Gen X are older than Millennials....

Well if you don’t know them they must not exist then. Clearly you have met every patient at every hospital in the country, and I am just a liar. Enjoy your evening.

Ok then, I guess the payment plan I had for my own MRI, spinal tap, and blood work from when I was uninsured was fake? As is the one my friend has with Sloan Kettering to make up the difference of what insurance and Medicaid didn’t pay for her kid? Or the one she has for herself with Healthpark in Fort Myers from the…

If he was a veteran living in the right state he would be getting the same level of care. My friend’s dad had a spinal injury a few years ago and ended up in Boston at a VA hospital that specializes in that, and was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s right when he was about to be discharged. He got all the benefits of being in…

You never know. My father got misdiagnosed at the Mayo.

No snark intended, but when I hear someone survived pancreatic cancer, I question the validity of the diagnosis.

I hope you didn’t think this was snarky. I was just trying to state facts and correct the bullshit the news is putting out (i.e. mean survival rate is 14 months to 3 years). In most cases it is less than 1 year.

Agreed. I loathe his politics, but glioblastoma is a hideous disease.

But you also have to understand that Republicans absolutely LOVE to pride themselves as the party that “Supports the troops” and “Honors their sacrifice” while it’s those godless American hating liberals that are throwing things at veterans and calling them baby killers

My father had brain cancer, and the way John talked reminded me of him it made me cry.

Yes. My grandfather had one. His personality changed a lot before the end, and he even became violent.

yea! because being a vindictive partisan asshole toward something that happened 9 years ago before being a goddamn human is always the right choice!

My brother died of the same cancer. Sorry about your grandmother.

Yeah, it’s been interesting to watch someone destroy their legacy in a desperate attempt to stay relevant. And to think he willingly hitched his wagon to Trump’s. Wonder if there was some senility involved as a result of the cancer. He was bizarrely incoherent at some of the hearings this year. He could have gone out…

I thought it was dementia, but the tumor makes sense. Poor guy. At least he has health insurance....

In some cases it’s less a “lack of empathy” and more the fact they’re completely cut off from the real-world, something that affects both sides of the aisle.

Not to mention he doesn’t even suck. He picked a really bad running mate, big deal. He was also a war hero and seemed like a decent guy. If political bullshit is a reason to tell a guy who just got a death sentence “fuck you,” then you’re a dickhead (looking at you jujymonkey)

Same. My grandma had colon cancer and my grandpa has incurable colorectal cancer. Nobody deserves that. Nobody.

No. I don’t care how much the guy sucks, I wouldn’t wish glioblastoma on anyone. It took my grandmother in six months and it’s awful.

Also, D&Cs are an absolutely critical aspect of women’s health care entirely apart from abortion. I bet we all know multiple mothers who would have died or become sterile without one - it is not uncommon to need one after an incomplete miscarriage or retained products of conception after the birth of a child. I can…