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If you are talking about my brother, yes, his doctor has said that he is improving at a record rate compared to the previous 178 double lung transplants he has done. Jerry was #179.
If you are talking about Rush, I've heard talk about him having a transplant, but I don't think that he will. Lung cancer is a disease that centers in the lungs, but it is usually a systemic or system wide issue. My short story, 'Daddy Has Cancer' was based on a man that came into the ER late one Friday afternoon when it was unusually quiet.
His chief complaint was a constant cough of about four or five months. When I listened to his chest, I heard a sound that is quite frequent with cancer patients, so I asked my attending ER doc if I could send him down to X-ray for a 'PA & lateral' series. That's straight forward and a side view. Five minutes later, Ernie, the X-ray teach called me and told me to 'get down there and bring Dr. Hix!' A quick look at the films showed a white shadow throughout his chest, covering both lungs.
We admitted him to the CCU and all the time, he was protesting that he felt alright, he just had a cough. If you read the 'Daddy Has Cancer' I posted here, most of the same things began to happen. He was visited by the cancer specialist on staff and advised of the low probability that he had of surviving more than a month, advised to gather his family, inform his employer and update his will and such, and make any last minute things that needed to happen... happen. That was Friday about 7PM. On Sunday, he lapsed into a coma, and at 8:55 AM Monday, he died.
I don't know what Rush's true condition is right now. He looks quite healthy (save that goofy looking beard he has been growing) and has been a frequent golfer. His life is rather low key, and for anyone who has listened to him, he loves his job, and I don't think he was being stressed there. I am sure that he can afford and will receive good care. I wish him nothing but the best possible outcome.
Regardless of the bleating of the standard jackwads who have never listened to him, Rush has NEVER spewed racial hate. His main producer (AKA Bo Snerdly) is as black as black can get, and I follow him on Twitter. He is denouncing those who call Rush a racist, and says that the man is one of the kindest humans on earth.
Rush has given tens of millions of his own money to various charities including leukemia and cancer research. His current campaign of raising money for homes for families of disabled and or killed in the military has raised enough money to buy homes for over 125 military families. When I hear the idiot Alexandria Occasionally Cognizant run her idiot mouth about 'he has done nothing to deserve the Presidential Medal of Freedom,' I want to slap her. Every time she opens her mouth, she proves how vacant and vacuous she is both mentally and emotionally.
We can have political differences, but still treat each other with a modicum of respect. I run a very popular political page on FB. I post links and extensive commentary of what I think about a certain subject that is mentioned in the article. I never do what I call the clowns who post "Three Words and a Link." Any idiot can do that. I give you my point of view. When Jerry Nadler's wife was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, I posted a link to the story and asked my followers to say a prayer for her. To the respondents on my post, every single one of them was respectful of the Nadler family. I highly dislike the man's political views, but I would not wish pancreatic cancer on ANYONE.
I have been fighting pancreatic cancer since 2013. I know first hand. If it were not for 'The Touch' that I wrote about in that story, I have no doubt that I would be dead by now. I firmly believe that. God had a use for me. I didn't understand it when I was told about it when I was nine, but I understood it when it came to do what I had to do. Yeah, it looks like I'm promoting my book... and I am... but I was spared multiple 'certain death' situations to accomplish one other thing. I was 63 when I realized what my mission was, and I'll tell you right now, of all the things I've had to do in my life, that mission was the hardest and most heart-breaking, but I did what I had to do. Now, I live on 'God's good graces.' (That's a line from the movie, 'Titantic.')
I've read violent posts on Twitter, hoping Rush dies a painful and tortured death. I don't care about your politics, to do that shows a very small mind. That is why I don't talk politics who don't understand it. I knew and worked for Jerry Ford, and as I've posted here before, I knew him just before he became president and and met with him after. The press played him up as stupid, but he was a very smart and kind man. I know what he told me about the Nixon pardon, and I understand why he did what he did.
For me, life is not 'black and white.' It's not even thirty shades of gray and white. If you aren't looking at life in full living color, you aren't really living.
Just my opinion and look at Life.
posted by
BigV
on February 6, 2020 at 8:27 AM
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BV..I know I'm off topic..but watching the State of the Union last night...I watched the discussion about Rush Limbaugh having to have a double-lung replacement because of cancer. I thought about your friend or relative who just went through it. Is everything improving?
posted by
Corbin_Dallas
on February 6, 2020 at 7:04 AM
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at least it is your own hair.....giggling as i leave thinking of a toupee flying away!!
posted by
Kabu
on February 5, 2020 at 12:11 PM
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