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Rush Shares His Cancer Diagnosis
The Rush Limbgaugh Show ^ | 2/3/20 | Rush Limbaugh

Posted on 02/03/2020 12:31:19 PM PST by conservative98

Rush Shares His Cancer Diagnosis

Feb 3, 2020

RUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, this… This day has been one of the most difficult days in recent memory for me because I’ve known this moment was coming in the program today. Now, I’m sure that you all know by now, I really don’t like talking about myself, and I don’t like making things about me other than in the usual satirical, parodic, joking way.

I like this program to be about you and the things that matter to all of us. The one thing that I know that has happened over the 31-plus years of this program is that there has been an incredible bond that has developed between all of you and me. Now, this program’s 31 years old, and in that 31 years, there are people — you hear them call all the time — who have been listening the whole time. They’ve been listening 30 years or 25 years.

I just had somebody say they’ve been here three years. But, whatever, it is a family-type relationship to me, and I’ve mentioned to you that this program and this job is what has provided me the greatest satisfaction and happiness that I’ve ever experienced, more than I ever thought that I would experience. So I have to tell you something today that I wish I didn’t have to tell you.

 

It’s a struggle for me because I had to inform my staff earlier today. I can’t escape… Even though people are telling me it’s not the way to look at it, I can’t help but feel that I’m letting everybody down with this. But the upshot is that I have been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, diagnosis confirmed by two medical institutions back on January 20th. I first realized something was wrong on my birthday weekend, January 12th.

I wish I didn’t have to tell you this, and I thought about not telling anybody. I thought about trying to do this without anybody knowing, ’cause I don’t like making things about me. But there are going to be days that I’m not gonna be able to be here because I’m undergoing treatment or I’m reacting to treatment, and I know that that would inspire all kinds of curiosity with people wondering what’s going on.

And the worst thing that can happen is when there is something going on and you try to hide it and cover it up. It’s eventually gonna leak, and then people are gonna say, “Why didn’t you just say it? Why’d you try to fool everybody? ” It’s not that I want to fool anybody. It’s just that I don’t want to burden anybody with it, and I haven’t wanted to. But it is what it is. You know me; I’m the mayor of Realville.

So this has happened, and my intention is to come here every day I can and to do this program as normally and as competently and as expertly as I do each and every day, because that is the source of my greatest satisfaction professionally, personally. I’ve had so much support from family and friends during this that it’s just been tremendous. I told the staff today that I have a deeply personal relationship with God that I do not proselytize about.

But I do, and I have been working that relationship (chuckles) tremendously, which I do regularly anyway, but I’ve been focused on it intensely for the past couple of weeks. I know there are many of you in this audience who have experienced this, who are going through it yourselves at the same time. I am, at the moment, experiencing zero symptoms other than… Look, I don’t want to get too detailed in this.

What led to shortness of breath that I thought might have been asthma or — you know, I’m 69 — it could have been my heart. My heart’s in great shape, ticking away fine, squeezing and pumping great. It was not that. It was a pulmonary problem involving malignancy. So I’m gonna be gone the next couple days as we figure out the treatment course of action and have further testing done. But as I said, I’m gonna be here as often as I can.

And as is the case with everybody who finds themselves in this circumstance, you just want to push ahead and try to keep everything as normal as you can, which is something that I’m going to try to do. But I felt that I had to tell you because that’s the kind of relationship I feel like I have with those of you in this audience. I say it every Christmas, which is what I feel more thankful than as Thanksgiving.

And I feel thankful at Thanksgiving, but Christmas it really gets to me. But over the years, a lot of people have been very nice telling me how much this program has meant to them. But whatever that is, it pales in comparison to what you all have meant to me. And I can’t describe this. But I know you’re there every day. I can see you. It’s strange how, but I know you’re there.

I know you’re there in great numbers, and I know that you understand everything I say. The rest of the world may not when they hear it expressed a different way, but I know that you do. You’ve been one of the greatest sources of confidence that I’ve had in my life. So I hope I will be talking about this as little as necessary in the coming days.

But we’ve got a great bunch of doctors, a great team assembled. We’re at full-speed ahead on this, and it’s just now a matter of implementing what we are gonna be told later this week. So I’ll be back here. I hope I’ll be back Thursday. If not, it will be as soon as I can — and know that every day I’m not here, I’ll be thinking about you and missing you. Thank you very much.



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KEYWORDS: cancer; limbaugh; lungcancer; rush; rushlimbaugh; rushlive; rushlungcancer; rushtranscript; talkradio
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To: conservative98

Prayers for FRiends and Rush.


201 posted on 02/03/2020 2:28:43 PM PST by bgill
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To: conservative98

“Lung cancer is very hard for doctors to find in its early stages. Even if you have symptoms, like a cough or feeling tired, you might not feel bad enough to see a doctor. Most people are diagnosed after their disease becomes advanced. Although there’s no cure for lung cancer at this stage, there are treatments that can make symptoms easier to handle.”

https://www.webmd.com/lung-cancer/advanced-lung-cancer#1


202 posted on 02/03/2020 2:28:51 PM PST by KeyLargo
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To: conservative98

And evil drunks like Hillary and pelosi will live to 100 and continue to make our lives miserable the whole time.


203 posted on 02/03/2020 2:29:52 PM PST by Old Yeller (Auto-correct has become my worst enema.)
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To: RummyChick

Not sure of the others, but my mutations developed during cancer. It also changed my dna sequence - which was corrected thru chemo.

But, I don’t think all cancers can be genetically tested for. With mine and others with my type - it be tested in advance for.


204 posted on 02/03/2020 2:31:10 PM PST by HollyB
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To: McGavin999

BTTT.


205 posted on 02/03/2020 2:31:12 PM PST by Jane Long (Praise God, from whom ALL blessings flow.)
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To: EnquiringMind

This is one of the most apt few words I have seen on it

https://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2018/04/18/science-surgery-do-we-all-have-potentially-cancerous-cells-in-our-bodies/

“A game of cellular cat and mouse”

It’s why people can say I smoked 80 years and didn’t get cancer. That does NOT mean smoking can’t cause cancer. And why you can get lung cancer but never smoked in your life.


206 posted on 02/03/2020 2:32:00 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: EnquiringMind

“sometimes the origin is microscopic and shoots off microscopic cells that take hold elsewhere”

Exactly. This is where the new immunotherapy treatments come in. After chemo and radiation hopefully does it’s job, the immunotherapy drug works with the immune system to target hidden cancer cells without damaging healthy cells.


207 posted on 02/03/2020 2:32:12 PM PST by jersey117
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To: conservative98
I hope I’ll be back Thursday. If not, it will be as soon as I can...

That's good to hear.

208 posted on 02/03/2020 2:32:21 PM PST by McGruff
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To: conservative98

We love you Rush, we’ll pray for you, support you and try and find a way to thank you for all you’ve done. God bless you, Kathryn and your whole family at this trying time. God will answer the millions and millions of prayers that will be prayed on your behalf......Praise God!


209 posted on 02/03/2020 2:33:24 PM PST by Dawgreg
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To: conservative98

We love you Rush, we’ll pray for you, support you and try and find a way to thank you for all you’ve done. God bless you, Kathryn and your whole family at this trying time. God will answer the millions and millions of prayers that will be prayed on your behalf......Praise God!


210 posted on 02/03/2020 2:33:24 PM PST by Dawgreg
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To: conservative98

God bless him and Kathryn. Will pray for this situation for healing and for as much time as God allows him before calling him home.


211 posted on 02/03/2020 2:34:57 PM PST by prairiebreeze (Don't be afraid to see what you see. -- Ronald Reagan)
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To: conservative98

Prayers for Rush! My aunt beat stage 4 lung cancer 5 years ago and is doing well. Nothing is impossible for our God, the divine Healer.


212 posted on 02/03/2020 2:35:16 PM PST by mills044 (Don't Tread on Me)
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To: HangnJudge

One of God’s greatest gifts is hope.

I am hoping Rush’s lung cancer will be a type that responds to one of the new immunotherapies.


213 posted on 02/03/2020 2:36:10 PM PST by JayGalt (You can't teach a donkey how to tap dance. Nemo me impune lacessit!)
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To: HollyB

Oh, most cant be tested for..but there are some that can. And even if you have the genetic predispostion such as BRCA issue..doesn’t mean you will get cancer.

I say frequently..know your body and your symptoms....and don’t be afraid to order your own lab tests from places like Direct Labs if you can’t get a Dr to do it.

I ordered a woman’s work up and found something that I had never been told I had. I don’t think it is often tested. It could explain some things that I had always attributed to thalessemia.

Know your baselines so that you know when your levels are out of whack for you.


214 posted on 02/03/2020 2:36:17 PM PST by RummyChick
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To: conservative98

I was numb when he made this announcement on the air today. Devastated. I will be praying for him every day.


215 posted on 02/03/2020 2:38:32 PM PST by DLfromthedesert
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To: McGavin999

“Make sure Rush knows you are sure he will win this battle. We will surround him with prayer but his attitude is very important in this fight. Don’t let him give up.”

So very important. My husband and I draw strength from each other we never knew we had. I try to be nothing but positive around him. Rush needs to have a fighting spirit. With love and prayers and a good team of doctors he will get through this.


216 posted on 02/03/2020 2:42:36 PM PST by jersey117
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To: RummyChick

Agree! I made excuses for my symptoms. But, even still it was not caught until it was out of control. But, this is the case for anyone with AML. We all have the same story. It brews in the bone marrow. So it won’t show till it moves to the peripheral blood to show on the blood tests. Then it’s bad. Real bad. So, there’s just no way to know.


217 posted on 02/03/2020 2:44:47 PM PST by HollyB
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To: conservative98

Prayers being said for Rush daily.


218 posted on 02/03/2020 2:45:18 PM PST by LoveMyFreedom
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To: RummyChick

Once it’s in the peripheral blood, most have only 2-3 weeks to live.


219 posted on 02/03/2020 2:46:18 PM PST by HollyB
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To: HangnJudge

I’m not sure that’s a good idea. I think Rush truly enjoys his job and looks forward to his time in front of the mike. If he had nothing to plan on and look forward to, his will to live might go away.


220 posted on 02/03/2020 2:46:26 PM PST by Blood of Tyrants (If gun ownership by private citizens scares DemocRats, the 2nd Amendment is doing its job.)
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