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Posted on 12/16/2010 3:15:04 PM PST by heiss
“After my annual physical in late November, I was diagnosed with early stage prostate cancer. After reviewing all the options with multiple physicians, I decided to take a proactive approach and have surgery, which will be performed December 20 at Johns Hopkins Hospital by Dr. Alan Partin.
Thanks to routine screening, this was diagnosed very early and I expect a full and speedy recovery.
I scheduled the surgery for the Monday before Christmas anticipating that the Senate would have recessed by that time and that there would be no disruption to my work in Oregon or Washington. However, it now appears that I will be missing votes tomorrow and possibly next week while I prepare and undergo this procedure. I expect to be back to work full-time when the Senate reconvenes in January.
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He is likely to miss key votes on DADT, START and maybe even that 1.1T ombinus bill.
My hopes for a successful surgery and speedy recovery.
God moves in mysterious ways. Maybe he still loves this country for the sake of the righteous.
Thank goodness it was found early and hope for a speedy recovery.
is it safe to say DREAM ACT is dead???
On Cavuto today, he was talking to an analyst who related a story from a CEO conference at Yale, where the CEO of a medical device manufacturer with a radioactive “seed” implanted in the prostrate would save surgery. But, under ZerOcare, medical devices are less remunerative than surgery where the doctors get paid more.
Fortunately, Widen, as a member of Congress, is exempt from ZerOcare. He will, probably, serve out his six years. That, and most people with prostate cancer die of old age.
AT HOME....
...Senator, don't risk your health...think of your children and loved ones....
...quit the Senate now, for life is too short to risk any more health problems....
...I'm serious....
Right after a couple of weeks in the hospital.
We need another sicko though ~ gotta' be somebody ..................... just for insurance.
I do not recall the staging number of my prostate cancer but it was high. I opted for radio active seed implant, much against the desires of my urologist. I went in the hosp at 5Am, had the seed implants (99 little RA bb’s) and was in recovery at 8AM. They said after I showed I could urinate, I could go home. I left at 10:30 and was home at 11:00. That was 13 or 14 years ago. I am still cancer free. I was back to work in 2 days.
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He will be just fine, don’t forget, he has the ‘Special Congressional” health insurance.
Free to Congress and illegal aliens.
The American citizens that pay his salary are paying to save his rear-end. He has the Gold Card of insurance. I have to work my rear end off to pay our bills so my wife won’t die AND we will not lose our house in this Obama economy.
BTW, my wife is battling breast cancer and we do not have his ‘privileged’ care. Meanwhile, we struggle every day.
He’s using one of the best known PC surgeons in the country. Partin created the statistical table that’s used to estimate the extent of prostate cancer. Nothing but the best for ole’ Ron, who voted to stick the rest of us with lowest common denominator medical care.
Unfortunately there is no full recovery from Prostate surgery.
It’s the end of a normal sex life.
There are mechanical means and medical means, but the old days are over.
Dirty Harry is probably trying to allow him to vote from the hospital. Surgery will not get in Dirty Harry’s way. If Wyden cannot return until after the lame duck session, the DREAM Act looks doomed. I wish him a speedy recovery after the new Congress convenes.
And unfortunately within 5 years the cancer can be back in that area, and they will then undergo 43 days of radiation therapy, Mon-Fri. - Tom
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