Author, journalist and public intellectual Christopher Hitchens has announced he has cancer. Illustration: Tom Jellett Source: The Australian
Ouch...this is a bad one. If caught early, however, a good outcome can be achieved. It is associated with smoking and drinking.
I wouldn’t wish cancer on anyone, and my heart sank when I read the title. May God bless him, and I don’t mean that in a flippant way.
....lucky his oesophagus didn’t rupture on him and shoot a gout of blood half way up the wall...that’s what happens to a lot of alkys...I actually saw it happen in detox once...it’s quite a thing to see.
My brother died of that. It wasn’t caught early enough; he ignored a lot of the warning signs. Prayers up.
apparently from drinking too much. Chris Buckley said he showed up on TV reeking of alcohol, possibly drunk.
God is not mocked.
Reminds me of a cartoon several years ago:
God is dead. - Nietzsche
Nietzsche is dead. - God
I can’t stand Christopher Hitchens, but I wouldn’t wish esophageal cancer on anyone! I’ll be praying for his healing, both physical and spiritual.
Not a fate I’d wish on anyone. He and his family have my most sincere and heartfelt prayers. Though he may not acknowledge it, he too is God’s child.
Pray for his conversion.
Prayers for hitch and family.
I hope when he’s ready, he can bring more attention to this cancer and treatments; He has the gift and audience to do so.
John 5:22: For the Father judgeth no man, but hath committed all judgment unto the Son: John 12:47 And if any man hear my words, and believe not, I judge him not: for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world.
With these thoughts in mind, I pray Christopher gets better.
After Jerry Falwell died this sweetheart Hitchens said something to the effect that Falwell was so full of excrement that after it was removed by the undertaker his(Falwells) remains would have fit in a matchbox.
Hitchen wants nothing to do with God and, in fact, blasphemes against Him.
He will learn all about the greatness of God a moment after he dies.
May this malady bring him to the Lord.
Jesus said love your enemies.
Christopher Hitchens is my enemy in so many ways.
But Christopher is an enemy that I find easy to love.
He is an honest enemy.
The ass clown Barry Obama is an enemy I do not love.
He is a dishonest coward of the highest order, you see he claims to be my friend as well as everyone in the universe’s friend.
I pray for Christopher’s health, even though I pray to a God that he denies and ridicules.
Ouch, that is not good. Hope things change for the better all things considered.
Depends on the stage it’s caught Stage 1 and 2 have pretty high levels of survival if treated aggressively. Stage 3 and 4 almost none. The problem is that usually the first thing you notice that sends you to a doctor is trouble swallowing and by then it’s usually stage 3 or higher. With my father from diagnosis to death was a little under 6 months.
My daughters father-in-law was diagnosed 2 months ago and they took out about 1/2 his esophagus and most of his stomach. He’s losing massive amounts of weight. Whats left of the esophagus closed up on him so he couldn’t eat. They had to use a stent to open it, but expect it to close again. So the procedure will have to be repeated. He only gets palliative chemo since there is no hope. We’re all hoping it’s quick since he has less than 5% for 5 years chance of survival and it’s really 0% because of the other problems like the closing esophagus, inability to eat much (no sphincter in esophagus so if he’s laying down the food will flow back up.).
Until we hear what stage it’s at we won’t have any idea of his chance of survival is.
They left off one leading cause of the disease and that’s acid reflux. It damages the esophagus. If you have that talk to your doctor about what you can do to minimize it. My dad didn’t really drink but he had smoked for 40 years and quit for 35 but he had bad acid reflux and some ulcers. In his case they thought it was an ulcer acting up along with some problems with swollowing.
I went last week to see him speak in Cambridge, Ma. We I got to the Brattle Theater, they said his show was canceled. Someone commented on how Hitchens prided himself on not missing an engagement.
Hitch has always been an outright, forthright honest wretch.
The comments here by the ivory pure, white brick dumpers, best capture the pinched, narrow, small horizioned character that is often, and accurately attributed to social cons.