I wish Tony Snow health and peace.

Politics aside, it breaks my heart to look at him. Anyone on DU who has been through cancer with a loved on knows why.


He reminds me of my father, when my father was battling esophageal/stomach cancer. The pallor, thinning white hair, hollow eyes....

And that brings back the constant fear that gripped my family for that whole year--through the diagnosis, chemo, radiation, and holding our breath for an all-clear sign from the doctor. We still get a taste of that fear, when my dad goes every four months for his check-ups. Still all clear...I guess I can exhale a little now.

My father has been in remission for almost 3 years. I wish that for Tony Snow.

Cancer doesn't discriminate. It kills anyone, anywhere if it can.

I feel for him. I hope he beats it.

politics aside I wish him well on his battle

I was really was suprised when he came back.

to tell the difference in him and my father when my pa was in treatment.

The thin white hair, frail body, stooped shoulders.... really, really a terrible thing to watch a loved one go through. :(

I know what you mean.

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Redstone

My best to you, too.

:hug:

My best wishes for his continued recovery. :hug:

:hi: Maddy!

Diagnosed in October 2004. Treatment into spring 2005.

He's 77 years old now. Still a tough ol' bird, still bushhogs, runs a chainsaw, swings a hammer like no one's business, and then can sit down and give me advice on any topic...the wisest man I know.

:hi: Bunny!

It was so terrible to go through, both then and now. I wish Tony Snow peace and recovery, too.

I salute your empathy and kindness. We mustn't lose our own humanity just because we are surrounded by inhumanity. I wish peace and health for Tony and your Dad...and for all who suffer.

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that it matters. Just thought you'd like to know that the pimple-faced jerkoffs are still peering through the windows, so sadly envious of those of us who have actual lives, rather than living (if you can call it living) vicariously through an obsession of monitoring us her at DU...I guess that's what happens when you're incapable of having an original thought of your own.

Pathetic. It must be damn sad to have a life that's so hollow that you have to scrub your hands together with glee, reporting the latest "scoop" you've gotten by being a voyeur for your pleasure, rather than having an actual life of your own.

Damn, it's good to be a DUer, where we actually CARE about one another as human beings, rather than being parasites who gain their worthless sense of glory by attaching themselves, lamprey-like, to another discussion board, because theirs is lacking in, Christ, I don't know what, but whatever it's lacking drives them to peek through others' windows for their satisfaction. Yuck.

But I guess there are people who have nothing better to do.

Redstone

but they seem to be obsessed with what we say and think. If we are pathetic, what does that make them?

It makes them so boring and idle in their own lives that their only thrill is grabbing ahold to our posts and ridiculing them. No original thought. no sense of community there...just a bunch of people with nothing better to do than obsess on DU.

Now tell me, who's pathetic?

courage to face the truth, which is why truth is in such short supply Over There.

They prefer bluster and bullshit to truth, because acknowledging the truth requires courage.

Redstone

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Are you so cold-hearted that you enjoy watching another person suffer? Do you hold your political identity closer than you hold your sense of humanity?

Do you let others' actions dictate whether or not you have compassion for people?

If you answered yes to any of the questions above, I truly pity you.

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smarmy condescension aside

I hope the irony is as apparent to you as it is to me.

you are naive and they would exploit that doe-eyed innocence like a hardened prisoner. no mercy for others. and their abuse of power has killed hundreds of thousands. kids are dead and do you care? no, you want to play 'high and mighty' in you arrogant above-it-all moral superiority.

care to 'have at it' much?

now you attack me for my realistic ambivalence for a crime family member? brilliant.

No go find another thread to disrupt. You just earned your place on my short and exclusive ignore list.

and a remission. My father died of colon cancer and it was tough. I think it's great your father has been in remission for almost 3 years. It helps to have a caring and loving daughter like you.

You know well the horrific situation that a cancer battle is when a loved one is involved. I am so very sorry about the loss of your father. I feel blessed every single day that I have the time I have with my Dad.


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I wouldn't wish that on my worst enemy...

I'm with you, Maddy -- and glad to hear that your father is doing well.

You, too. Because people don't realize the stress and sadness family members go through when their loved one has been diagnosed.

Take care of yourself. :hug:

My mom had brain cancer and i wouldn't wish any cancer on anybody.

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How is your mother?

and i don't want to be a downer and medicine has come along way since then. She died, she worked right up until a month before and to this day i will never forget how bearable in home hospice care made her final days and how much they helped me. I was 17 at the time and basically it was just Mom and me.

Oh god.

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:hug:

It was a terrible time for me but i got through and honestly there isn't much i can't handle anymore, you know what i mean?

You are a survivor. I'm in awe of you.

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I was 38 when my father was diagnosed. My world was destroyed for that year. I went into a depression that I could almost not dig myself out of. How you went through that at 17 and survived....you are amazing.

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Remission from his cancer.

A change of heart in his politics.

I have a feeling the best I can hope for is 1 out of 2.

I have seen cancer firsthand. It's a horrible fucking scourge on the human race, and it'll be a great day when this scourge is eradicated.

his family, which is something he should have done last year.

And both me and my mother have cancer.

My sympathy meter is maxed out for the people who are suffering...or dead...because of people like Snow,who has actively and willingly chosen to lie in order defend and promote the actions that have led to what is now over a half a MILLION dead.

I do admire your sentiments,but I don't share them.

I'm very glad to hear that father is doing well,however.

and your mother.

:hug:

And I don't mean to rain on your thread,just giving a different take.

Thank you,honestly,for your kind thoughts.

You didn't rain on my thread. People are bound to have different opinions on the topic, and I realize that.

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from cancer. She fought that for 2 1/2 years while I was in college, after they gave her two months. She was a fighter. She was a Democrat. But mostly she was a good woman who brought her kids up to care for others, especially those less fortunate than themselves. She believed in courtesy. She beleived that you leave it better than you found it, that if you have the ability to help, you have the responsibility to help, and that if you are not part of the soltion, you are part of the problem. She was gentle and kind, and gave a hand out to anyone who needed it, but she wouldn't take crap off of anyone ... especially when it came to watching out for her family ... and her country (but then, that is somewhat redundant) ... she worked for the Red Coss asa Field Director at Red Cross Recreation centers alon the Burma and Ledo Roads in Southeast Asia in 1944 and 1945.

In 1970, my dad's company moved him from Texas (where I grew up) to New Orleans . . . which was pretty much of a backwater for Gulf Oil. You see, he was medical director for the Southern U.S., but they didn't even have a doctor on staffin New Orleans. The problem was that when the call went out to give money to George H W Bush for his senate run, my dad responded by giving more money to Ralph Yarborough (and then helped him pay off his debt when Ralph lost to Lloyd Bentsen. Thank God Bush did too. But he was persona non grata with the big boys in Pittsburgh, so we got sent to New Orleans.

During the stress of moving and all the crap we had to go through, my mom let a few things slide. . . . she always did that if there was a conflict between her welfare or ours ... unfortunately, this time it was a medical checkup. She had had cancer scares before, and so generally kept on top of that kind of stuff. ///////////not this time ... and when they found it . . . well, it was too late. The cancer folks at Oschners in New Orleans gave her about 2 months. . . . but she fought ... and it was hard. I cried every night for years ...and got drunk a little too often (thanks to my fraternity brothers for helping me through that)

We finally got to move back to Houston in October 1972. I was rehearsing a play in college and she called to tell me we were going home. By then she was pretty much confined to a hospital bed for long periods of time, so they flew her home in an ambulance plane. When I got home to Houston, she was at Twelve Oaks hospital. Her spirits were great, though, and she came home before Christmas. That's when she cooked her last meal for me .. us. Eye Round Roast like only she could fix it, LeSeur peas, and mashed potatoes. She never went into the kitchen again.

That Christmas her older sister and my cousin came to see us. I was to go back to school with them for the 2d semester of my junior year, but a few days after Christmas mom went into a coma.Nobody said anything to me, but I didn't go back. I stayed home and sat with my mom and the private duty nurses. /since dad was a doctor, we were able to keep mom at home. I stayed up night after night. She was in a coma or what seemed like months, but then she came out of it andseemed to get a little better. However, by then she had had a hysterectomy, two colostomies, and her body was pretty much eaten up with cancer. Some times we weren't able to get a night nurse, and so I sat up with her ... my dad in the next room in case I needed him.
She had to have a special matress because of bed sores. Insurance did not want to pay for it. They said it was like moving to Ariona because of alergies. Fortunately one of our best friends owned a pharmacy and got it for us.

In May or June 1973 when the Nixon White House Enemies list became public, mom was mad as hell. She said if anybody deserved to be on that ist, she did!

In July she went into a coma again. at 6:30 AM on July 14 she breathed her last. I was standing at her bed.

So, I'm sorry if it seems callous, but I am not going to cry one little bit for any miscreant piece of slime that has sold his soul to lie and shill for this warcriminal murderer and his maladministration ... though it may not seem logical to some, I have all ready done enough crying on account of this Bush family. I don't have anymore tears left.

I am sorry about the suffering your mother endured, and for the pain you experienced as you watched her suffer.

i hope that he gets a chance to meet up with his personal saviour very soon.

"So I jump ship in Hong Kong and make my way over to Tibet and I get on as a looper at a course over in the Himalayas. A looper, you know, a caddy; a looper, a jock. So, I tell them I'm a pro jock, and who do you think they give me? The Dalai Lama, himself. Twelfth son of the Lama. The flowing robes, the grace, bald — striking. So, I'm on the first tee with him. I give him the driver. He hauls off and whacks one — big hitter, the Lama — long, into a 10,000 foot crevice, right at the base of this glacier.

And do you know what the Lama says? Gunga galunga... Gunga, gunga galunga. So we finish the 18th and he's gonna stiff me. And I say, "Hey, Lama, hey, how about a little something, you know, for the effort, you know?" And he says, 'Oh, there won't be any money. But when you die, on your deathbed, you will receive total consciousness.' So I got that goin' for me, which is nice."

He's finishing chemo now after a round of radiation. I hope the treatments work because it's tearing him up.

No, not even on my worst enemy would I wish this disease.

Health and peace to all who suffer from it.

:(

Damn. Too young.

I hope he has a full recovery. :hug:

She has an extremely rare condition that includes malignant tumors on the spine. She's now a paraplegic and undergoing radiation as well.

17. It does not discriminate by age or gender or even political affiliation.

Best wishes to your father and your family as well. :hug:

best wishes for his health.

I think he's shown remarkable strength to last this long in that job while he's sick. My best wishes and prayers to Tony Snow.

I don't like him. He was a bullshit peddler on Faux, and an even bigger bullshit peddler for The Boy King.

But, I certainly hope his retirement from peddling bullshit allows him to regain his health and energy and beat that nasty six-letter word, cancer. I may not care for him, but I don't wish him death from cancer.

It's hard to know what to say. On a human basis, of course you don't want him to die. You want him to heal both body AND mind, and realize what a lying POS he's been, and how many deaths he's aided and abetted with each lie he's told. You want him to come away a new and whole man in every sense of the words. The likelihood that he would do such a thing is probably about the same that anyone here would change in the opposite direction.

This is a progressive board, so what's the progressive thing to do? Is there even such a thing as a progressive reaction to this? I like to thing that progressivism is about taking it all as it comes and trying to remain as human as possible. Well, the two human reactions I feel now are sorrow and a twisted sense of justice, to wish to punish him severely for being very near a damned criminal. I don't believe in karma, and I can't be sure that he and every other foul rodent on the Hill will indeed reap what has been sown, because frankly, good does not always triumph over evil, whatever "good" and "evil" mean. That said, I'm not sure that even a slow death from colon cancer is what he deserves, for how is that going to make him feel even a shred of remorse for what he's done? No, the punishment must fit the crime, and this "punishment" does not fit.

So Tony Snow, I wish your family lots of strength in dealing with this, and I hope you survive it, either to repent and stop your infernal aiding of this atrocity we call an administration or to sit through a truly appropriate punishment.

and a 5th rec for a beautiful post. All the best to your dad, and to Tony Snow, and all who have been touched by this horrid disease.

I believe it is only human to feel compassion for those that are suffering from an illness as horrid as this. It has nothing to do with one's political preference or their beliefs.

Peace on you and your family Tony.

Peace, not so much. Anyone who takes money for being a Bushco propagandist deserves a tortured conscience at the very least. Between working for Faux Nooze and his stint as press secretary, Snow has helped to enable pretty much the full smorgasboard of Bush administration crimes. Recovery, yes. Peace of mind? If it was up to me to dispense it, Snow would be near the bottom of my list of potential recipients.

for Tony and his family.

But if I ever start a thread (now two) just to state this, somebody smack me.

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I really do hope that he gets better.

I wish the best for your father.
I"m so glad he's in remission, and I hope Tony Snow
gets there, too.

My dad died a little over 10 years ago from pancreatic cancer.
I was with him until the end.
He was scared ,had lost weight, and his ability to enjoy
even the basics like reading.
It's very, very tough.

I wish you and your family strength as you go through this.
Believe me when I say you, your dad and family are in my
heart and prayers.

Thank you for a beautiful thread.

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I hope he makes it. His words in regards to Elizabeth Edwards when her cancer turned were precious and showed a true piece of him.