Biden’s office announced his illness Sunday afternoon.

  • Monument@lemmy.sdf.org
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    16 hours ago

    I don’t disagree that there is a strategy of downplaying not just Biden’s, but every politician’s health conditions.

    I used to have this absolutely incredible writing professor, who, at 85, told us on the first day of class that he was dying, and had been for 4 years. He even had a blog about his reflections on mortality that he invited us to read. He had prostate cancer. I don’t remember the details, but they couldn’t operate to remove it or do chemo, but it was the kind that is hormone sensitive. They gave him a drug that destroyed his body’s ability to produce testosterone, so the cancer just stopped growing. He died at 90 - 9 years after his diagnosis. 10% extra life for him.

    No two people and prognosis’ are alike but the possibility exists they might be telling the truth about managing it.

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      Some people just defy the odds sometimes, my grandpa was supposed to die 5 or 6 times before he finally did. Multiple times the doctors told us they could no longer do anything for him, only for him to recover and get into the same situation with another issue some years later.

      He lived on borrowed time ever since my mom was born yet lived to see his first grand-grandchild born some 30+ years later.