wonderful daughter?
didn’t Mickey Mantle get a liver transplant AFTER he had liver cancer?
Dude...
I think liberals deep down respect Rush. They might hate his guts, but they respect him, and it's better to be feared than to be hated and become a chump like George W. Bush.
I misted up when I heard it too
Unfortunately its not just a lung issue
It’s so sad...I’m ambivalent when I listen
Torn being between enjoying it and feeling guilty knowing how he must feel
It just sucks
I remember a few weeks ago wondering how long Rush would do this
Listener more or less since late 88
Re post 4. You mean like in China?
Yes he did, but he wasn’t supposed to.
Guess who he was.
Geez, Fungi, couldn’t you give us a clue...?
When are they going to make lungs from 3-D printers? Would that even work?
I’m thinking it’s because he can’t walk very far. He was able to stand to receive his award and salute Trump.
Actually Rush said very definitely in one of his shows years ago after that heart scare in Hawaii...that he is self insured. Last I heard his contract paid him $57 million a year...the price of a life savings procedure is no object for him... he just refuses to deal with the bureaucracy of insurance etc.
As far as the extreme age issue - in Nevada, with Humana Medicare it is 1 and younger and 70 and older. I was told that if a person is on the transplant waiting list he is removed on his 70th birthday. I am not currently in need or one and don’t anticipate one...so I looked no further and just accepted that what I was told as accurate.
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