Ted Kennedy has cancer. Jon Lester has cancer.
It is possible that last night, Senator Ted Kennedy watched on television as Boston Red Sox pitcher Jon Lester, a cancer patient, tossed a no-hitter against the Kansas City Royals. He probably knew at the time, though we are just now learning, that Kennedy himself has brain cancer.
He has been talking and joking with family and friends while undergoing a battery of tests that revealed the malignant tumor, a glioma in the left parietal lobe, according to the hospital.
I do not know where they’ve staged it, but if it is a T3 or T4, especially with any lymph node involvement, the end is near. I always pictured Kennedy retiring from the Senate and moving down to Florida to live out his many remaining days at the family’s compound down there, writing a memoir and making all sorts of pronouncements on this or that. Cancer is an ignoble disease, and this is a horrible end.
While I was being treated for BOT cancer, a high school-aged young man was being treated for cancer of the brain. They moved him to Pittsburgh for the care he really needed, and I haven’t heard a word about him since. I got in for my six-month exam at the beginning of next month, and I’ll ask, but this one had the benefit of his youthful body. Ted Kennedy is old, and he has not taken the best care of himself.
It is going to be tough.
May 20th, 2008 at 1:13 pm
coward.
May 20th, 2008 at 1:55 pm
Cancer is a frightening thing, but I didn’t blink. I took everything it had to give.
The comments are on, fool.
May 20th, 2008 at 6:17 pm
Would Edward Kennedy’s ADVANCED BRAIN cancer treatment be allowed by the British Health System? My buddy in the National Health Service says probably not.
Given his age and advanced cancer, I’ll bet the socialized medicine machine certainly would not have paid for that $10000 helicopter ride that Mr. Kennedy got from his private island paradise to the hospital.
Let’s let Ted go over to Great Britain to have the doctors at the National Health Service treat his cancer.
Of course, I would think that he’d be denied cancer therapy as Ann Marie Rogers (a breast cancer patient) was denied an anticancer drug by the British court. Too bad she was not allowed to buy private health insurance by the socialized medicine folks in England.
Sorry, Ted, no cancer treatment for you. Health care rationing, you know. Just read the fine print in Mr. Obama’s health plan. It will all be clear then.
Also, Ted Kennedy is going to have to eventually answer for Mary Jo Kopechne, in this life or after. Ted, it’s getting about time to fess up to your past.
May 20th, 2008 at 6:59 pm
He will have a lot of lives for which to answer, Troy, most of whom were not even given the chance to be born.
But really, cancer is not the way Ted Kennedy should go.
May 20th, 2008 at 10:17 pm
Ted Kennedy left Mary Jo Kopechne to drown in his car. Mary Jo could have been rescued and revived if he has not ran off like a scared rabbit. He was married and was cheating on his wife with his bimbo. Ted Kennedy waited 10 HOURS to report the crime. Kennedy has NO HONOR and is a scoundrel, a liar, and a murder. Kennedy would take your gun away TODAY if he could so that you could not even protect your own family. I say, God take him quickly, the sooner the better.
May 25th, 2008 at 9:38 am
Anyone else who drowned a woman, whether accidentally or on purpose, would have been arrested and convicted of manslaughter and served some prison time.
I can’t say that Teddy’s cancer is karma, or what goes around, comes around, otherwise it would have happened long ago, not after a lifetime of basking in the public eye, good times, and every luxury that illegal booze money can buy (not that booze should be illegal, just sayin’ where the money came from).
I’m not gleeful but, really, I don’t much care. As the kids say, See Ya! Wouldn’t wanna be ya!
One can only hope that one reaps what is sown and that Teddy will spend eternity in an uncomfortably warm place.
Dead Girls Tell No Tales Regards, TWC