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[wombat]

If you're right, I wish someone would tell me how to get in touch with the person in the shadow government who is in charge of replacing light bulbs. Because pretty soon I'm going to be working these damn snakes in complete darkness.

[Ruta Bagas]

It's a shadow government.

They don't use lightbulbs.

[wombat]

If they don't use lightbulbs how do they cast a shadow??

[Ruta Bagas]

With the glow of their tobacco.

[jaydub]

You two are turning me into a can whore.

[JorgeFabregas]

So apparently he has a malignant brain tumor.

[jaydub]

"The usual course of treatment includes combinations of various forms of radiation and chemotherapy," they said.

..followed by embalming and burial.  Not a fan of the fellow, but that isn't an end I'd wish on anyone.

[Carlos del Vaca]

Yeah, at his age I might be like "fuck radiation and chemo, I'm done."  Why prolong your life for six months if those six months completely suck.

(My opinion, I could be wrong.)

Also, when I see this thread title, I always think it's either referring to Teodor, or perhaps to Teddy in the Nationals' Presidents Race.

[Choop]

yeah, it's time to break out the cigars and scotch, and ride the ride to the end.

[AlohaDawg]

In the world of strange coincidences department, Mr. Senator Kennedy now has something in common with my dad.

So now, two of the 9,000 Americans this year diagnosed with a relatively rare cancer are people I've alternately hated and grudgingly, occasionally respected. One I love no matter what, though.

I've learned a lot about this condition over the past months, and one reason I'm trying to get back home as quickly as possible is to get one last Father's day in (and be there for my kids, too).

It's a tough ride, and my siblings and my relationship with my dad is worth a book or two by itself, so I'm sure Senator Kennedy is going through, I hope, some self-examination and trying to make things right if they need be. The prognosis is pretty grim.

My dad already did the Radiation and the Chemo. Now is the waiting part.

[Limmo]

Dude.

I just want to wish you well, 'dawg.  My father has been in and out of the hospital for all of 2008 with no signs of a respite ( not with cancer, though ), and it just sucks to have someone you care about go through it. 

[AlohaDawg]

So, for closure's sake, my Dad passed on. It's been sad and interesting, my family has always been like a bunch of magnets placed the wrong way around and glued down, so we are always proximate and always pushing away.

My Mom is the glue.

It's a long and weird story about incompatible cultures and expectations, hard work, overt courageous acts, and reasonable success that may or may not ransom cowardly acts bred of inadequacy, history and pain.

All for another time.