Posted on 01/11/2019 12:44:56 PM PST by Texas Fossil
In light of Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s history of cancers and most recently, a surgery to have cancerous tumors removed from her lungs as well as her absence from the bench, Dr. Joseph Bentivegna writes Bader, 85, is quite ill.
Dr. Bentivegna, M.D. says the media who have commented on Ginsburg’s health are “underestimating the severity of her illness,” and that “President Trump has a reasonable chance” of replacing Ginsburg in his first term.
If Trump wins reelection, the doctor believes Trump has at least an 80% chance of replacing Ginsburg — we believe that chance is much much higher.
The doctor laid out Ginsburg’s history of illness in his blog post, but points out the most significant thing is the justice’s recent surgery on her lungs to remove tumors.
1. She had non-metastatic colon cancer removed in 1999
2. She had non-metastatic pancreatic cancer removed in 2010.
3. She had a stent placed in her coronary arteries in 2014
4. She fell in November of 2018 and broke three ribs.
5. She had surgery in December of 2018 and had two malignant nodules removed from her lungs.
6. Scans found no other cancer in her body.
7. She is 85 years old and has no history of being a smoker.
According to Dr. Bentivegna, the key here is what type of cancer Ginsburg had on her lungs. It has already been determined that the tumors removed were malignant, however, there is one more layer to this.
The doctor points out that we still don’t know what type of cancer Ginsburg has:
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Agree.
i am thinking end of month... quarter.
Has Satan fast tracked her exit, yet.
She of course won’t do that unless she’s basically physically finished. They’ve made her a folk hero for her perseverance and now for trying to outlast Trump.
I am good with the diagnosis that Trump is a narcissicistic psychopathic perverted maniac. It keeps the other side from understanding his tactical and strategic genius. As Sun Tzu said - never underestimate your enemy.
I had neck tubes in veins, feeding me and watering me, to bypass the stomach and inflamed pancreas, so my body consumed all its body fat and muscle. 2-3 small cups of ice chips a day, was all I was allowed, in the Oncology Wing/ICU/CCU.
I was like a cadaver when I got out. I went from size 38” Lee jeans down to 32”, and they were like bags on me. I’m putting weight back on slowly, now and up from 134 to 159.
I still have stents in my stomach, so I can’t lift weights yet, until they’re removed, so all I can use are 7 & 10-lb dumbells. I need to put muscle back on, not just weight.
Agreed. I disagree with RBG, vehemently, but I refuse to allow politics to make me become a vulture.
“Any man’s death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee.”
The left is mad she didn't retire under 0, they'll really hate her she retires.
My money is she hangs on until she dies, then a few months longer if needed.
I certainly don’t wish her dead. Cancer is a terrible thing. However, I do wish her a long and fruitful life in retirement. Starting tomorrow would be okay.
So she can vote one more time......................
It is caused almost exclusively from binge dinking alcohol. Many of the patients are college kids who drink to excess because for the first time their lives, they can without somebody to say slow down.
The other category of patients who get it are middle age alcoholics who drink more than just socially. My doctor told me that together, these two groups make up 95-98% of all cases they see.
Problem with both times I had it was that I didn't drink alcohol....at all. My house doctor that saw me in the hospital insisted I tell her how much a I drank and how often. She still didn't believe me, despite my protestations. She sent me home, with the advice not to drink.
The second time I got it, my wife had to come in and convince the doctor that I was telling the truth. I didn't touch alcohol.
After further investigation, the second doctor found that a very small percentage of acute pancreatitis cases were caused from taking a certain class of blood pressure medications. I was on one of them. He switched my medications and I've never had a problem since.
But my experience in the hospital was much milder than your story. I felt severe abdominal pain from the inflammation of my gut but to treat it, they gave me intravenous saline with no food or water or even ice chips for 5 days straight until the inflammation abated.
Thinking that I would lose weight from not eating for days, I was startled when I got home and realized that I had gained weight, not lost it. After consulting with my doctor about it, he told me that because they had fill me with water intravenously over the 5 day stay, that I had gained weight from the water.
Water weighs about 8 lbs. to the gallon. About what I had gained. He said the weight would eventually slough off because it was water and it did.
So tell us, carriage_hill, how bad of a drunk are you? :-)
The rumor I heard was that she was approached about retiring under Obama, but she declined because HRC was a shoe-in to win the election. I think she wanted the first woman president to have the honor of naming her replacement. Girl power and all that. She chose poorly.
He already caved on H-1B. What else do we give up to get what should have been done 20 years ago.
Karnac says RBG leaves the planet before she leaves the Supreme Court.
Vegas has it 2:1
5.56mm
Remote psychology was not cool when they did it to Trump. Remote oncology is not cool with Ginsburg.
Let the old woman die with dignity.
I said after the announcement of her recent cancer operation that this was signaling the “beginning of the end.”
LOLOL!!
I don’t drink, either.
My docs said it was the Gall Bladder dropping sludge on to the Pancreas, building a stalagmite pseudo-cyst on the Pancreas, compressing the stomach into golf ball size. The stomach, r/s and back pain was excruciating, and I was on Oxys for months. I stopped that stuff when the pain stopped.
They wanted to remove the GB, but pseudo-cyst was size of a grapefruit, and blocking access to the GB. They’ve drained it thru 15 Endoscopies w/ pigtail stents thru stomach and into cyst.
Only PSU-Hershey performs that op/procedure, so I’m their GI patient, and have another Endoscopy coming in March. 5mos since last one in Nov ‘18. They don’t feel it’s necessary to remove GB, w 1 stone, and have widened the ducts strictures.
PSU-Hershey is an amazing place, and I’m lucky to be alive after what I went thru here at York (PA) Hospital.
I had my own bad experience when I died two days after open heart surgery in the intensive care ward when they rolled my over in bed to do an x-ray and I threw a pulmonary embolus.
I stopped breathing and my heart arrested. They had to cut me back open and unwire my breast bone so the surgeon could hand-massage my heart back to beating again in normal sinus rhythm. Took him 8 minutes before the heart started beating on its own. He told my later, that he would have given up after 10.
I was a mess. Instead of a planned 5 days in the hospital after a quadruple bypass and valve repair, I was laid up in intensive care for 5 weeks. Two blood transfusions. My legs were like jelly when I was finally discharged. I could hardly breath. It took me over two years to come back so that I am pretty fit again.
At 71 years of age, I am lucky to be alive and count my blessings everyday that I survived that near death experience.
Good luck to you and prayers for a full and speedy recovery.
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