Posted on 02/11/2014 4:47:23 PM PST by RoosterRedux
Edited on 02/11/2014 4:52:26 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
I’ve always wanted to see some impudent “guest” offer the comment :
“Tom, you’re 74 years old, making a couple million a year, and clearly a one percenter. Why wouldn’t you retire and let the network hire a couple of recent Columbia journo grads with 150 grand in student debt?”
Tom Brokaw has two choices...
He can go to the poison, slash, burn doctors, and probably die. Or he can go alternative therapies and probably live.
The over all ‘cure’ rate for the poison, slash, burn doctors is about 5%. The over all cure rate for alternative therapies is about 50%. And remember, many who go the alternative route do so after their poison, slash, burn doctors have said we can’t do any more for you (used up their health insurance)and give them morphine, send them to hospice or home, telling them to get their affairs in order.
Oh gee that’s so damn sad.
Anyhoo, back to my chocolate chip cookie mmmm.
Who doesn’t?
No chemo for me if it comes to that.
Amazing News! Carman Cancer Free after Extensive Testing
http://www.breakingchristiannews.com/articles/display_art.html?ID=13315
By Jesus stripes we were healed.
ouch! that will leave a mark.
best wishes and may the therapy work out for you.
Of the three (at the time) network news anchors, Brokaw was the one I watched the most. He had that crisp Midwestern accent that really hit home.
These people should keep their illnesses private until they die and then let the family go public with what they were dealing with. This pre-announcing their battle with cancer feels wrong somehow.
But how else can he fight the courageous battle.
And yes, I have waited to find out if the tumor was malignant.
Was I courageous? If that means waiting until I was alone to cry and pray...then I should get a gold medal.
My father in law made six +years with two stem cell treatments. The second one at five years after his wife died from pancreatic cancer( 1 1/2 yr).Tough times.
“Brokaw is a human too.”
Strict proof is requested.
>”No chemo for me if it comes to that”<
My FRiend.
I have Leukemia and have been through a total of ten weeks of Chemotherapy since my Diagnosis back in 2005. I was in Remission for about three years, then had to go back in.
I’m sure that I will end up there again, maybe sooner than later, but I don’t stress over it. It is what it is and that’s what I get for spending my Life not smoking, drinking or doing drugs, LOL.
Chemotherapy wasn’t the most pleasant thing that has happened to me, but it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be.
Today’s Chemotherapy is nothing like the past. Mine consisted of a cocktail of three drugs, and my treatment is the only thing that is allowing me to type this Post rather than being part of the Free Republic Remembrance List.
I hope you will reconsider your position if you are ever faced with that choice of treatment. We need all the FReepers we can get. God Bless...
Prayers for his health.
poor cancer has Brokaw.....
I was diagnosed with Her2 breast cancer in 2009 and went through chemo. It was bad but I would do it again. After the chemo was over about 6 months later my doc asked......well? I said....you tried to kill me and it didn’t work. lol
As I said when Teddy Kennedy (D-HELL) died...
I feel sad that some people are more afraid of the Treatment than the Disease based on what they “heard”.
I appreciate every day that I wake up and open my eyes and I am one that thanks Evil Big Pharma for making it possible.
God Bless and never give up the fight. If you have a chance, look up the Threads that fellow FReeper Jeff Head Posted about his very extensive Cancer Treatment.
Jeff is a fighter, and seeing what he went through will make you appreciate the wonderful age of Medicine that we are fortunate enough to live in. He is a hero to me, as was my Late B-I-L that fought an uphill battle with Esophageal Cancer. You take good care...
November will be five years since my diagnosis and so far I am clean. I had horrible chemo responses. They determined that I was allergic to one of the meds I was given but they decided to just counter act with different meds to treat the responses. Yes I am thankful for every day. Her2 is a very aggressive cancer and by the time I found the stage 2 lump it was already in my lymph nodes so it was either chemo or die.
Take care......
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