limprichard

He's actually talked about it on late-night tv. He finds the Onion Biden hilarious. He should go as himself for Halloween. Down to Mexico, in a little cantina...

“You’ll have to speak up; I’m wearing a towel.”

My wife volunteered for the Red Cross down by the WTC in the weeks after 9/11. This past December, at age 41, she was diagnosed with adenocarcinoma. It's a lung cancer that can develop in non-smokers and smokers alike, although my lady smoked for 20 years, so it's anyone's guess as to whether it was her smoking history, the air at WTC, or some combination of both. However, we found it telling that her surgeon was stunned; he never sees it in anyone that isn't in their sixties.

My wife is fortunate to have a regular oncologist and an integrative care oncologist, who (if you don't know) does amazing work blending Eastern and Western treatments of cancer. In our first meeting he knew exactly where the cancer came from. We, too, were lucky: though it was stage 3A, it was a very localized primary lung cancer; they felt confident they got it out with the surgery, but then they threw serious-ass chemo at it, and we're in week two of radiation now. So there's one more success story (for now).

I'm glad you're doing better, and I wish you and your family all the strength and support I can telepathically impart.

If you read actual testimony given before the 9/11 Committee, you become overwhelmingly convinced that no new legislation was needed post-9/11. All they had to do to prevent 9/11 was to enforce laws and protocols that were already in place. The new laws were largely angry political theatre, with unfortunate and long-reaching consequences for our freedoms.