Posted on 09/10/2014 10:19:27 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Rob Ford, the controversial mayor of Toronto who became an international celebrity last year after acknowledging using crack cocaine in a “drunken stupor,” is believed to have a tumor in his abdomen, health officials said.
Dr. Rueben Devlin from Humber Regional Hospital said Wednesday night that Ford had been complaining of abdominal pains and that an examination has resulted in a working diagnosis of a tumor.
He said Ford had been suffering from stomach pains for at least three months and they had worsened in the last 24 hours.
“It became unbearable for him,” he said. …
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With all his apparent faults, I’d rather he was our president than the one we have now.
The best of two crackheads?
At least Rob is straight, loves his country and was born there...
“That’s not a tumor... that’s my head!”
One of the side effects of drug use, prescribed or not. Things happen, to you, and you don’t know it because you don’t feel it. You can lose teeth, develop major health problems such as tumors and infections and what not and you simply aren’t aware until the worm eats its way out of the apple.
He picked a bad day to quit crack.
He had been suffering for over three months? What did he think it was, gas?
i had the same thought... 3 months is a long time to let it go... maybe his health insurance is no good :)
You know, I hate to pile on a guy who's sick, but just damn.
It's like no amount of lawlessness will shame a politician into quitting.
It's not just a U.S. thing, apparently.
He has all that FREE healthcare Canada offers, but I will bet you he ends up in the USA for surgery.
Of course because he is an elected official, he will go to the head of the line in Canada’s Commie-Care!
Canada has an excellent health care system. Friend of mine has a husband who when in early seventies had a liver transplant there.
I’ve been complaining and been hospitalized several times for Abdominal pain. Latest was a Colitis Ileus attack. Had a third while in the hospital.
I can’t get my internist or Gastro to look where the real cause of the pain lies. I fell a very hard belly flop fall, that bruised my entire Upper AB wall and rib cage. No broken bones. The fact I have bad Osteoporosis -3.1, I should have broken every rib. (I got stuck in a AB Brace that covered you from Ribs to lower AB.) Thankful I did not. But not more than 2 weeks later with out DIAGNOSTICS I was supposed to get, and the Ortho refused to order but sent me to a super aggressive Certified Physio guy. Who over cranked on my neck and POPPED a Lumbar disc. Instant pain down both legs and across lower AB that has not let up in THREE YEARS!
Plain with no contrast dye MRI was worthless as a diagnostic tool. I’ve had 3 no 2 read alike. Last one the Neuro told me that a popped disc in my lumbar could not cause AB pain. It sure as H does cause it and the pain down both legs. L1 - L5 Large intestines, appendix, abdomen, bladder, reproductive organs, lower back, lower extremities, ankles, feet, and more He must have slept through that simple Biology 101 class. Virtual Spine, touch the disc it tells you what it controls. http://www.echiropractic.net/nervechart.htm
Lumbar Spine Lower Back L1 - L5 Large intestines, appendix, abdomen, bladder, reproductive organs, lower back, lower extremities, ankles, feet, and more.
And my husband’s 80 yr old Canadian aunt who fell and broke her back, her NOT changeable Primary told her she was to old to treat, go home and DIE, he refused her treatment. Her heart doc treated the broken back. She finally learned to walk again, and lived to be 90.
It’s the same as in the US for every good story, there is a bad one with the medical field.
Heavy drinking and pancreatic cancer are not unknowns.
Canada Ping!
He is still far better than the alternatives. 680 news was speculating on his brother Doug jumping into the race—tomorrow is the last day to file.
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