Posted on 05/14/2018 2:00:10 PM PDT by NRx
Former Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid has been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer and underwent surgery on Monday to remove the tumor, his family announced.
Reid, who led the Senate Democratic Caucus for a dozen years until his retirement in early 2017, had the surgery at Johns Hopkins Cancer Center in Baltimore, and now plans to have chemotherapy treatments, according to the statement from his family on Monday.
“His doctors caught the problem early during a routine screening and his surgeons are confident that the surgery was a success and that the prognosis for his recovery is good,” the Reid family said. “He is now out of surgery, in good spirits and resting with his family. He is grateful to his highly skilled team of doctors and to all who have sent and continue to send their love and support.”
Reid, 78, has spent most of his time in retirement in Las Vegas and has traveled to Washington just a handful of times, according to a person familiar with his travels. He, along with former House speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), serves as a co-chair of the MGM Resorts International Public Policy Institute at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, and he also is a fellow at the university’s law school.
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I’d like to wish him well but...
With Reid gone and McCain gone it really is an end of an era. A bad one. And with the cleaning out of our government and Trump’s spine, we just might turn this Country around.
So which one will get the full bladder post interment brigade first? Hairy or mclame.
As a late friend of mine wrote to me about a year before he passed away:
“we all walk the same way, nothing much we can do about it.”
Well Harry’s been a pain in our a$$es long enough.
If you can’t say anything good about a dying Senator, say nothing.
Harry Reid nothing.
Hard to keep it classy for this SOB but okay
May God help him to beat this cancer. In Jesus’ name, Amen.
I thought pancreatic cancer was not curable period.
Is it to early to express my thoughts?
1. health from cancer and ...
2. that conscience thingy.
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And hopefully, he can make many more and smell the tourists any time he pleases.
Minus nothing
I wonder if they did the whipple procedure? Its an old school frankenstein type surgery, but the only one available. They tried it on my Dad but the cancer had spread. They sewed him back up and said 6-8 months. Make it count.
Pancreatic Cancer.
He has less than a 2% chance of living 3 more years. And they’ll all be miserable.
“Judge not, lest ye be judged.” REALLY hard to do sometimes.
It claimed one of my brothers in three months.
I hope he has a quick recovery. Such a hard thing to have to go through.
Reid needs a soul transplant.
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