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This is the most public health crisis I've ever seen. Can you recall a cancer battle so public that we're informed about like every appointment and given regular updates? Usually you get a public announcement and then the disappear until things are under control. That said it's been somewhat educational. I'd never even heard of liposarcoma before this.
 
This is the most public health crisis I've ever seen. Can you recall a cancer battle so public that we're informed about like every appointment and given regular updates? Usually you get a public announcement and then the disappear until things are under control. That said it's been somewhat educational. I'd never even heard of liposarcoma before this.

I too once beleived that this could've been an excellent opportunity to educate the public about cancer and its treatment; I thought the same thing about the Ford's Cut the Waist challenge and the dangers of obesity; and then both times I've seen those possibilities shattered by these two self-serving buffoons, to the point where we can't even be sure we're even getting an accurate take on the most basic information.
 
Maybe he doesn't like all the socialist medicine here. It's icky. Ew!

In the US they have Obamacare (i.e you are forced to buy health insurance from private insurance companies). They call that socialized medicine, or at least that's what Faux News and the Republicans wants you to believe. Happy chemo therapy Rob.
 
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Very well said YPQ, but we've been through the prequel so we know what to look forward to. I'm expecting a heavenly choir of angels to hover over his bedside throughout his upcoming battle assuring him that all will be forgiven.
 
A doc on Newstalk 1010 says this latest development is really bad news for Ford. He says when it returns like this it usually means it's incurable as there are likely now cancer cells throughout his body. Man, that's got to be tough to go through all that he went through only to have to do it all again.

He is hardly the only one - walk into PMH and you'd see that his tragedy - if you may call it that - is none too out of the ordinary. I don't think it is fair to privilege his experiences in that regard when recurrence is such a common outcome for a lot of cancer patients (and many with far, far less wherewithal to deal with the financial challenges that goes with it).

AoD
 
Rob has talked about this. He still has a hole in his abdomen to drain fluids that build up inside of him. Ergo the daily visits from the nurse. I gather fluid build up can be an issue after abdominal surgery, but does anybody know how long it normally remains an issue?

It's pretty weird. I'm not a surgeon, but it isn't especially normal to leave a drain in for months. However, it would not be unusual - especially as a result of a big invasive surgery like the one in May - to end up with a stoma, whether an ileostomy or colostomy. My gut feeling (no pun intended) is that Ford has a colostomy and that is what his "drain" is.

A doc on Newstalk 1010 says this latest development is really bad news for Ford. He says when it returns like this it usually means it's incurable as there are likely now cancer cells throughout his body. Man, that's got to be tough to go through all that he went through only to have to do it all again.

It is probably incurable. Not necessarily untreatable, but the prognosis gets worse here on out.
 
In the US they have Obamacare. They call that socialized medicine (i.e you are forced to buy health insurance from private insurance companies). Or at least that's what Faux News and the Republicans wants you to believe. Happy chemo therapy Rob.
In Rob's case since he's not a citizen and hasn't applied for Obamacare its purely pay as you go or since he's a non-resident it may be a pre-pay. He wouldn't leave the city now that his ability to pee is a top media story. (Thanks for that detail Rob. Dougie really liked that.)

And Rob's used to paying for his decades of self-medication.
 
I just saw Rob talking to the media for the first time on CP2Ford and he really does look and sound scared this time. He wasn't even like this for the initial cancer diagnosis.
 
They don't wait for weeks or months before seeking treatment so they can drain a few extra drops of political sympathy nectar from their grave condition.

Weeks or months of excruciating pain? We've got to sit on this until those books come out Douggie. The COI trial is going to pick up steam again soon and the Prime Minister is coming to Fordland, I can't miss that, that's gold. No, we wait until the time is just right. These bastards won't know what hit them. BOOM MOAR CANCER!

i hope someone asks him why he waited so long. you'd think they would have asked him that today...
 
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He should be scared. I can't believe this took him by surprise. I guess reality has finally hit home. He can get away with all kinds of crap and escape the clutches of integrity commissioners, police officers, lawyers and judges, but he can't escape cancer.

We shall see if and how he re-prioritizes his life.

AoD
 
It's pretty weird. I'm not a surgeon, but it isn't especially normal to leave a drain in for months. However, it would not be unusual - especially as a result of a big invasive surgery like the one in May - to end up with a stoma, whether an ileostomy or colostomy. My gut feeling (no pun intended) is that Ford has a colostomy and that is what his "drain" is.

i think he has wound dehiscence...
 
From "Mayor Rob Ford: Uncontrollable" (I just finished it): "According to Nick, in the last days of the campaign, Doug had asked Nick what would happen if Rob died in office. Doug thought he should replace him. I looked at Nick, stunned. "Are you serious?" Perhaps Doug was joking, but it rang true. If the Ford family had been elected mayor, as Doug believed, naturally the throne would pass to family if Rob died."

Interesting read, probably not for everyone. It's also not told in chronological order which had me almost wanting to start a chart so I could keep track of what happened when and how close was it to this gaff or that incident. Towhey's narrative was a little "Look at me handle this!" sometimes, but it was also quite funny in places as well (I lol'd). I found it to be quite the page-turner if only to find out how Doug was going to manage to out-a-hole himself from the previous page. I guess I'm easily amused.
Omg. I knew it. $50 says he "dies" in the USA. Poof gone zing done
 
warning... this is warmington...
Some bad news in the afternoon and, despite being in excruciating pain, in the evening at home Ford was scouring through council expense reports for the first nine months of this year.

“He hates seeing taxpayers’ money being wasted,” explains his chief of staff Dan Jacobs, who was also working late. “Every penny matters to him.”
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“He told me to keep working because he wants to issue a press release,” said Jacobs, who knows there is nothing he can do to change his boss’ mind about taking some time off.

Jacobs urged him to rest after hearing the bad news at Mount Sinai, but the stubborn Ford instead “was combing through these reports himself.”
http://www.torontosun.com/2015/10/29/health-setback-hasnt-knocked-fight-out-of-rob-ford
 
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