prognosis is never the best whenever the only thing that attract people who can cure a disease is money.
Some stuff money can't buy, see Steve Jobs.
Senator John McCain Has Been Diagnosed with Brain Cancer
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prognosis is never the best whenever the only thing that attract people who can cure a disease is money.
Some stuff money can't buy, see Steve Jobs.
I have no idea what this has to do with my commentary.
roughly, whatever the prognosis, IF the person, who is ill, is "lucky" enough to have those who can cure whatever the person has, "show up" in their lives, even final or aggressive prognostics are not final.
It's like so many other areas in life. There are outliers and various degrees of standard deviation.
You always hope for the best but long term survival for glioblastoma is dismal. In the elderly it is even worse. If you are younger, it helps, and it is a roll of the dice as to where the tumor first starts in your brain. Sometimes you can get another two years if it starts in a less vital part of the brain. Patients often get a good result from their first surgery which lightens the cancer load a bit. We saw that with Beau Biden and Ted Kennedy who both had glioblastoma and I have seen it with the people I know died from it. They can get a little better with the treatment but it does not stop the clock from ticking much. Keep in mind what I said above unless they are some kind of two standard deviation case.
Younger patients often survive a bit lonnger because- well they are younger- but also because younger people get more aggressive treatment for almost everything compared to the elderly.
Off topic question here in a way... but I was wondering....why can't McCain still vote for the healthcare bill even if he is in Arizona? I mean it must be a rule obviously... but its a silly rule. That's like a broker saying you can only trade from your desktop, no phone in orders allowed. I mean if he's mentally competent to vote... shouldn't he be allowed to vote from a remote location?
Nope old school rules, they have actually wheeled senators to the floor for a vote if im not mistaken, hes got to put his vote in down there, and its a joke that John stewart exposed a couple years ago because people would just reach out and press the button to vote for all kinds of people who werent there.
Pretty sure you got to be on the house floor though.
Yeah its probably been a rule from the very start.
Seems like it should change though.
But then those f'rs would never show up for work.
I agree, here is the video i was talking about, guess its called "Ghost voting" where state legislators are simply to lazy to show up so 1 guy votes for like 8 people, i cant embed the video, but check out the link below.
Pretty fucking depressing that this is how laws are made in many counties and states.
I could have sworn either Jon Oliver, or Jon stewart skewered this at one point.
http://www.newschannel5.com/story/17796991/nc5-investigates-state-lawmakers-ghost-voting
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It was Jon Oliver shitting on a congresswoman from Texas for wanting to pass voter ID laws while voting for others not present.
Oh, not showing up for work is not a violation of senate rules either.
There have been one or two senators who went 2-3 years without casting a single vote.
Good work if you can get it.
-TFT