Tuesday, March 27, 2007
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Snow's Cancer Returns; He Says He'll Beat it Again
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Posted by:
Mary Katharine Ham at
10:42 AM
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 This time, in his liver. After having his entire colon removed in 2005, doctors found a suspicious growth six months ago, which was removed Monday and determined to be malignant. Doctors determined that it was cancerous, and found during the surgery, which was exploratory, that his cancer had metastasized, or spread, to his liver, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said. She said Snow is comfortable and feeling fine after his surgery and has pledged to aggressively fight the disease with an as-yet-to-be-determined chemotherapy treatment course. He will be inthe hospital recovering from the surgery, a major procedure, for about a week. "He said he's going to beat it again," Perino said in an emotional morning briefing with White House reporters. "When I talked to him, he was in very good spirits."
A Tony Snowism for the press corps even during tough times:Perino said Snow also gave her some instructions to pass on to reporters: "Tell them not to bug me." He also thanked reporters and others for the outpouring of good wishes he has received. Keep Snow in your prayers. Liver doesn't sound particularly promising, but I'm sure having to have his entire colon removed didn't sound promising a couple years ago. Allah finds that even Democratic Underground is sympathetic to the Snowman's plight. Glad to hear it.Update: The President's statement:
THE PRESIDENT: This morning I got a phone call from Tony Snow. He called me from the hospital. He told me that when they went in and operated on him they found cancer. It's a recurrence of the cancer that he thought that he had successfully dealt with in the past. His attitude is, one, that he is not going to let this whip him, and he's upbeat. My attitude is, is that we need to pray for him, and for his family. Obviously, a lot of folks here in the White House worry a lot about their friend, as do Laura and I. And so my message to Tony is, stay strong; a lot of people love you and care for you and will pray for you. And we're hoping for all the best. I'm looking forward to the day that he comes back to the White House and briefs the press corps on the decisions that I'm making and why I'm making them. In the meantime, I hope our fellow citizens offer a prayer to he and his family. Thank you.
Update: The courageous HuffPo 'Deathwatch for Freedom' continues. How could such a liar not have cancer?
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dsmith: It's called HOPE.
Hutch: What a nasty individual you must be.
Ohnny: Thank you for being decent enough to put aside your political differences and get down to the simple basics of humanity.
Lilly: I suspect it was a technical glitch. There have been many on this site recently, as they are apparently trying to update.
Tony will not do the rounds of the talk shows like the Edwardses, to garner the sympathy that John Edwards denies. I wish Mrs. Edwards only the very best and hope she fully recovers. |
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Elisabeth claimed:
"Funny, but I don't remember an article asking for prayers for Mrs. Edwards last week."
Last week, in an article about the Edwards' predicament, Mary Katharine Ham wrote:
"Very sad news. My prayers and thoughts are with their family. I'm no fan of their politics, but I wish them strength and a full, quick recovery for Elizabeth."
You were saying?
Since you spend SO much time here, I can only conclude you were hoping people wouldn't go back and see you were lying. Maybe people aren't as ghoulish as you are about people with opposing political views getting sick... or their loved ones, for that matter.
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Take your hateful remarks to another site where they belong. Don't come here just to purposely create trouble where there is none. There were many,many posts in support of Elizabeth Edwards and her family. |
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Funny, but I don't remember an article asking for prayers for Mrs. Edwards last week.
You only pray for Republicans with cancer?! |
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Earlier today I responded to this article (prayers Needed re Tony Snow's cancer), identified myself as a liberal Democrat, and expressed hope that the two horrible diagnoses we have heard this week, Elizabeth Edwards and Tony Snow, might serve to unite us politically divided folks in a commonality of compassion. I went on to say that when we hear about something like this happening to a famous person we need to look around us closer to home and see if there is a person in our neighborhood, church, school, or community who may have similar problems and be without family or social network to help. I suggested about a dozen things we can do in such a situation to be helpful. This was posted six or seven hours ago, and the post did go up. It is now gone. I wonder why. |
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really have to dig deep in their rotten souls to come up with their thoughts about Tony Snow's illness. I personally would not have attributed such a perversion to Elizabeth and John Edwards even though I disagree with Edwards politically. Pitiful human beings, Hutch and Smitty! |
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I cross-posted this on Daily Kos, where I spend a lot of time as I'm an anry liberal commie etc. etc. That disclaimer aside, however, my heart truly does go out and aches for Tony Snow and family. In June 2002, I was at my father's bedside, assisting my stepmother in changing his bloodied underwear, as he deteriorated in his final days of battle with colon cancer that had spread to his liver. I know the prognosis is decidedly bad for Tony Snow, because metastatic liver cancer does not generally present for a surgical solution. However, I know that, like my dad, he will fight this hard, and hopefully beat it again. There are various chemos and other new and experimental treatments, and you never know.
I don't care what anyone says here, and I'm as angry of a liberal as you'll find, but my well-wishes for Tony Snow and his family easily transcend all that. I truly hope the best for him. |
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Lying to the American public has to be very stressful and stress is a huge cancer risk factor.
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=3042
"The most chronic stressors - which change people's identities or social roles, are more beyond their control and seem endless -- were associated with the most global suppression of immunity; almost all measures of immune function dropped across the board. Duration of stress came into play: The longer the stress, the more the immune system shifted from potentially adaptive changes (such as those in the acute "fight or flight" response) to potentially detrimental changes, at first in cellular immunity and then in broader immune function. Thus, stressors that turn a person's world upside down and appear to offer no "light at the end of the tunnel" could have the greatest psychological and physiological impact.
Finally, Segerstrom and Miller found that age and disease status affected a person's vulnerability to stress-related decreases in immune function. They attribute this to how illness and age make it harder for the body to regulate itself"
Being a Bush Administration spokesperson must be very stressful.
It must be hard chuckling about Ramos & Compean.
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politics aside we are all americans. |
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Mr. Snow is an incredible man, father, and husband by all accounts that we know. We hope for the best and most strength for him and his family, always and that the Doctors/Specialists he's working with are somehow able to fight this once again. To lose an incredible person like Mr. Snow is, indeed, a loss not only to his family, but to all of us and all of mankind. His affect on this country and this world will not soon be forgotten.
I hope that most all responses will be of best wishes and not political vitriol; there's a time for debate and a time for respect. Certainly let's be humble enough to know the difference.
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Are you just trying to get a reaction, or are you just very uninformed? I assure you, there is no "unserious" spread of cancer to the liver. It means the cancer is in the blood, which passes throught he filter of the liver, and therefore could be elsewhere too. Once this happens, it is an omenous sign, and the genie is very hard to put back in the bottle...
Both Snow and Edwards will most likely die of their cancers, within the next few years. Vows of "fighting" and "beating it" are well and good, but statistics don't lie. However, the poltiical differences between Snow's and Edwards' situations are stark. Snow is not running for anything. Even his boss, Bush, is a lame duck. John Edwards is campaigning to be President. While I appreciate that he and his wife want to be positive and keep running, my first reaction is that if he truly cared about her and the time he has with her, running for President for the next year and a half seems a strange choice. That said, it is his and her decision. But it is natural to be skeptical of the motivations of a trial lawyer. Snow has no such potential political "gain" from playing up his diagnosis. Hard to call him an opportunist in that setting...
Good luck to both of them, and I hope they beat the odds! |
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One of the most dangerous emotions in American politics is a condition that evokes the sympathy of the public. Democratic Presidential candidate Edwards garnered increasing sympathy because of his wife's cancer diagnosis. Now we learn that the President's Republican spokesman has cancer. Watch how the Republicans play it. And watch the course of Snow's treatment and Snow's response to treatment, especially chemotherapy. Right now Bush is milking the situation in a public address on TV. In my view, it is unlikely that Snow has any serious condition. |
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Is he going to continue his job? Why is he not spending time with his family? Why is he putting his job and politics before his family? Snow is such an opportunistic jerk..
I paraphrases all the comments about the Edwardses and applied to Snow..
Cancer is bad whether it is the Edwardses or Snow or John Doe - how a family reacts to it is left to them. Hope Snow beats this and wish him well!
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