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Current Events => Politics => Topic started by: lastparker on August 26, 2009, 01:56:17 PM
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Why should politicians give a rat's butt if they condemn the public to medical care that would make the worst HMO look good? They will never be at the mercy of some government hack deciding their fate.....
Kara Kennedy was sitting in a doctor's office at Johns Hopkins Hospital with her father, Senator Edward M. Kennedy, when she got the news. Not only did she have cancer of the lung, it was inoperable. The doctor told her she might have less than a year to live.
For Senator Kennedy, the prognosis was unacceptable. Kennedy thanked the doctor and headed out the door. Over the next several days, he feverishly immersed himself in the subject of his daughter's cancer, and ultimately found a Boston surgeon who operated on her. Five years later, she is cancer-free and runs 5 miles a day, her mother said.
"He really saved her life," said Joan B. Kennedy, the senator's former wife and the mother of Kara. "I am so grateful that he is my children's father because he has always gotten them the best medical care."
Long before he was diagnosed with a malignant tumor on his brain, Kennedy had an extraordinary and intimate relationship with cancer. Two of his three children have faced severe forms of the disease, while a third had a noncancerous tumor on his spine. His former wife was also treated for breast cancer in 2005.
But Kennedy, 76, has met his children's cancers head on, arming himself with an arsenal of information and opinion that helped them to vanquish the disease. He has prayed and embraced experimental treatments and sought third opinions, and sometimes more. Many close to the family believe that the same tactics that he employed with his two children, both of whom faced possible death and are now cancer-free, will instruct and fortify him in his own battle against the disease.
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http://www.boston.com/news/health/articles/2008/05/25/kennedy_his_children_and_cancer/