Posted on 02/16/2010 2:31:11 PM PST by ConservativeStatement
NEW YORK (AP) — Film critic Roger Ebert lost his ability to speak nearly four years ago, when he underwent a tracheostomy, a procedure that opens an airway through an incision in the windpipe, after surgery for cancer in his jaw.
In an interview in the new issue of Esquire magazine, the 67-year-old film critic for the Chicago Sun-Times uses pen and paper and text-to-speech computer software to communicate. He's developed a kind of rudimentary sign language, and he sometimes draws letters with his finger on the palm of his hand.
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My wife had bone cancer of the jaw. The surgeons removed over 50% of her jaw and put in a temporary titanium structure that looked a lot like strap metal.
A year later, they removed a bone from her lower leg and refashioned a new jawbone and last year she received dental implants to regain some chewing on that side of her mouth.
She will never be the same again, but every day I am thankful for how God and skilled doctors restored her to a vestige of what she had once been. It has been six years and so far, no return of cancer.
If you read his Twitter feed, you might develop a dislike. It’s all “teabaggers” and “Palin is the devil.”
Marxism tries to suck the life out of free people. Guess it is only fair that it sucks the life out of it’s proponents.
May God bless and keep you both and I will pray that it NEVER returns.
He's developed a kind of rudimentary sign language, and he sometimes draws letters with his finger on the palm of his hand.Hey it's too bad he's not a conservative or a Palin cuz that would make a good Family Guy episode or a SNL skit
I find most older people either become sweeter in old age or bitter in old age and typically it boils down to how they coped with the trials in their life. The person who finds the good in hardships and disappointments learns to cope better than the ones who just become more harsh and critical.
It seems obvious which way Ebert handled his challenges because he seems to be a very bitter man.
That picture isn’t Ebert — it’s Pat, from Saturday Night Live!!
I'm always interested in what Ebert has to say about film. Agree with him or not, he's a thoughtful critic and I've learned something from him again and again.
That said, I'm not too keen on his politics, but I wish him only the best.
Life is hard.
I was under the impression that Southern women chewed dirt. But what do I know.
Just something they tell kids growing up in Massachusetts.
I had to click the link to see what you were talking about. What a shame. He is still a hateful provocateur, but he can now witness the ugliness of his thoughts reflected in his mirror every day.
He’s a “teabag” accuser? What a shame for his current condition, it looks like he out of business for any feltching.
I don’t know what that is, luckily. Someone asked if he could take a donkey punch, so now I know that one. LOL.
I hadn’t heard of that “technique” before. Suffice it to say, it’s tame in comparison. Highlight, right-click and search. It’s the perfect response to the teabag moniker.
I hear that. I will merely say that Ebert recently made fun of Rush Limbaugh because Russ had a weight problem.
That's all I'll say.
What do you mean? That writing about the Arts is inherently immoral?
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