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McCain ‘staring death in the face’ will inspire ‘good choices,’ Dem lawmaker says

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Posted by Fred 2017-09-24 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11138 views ] Top

#1 His brain tumor was supposed to be the size of a baseball.

Let's be honest. Nobody with a baseball sized brain tumor is going to be thinking coherently. I admit if I had a tumor on my brain that size I would need to consider anything I had to say to be possibly bat-shit crazy.

Posted by 3dc 2017-09-24 02:07|| 2017-09-24 02:07|| Front Page Top

#2 Once hospice care is deemed necessary, will there be some sort of Skyped 'up or down' McCain hand signal or Morse Code eyelid blink? These issues should be discussed and planned for in a timely manner.

[sarc off]

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-24 03:41|| 2017-09-24 03:41|| Front Page Top

#3 Well, there is precedent. Back in the day, Bob Woodward claimed a bedside interview with William Casey at a time when Casey's family said the patient was permanently beyond coherence.

Posted by M. Murcek 2017-09-24 07:18|| 2017-09-24 07:18|| Front Page Top

#4 ....patient was permanently beyond coherence.

Both McCane and Clinton have already arrived at that stage.

Posted by Besoeker 2017-09-24 07:40|| 2017-09-24 07:40|| Front Page Top

#5 More like a drowning man grasping at anything or anyone to avoid the Big Suck. Envious (Publius Servilius) Casca.

Posted by Procopius2k 2017-09-24 07:55|| 2017-09-24 07:55|| Front Page Top

#6 Yes, a two year wait for his state ration of treatment would be very inspirational

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2017-09-24 09:10|| 2017-09-24 09:10|| Front Page Top

#7 Yes, #5. Never made the right choices in real life. The maverick, BS. Like a person drowning he will pull others down with him.

Posted by Dale 2017-09-24 10:42|| 2017-09-24 10:42|| Front Page Top

#8 What an A hole.

Posted by newc 2017-09-24 14:25|| 2017-09-24 14:25|| Front Page Top

#9 Another health problem in that regards... I had some eye events, at one point, that were hinting at a retina problem but my eye doc didn't see anything so I went the whole 9 yards with the brain scan and everything. Turned out the eye doc's eyes were not good enough and I did have an eye problem.

But the point I am making is that you don't get a baseball sized brain tumor without some warning symptoms. Did this guy have any awareness of his own body's signals? Any self-awareness?

Posted by 3dc 2017-09-24 14:52|| 2017-09-24 14:52|| Front Page Top

#10 Right now I'm thinking of the last two years or so of my late employee G's cancer treatment and how it affected his ability to work.

I think he eventually 'beat' the cancer but that the depressed immune system was probably a factor in his death.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2017-09-24 19:49|| 2017-09-24 19:49|| Front Page Top

#11 And just because it seems relevant:

I also think if we're gonna have communism we should go full bore, that The F-ing Guy and the silicone valley robber barons like F-er-burg need to be in house trailers just like everyone else.

Posted by Thing From Snowy Mountain 2017-09-24 19:50|| 2017-09-24 19:50|| Front Page Top

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