Posted on 02/25/2018 6:10:05 PM PST by Baladas
Arizona Cardinals wide receiver Larry Fitzgerald paid a visit Saturday to one of his team’s biggest cheerleaders: Sen. John McCain.
McCain’s wife, Cindy, posted a photo of the trio on Instagram at the McCains’ Arizona cabin.
Fitzgerald and the 81-year-old Arizona Republican lawmaker — who has been battling an aggressive form of brain cancer for months — have been friendly for years.
In December, the football player penned a touching tribute to McCain for Sports Illustrated.
“When I think about Christmas, and I think about Senator McCain, I think of giving,” Fitzgerald wrote.
In a nod to McCain’s military service, Fitzgerald continued, “The sacrifices John McCain has made for our country, and especially the men and women he served with in the military, are incredible. I saw the very jail cell where he was held as a POW, and I tried to imagine what it must have been like to be him. I took a photo of myself next to his flight suit, the suit he was wearing when he got shot down. So powerful. So meaningful. Those images will never leave my mind.”
And of McCain’s health, Fitzgerald wrote, “Sen. John McCain again finds himself in a battle. This time it’s with cancer, and the treatment he’s undergoing is exhausting. I’ll wish him a Merry Christmas today, and I pray he lives another 20 years.”
McCain was diagnosed with glioblastoma over the summer. In July, he began chemotherapy and radiation treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix.
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He looks like he’s dying of cancer.
Well he looks pretty good considering he IS dying of cancer as you reminded us.
The first thing that went through my mind when I saw that picture was the word “frail”.
He may look thinner, but he’s not frail. If he were, his daughter wouldn’t be on the TV show every day. If/when she takes an absence from TV, then we can say he might be ill.
He looks about like a friend of mine looked a couple of mos before he died of cancer.
I've been around enough to know..great people that died.
And John McCain...won't be in my eye's one of them....but death in this world is permanent. And he will not escape that..nor will I.
I don't like him..bu I wish him a good journey....It's his choice.
Appreciate your kind words. Seen a number of old friends pass away recently along with my own health scares. Life is too short to waste it being consumed with hatred for others.
Too bad we can’t repeat the last part of the movie Shooter.
So two songbirds in that picture.
“March 15.”
Is there a dead pool?
In the voice of Bob Wiley from the movie What About Bob....”Not good!”
Dude....
Just getting cozy....
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