I was saddened to read that cartoonist Scott Adams is suffering from prostate cancer.
The 67-year-old made the announcement on his podcast “Coffee With Scott Adams” just one day after Joe Biden announced he has prostate cancer that metastasized and spread to his bones.
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Adams said he has weeks or maybe a few months to live.
“I have the same cancer that Joe Biden has,” Adams said. “I also have prostate cancer that has also spread to my bones. I’ve had it longer than he’s had it – well, longer than admitting that he’s had it so my life expectancy is maybe this summer.”
“I can tell you that I don’t have good days,” Adams said describing the cancer as “intolerable.”
Adams said he is in excruciating pain and uses a walker to get around.
There's more at the link.
Cancer is a pretty horrible way to go (although I'm not sure there are many good ways). I'm sorry that Mr. Adams must endure it. He's made an enormous contribution to American workplace culture over the years, and his cartoons brought many a smile to my face, even before I moved to this country. He will be sorely missed.
Say a prayer for him, and for his loved ones, if you're so inclined.
Peter
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I would make the argument that cancer is one of the better ways to go. Why? because you know that the end is nearing and there's a lot more time to make absolutely sure your Eternity is in order. A sudden and unexpected death deprives you of that.
Even the longest of lives are finite and therefore embarrassingly short in the face of eternity. Jesus is the only way - nothing else works.
When I first read a headline about this I thought it was in poor taste for him to joke about FJBs plight. I had no idea it was true. So sorry he has to go through this. He has provided many a chuckle to many with his cartoon strip and later his podcast. I wish he had been joking about it now.
I lost a grandfather to prostate cancer, but I was maybe 10 and didn't really notice much. My father in law passed from it 25 years later and his suffering was very evident. Like you say, not a good way to go.
The really unusual side to Scott Adams' announcement is that earlier in the evening, I watched an hour long interview with Scott by Nicole Shanahan on The Blaze. It was recorded back before the November election, back before she and RFK Jr. dropped out of the race. I learned more about Scott than I expected to, as well as about her.
Not to speak evil of the sick, but as I recall he was one of the biggest and most vocal rah-rah supporters of the Covid "vaccine", one of the side effects of which is 'turbo cancers'. Wonder if what is has is one? Just sayin'.
Lost my father and first wife to colon cancer, bone cancer took one of my Grandfathers... I expect something will get me.
One the signs of a great (technical) workplace is the absence of Dilbert cartoons all over .... and it's not by executive diktat of censorship. These places are vanishingly rare. As in, you are more likely to encounter a unicorn.
and we are poorer as a society because of it
I've been dealing with prostate cancer off and on for 16 years, most of that time off but it appears to be on again. This is not a pleasant disease. Mostly curable if caught early, once it's in the wild, out of the prostate, it is only treatable but not curable. Once out, the cancer cells have an affinity for the major bones and spine. I suspect, before prostate cancer was identified in the early 1900s, that men were thought to have died of bone cancer. The cancer seems to "feed" on testosterone so suppressing that through hormone therapy can suppress the cancer. Eventually, it can become hormone resistant so other treatments are used to slow the disease. Biden has been getting hormone treatment long before the announcement. Otherwise they wouldn't know it works for him. Scott Adams may be getting pinpoint radiation to cancerous bone lesions because hormone therapy has failed. I'm sure there's more being done for him, but, again, treatment can only slow, not stop the disease. Eventually, it becomes a race between the cancer or something else. The cancer wins some 36,000 times a year. None of us are getting out of here alive.
Low Vit D has been correlated with cancer. My family has a history so I take large doses and I'm out in the sun most days to get as much as I can. Dr. John Campbell on YouTube has a lot of videos on the subject, it is a focus subject for him. Not saying it will cure cancer, but it seems to give you a shot at not starting.
I remember he had a why didn’t you tell me better, why didn’t I listen to you, video about the vaccine. I can’t help but think vaccine turbo cancer. ☹️
My husband died a few months ago from cancer. It was horrible to watch what it was doing to him. Sadly I did not know what to expect and sometimes had to leave the room so he wouldn't see my cry. He was in constant terrible pain. He had morphine, oxycodone and still the pain was off that silly 1-10 scale. My broken heart is quiet now. Healing. I miss him so much. His children from a previous to me marriage were horrible. absolutely cruel to both of us. I hope if they become terminal, demented, unable his children pick out a cheap nursing home for them to languish in like they tried so hard to do to my husband.
Prayers for Mr Adams, his loved ones, family, friends, for his medical care team. Prayers have been sent, candle lit, good thoughts and smiles sent too.
I second that sentiment regarding Vit D. Having been an ER nurse during covid (can we use that word now?) All of the patients that ended up in the ICU and eventually perished; had critically low Vit D levels.
Also, if the diagnoses gives you an "end by date"; why can't we loosen up the restrictions on Ivermectin and
Hydroxychloroquine? I mean y'all say the fella is gonna die anywho; why not use them as a control sample for those meds effectiveness!??!?!
There's a reason why , though it may have some salubrious effects on stamina & such as I get older, I avoid the "T boosters" like the plague. I suspect the Creator made diminishing T levels as we age for a reason, and short-circuiting thew process is probably not a good idea in the long run.
On the bright side(?), I believe the reason cancer is a leading cause of death among older adults is that we're living long enough to contract it. Other things used to carry us off at a much tenderer age in the Good Old days.
And I'm still waiting for the other shoe to drop from all the schmutz I inhaled from the burning Kuwaiti oil fields back in '91 . . .
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