Posted on 12/08/2004 1:34:49 PM PST by Conservomax
WBZ'S David Brudnoy is saying good-bye to his friends. After living with AIDS for years, David’s cancer, merckle cell carcinoma has spread to his liver and kidneys and his prognosis at Mass General Hospital is not good.
All too often in the news business, its not good news we have to report and this is one of those stories. WBZ's Gary LaPierre had an extended conversation today with a very prominent member of our family here at WBZ, Dr. David Brudnoy.
David Brudnoy asked to have this conversation so that he, a nationally prominent radio talk show host, could say farewell to you... his listening public, his family.
Simply put and to the point, David Brudnoy is looking death straight in the eye today and is saying to his family... his listeners, I’m ready. It was very apparent when I stepped into David’s room at the Mass General today that one of the giant survivors of this sometimes very unforgiving business is talking to his family that’s you... for the last time.
10-years ago I talked to David, a mere skeleton of a man, fighting back from death by full-blown AIDS. This tough guy won.
A little more than a year ago, a deathbed struggle ensues again for David Brudnoy, merkel-cell carcinoma. He launched another 15 round battle with a rare deadly disease and won... until now. David told us today, he's losing this one. I asked him how its different this time.
David "it's gone below the waist. It’s in the liver and kidneys."
While at times, struggling a bit for the breath to speak, David Brudnoy is always, the open book and I couldn't help by ask why, while standing at deaths door he wants to share it all.
David “You go through a couple of days of that… more pain… pointless. No end.”
Gary: “What you are saying to continue would be just to continue your being for a few more days?”
David: “With morphine and a little oxygen and food. I am not starving myself. I am not asking my doctors to do anything illegal. I wish I could but they won't. I will make it through. My head is completely excepting of this. I am absolutely ready.”
David Brudnoy, as only David could do it, gets the chance to say his final farewells to the world.
David: “I think we in the media often times want everybody else to be frank about themselves but want to be covert about ourselves. My life is truly an open book.”
Gary: “It always has been.”
David: “It has been but more so as I contend with these diseases.”
So tonight, he'll be heard in a bed-side interview with WBZ's Gary LaPierre in what will be his final farewell.
All of us here at WBZ have David Brudnoy in our thoughts and prayers today.
I don't know about you,but I firmly believe in the concept
of Divine Forgiveness.If he makes his peace with God,he'll
be OK in God's eyes.
I have sympathy for innocent victims.
No matter how you slice it, a man who contracted AIDS by his own wilful and deliberate sin is not a hero. And the hanging question is how many others did he infect ?
I first listened to him around 1980, and he would go on about how great a place Provincetown was.
It took awhile to before I realized what P-town meant.
I recall a tv interview after his AIDS infection went public: He was asked about
being so intelligent, why didn't he practice "safe" sex.
He answered that he didn't know when he first contracted HIV, it could have been before the
whys and wherefores of the disease were known.
He always did great interviews with a wide range of authors. I bought a number of books that I
wouldn't have otherwise considered, if it wasn't for his show.
It's always been a pleasure to listen to him. Just knowing how little he thought of Clinton makes me smile.
Didn't Paul Sullivan,who is on later in the evening, just have surgery for a brain tumor?
I don't understand your rage because people are showing sympathy. I am pretty sure he has never in any way affected
my health.
Perhaps you are in the high risk category or are afraid you are.
I think people who love pedophiles are evil. I don't know if they are hardhearted or sick. I suppose it might depend if they have AIDS themselves. That would make them sick. I suppose infecting millions of Americans with AIDS would make them hardhearted.
I have no sympathy for those who push the homosexual agenda. They overreached and there are millions of us who noticed.
I used to listen to him before HIV took its toll. A smart guy with principles and though we had different views in certain areas, I considered him an honest guy and a gentleman.
I have no sympathy for those who push the homosexual agenda. He gets no trophy today.
Perhaps you are in the high risk category or are afraid you are.
Human beings are always in a high risk category when homosexuals spread their diseases.
What? Have you never sinned? And the hanging question is how many others did you injure by YOUR sin?
Are you saying that someone who has sinned can not be considered a hero?
If he has turned to God and asked forgiveness and put his faith in Jesus, then he is O.K., despite your misgivings...
I hate the sin that is taking this man's life. I pray he asks for forgiveness and redemption. I love him as a fellow human being. May God ease his last days, and use them to His glory.
[i]I think people who love pedophiles are evil.[/i]
Pedohilies are criminals, Homosexuals are not as much as you
wish they were.
I am not sure I even know anyone that is homosexual. I never
went out of my way worrying about it.
Many pedophiles are simply homosexuals running recruitment drives.
What does Herod have to do with this?
He reminds me of Yasser Arafat.
I'm amazed by the amount of feminine (and effeminate) sympathy offered for those who are notorious criminals or sinners after they reap the consequences of their sowing the whirlwind.
My sympathy lies with their innocent victims.
I have no sympathy for anyone who seduces and recruits another victim into the pit of homosexuality.
Yes, this is well put. I used to listen to David almost every night when he was on until midnight. He was followed by Bob Raleigh, and I loved him, too.
I'm happy for David that he survived the first major illness, to have another ten years. David always said he was not afraid to die and I believe him.
I assumed you had a Biblical cite to bolster your views. You do not.Your attitude converts no one. It only serves to make you feel self-righteous.
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