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Fitz
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I just heard this on the news. Does anyone have more info?
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jlw
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Lung cancer. Chemo treatments start next week.
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Fitz
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Does anyone know if he was a smoker ever?
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dsproule
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Nobody is saying he is (was) a smoker, but there is a type of lung cancer that occurs in non-smokers (usually heredity is involved).
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christineRN
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Fox interviewed a former coworker that stated he smoked for years even trying hypnosis to quite. He finally quit a few years ago.
They are going to do another report in him soon.
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Brad
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I hope and pray for a full and healthy recover for Jennings but I have to wonder that this combined with the removals of Brokaw and Rather do not indicate that God is still talking to us.
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aimee
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I will pray for him…
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Corinthians
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First of all, Brokaw wasn’t “removed”—he retired. Second of all…you think God’s most important priority right now is striking down network anchors?
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christineRN
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The retirement of Brokaw and Rather may not be a sign, but it certainly is an opportunity for the public to speak up about what they would like to see in the future of “news” anchors. The media may not change but at least we will have spoken.
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Faithful_2_Rome
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If that were the case, then Bill O Reilly and Rush Limbaugh’s scandels should have ended their careers. Brokaw and Jennings have done NOTHING publically approaching the shame and scandel that those two guys were caught at.
Sometimes, things just happen and people get sick, or get old or get caught…
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alekzander
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I wonder if he is thinking of the Almighty in a more positive light since he contemplates his mortality…he’s done nothing but try to discredit christianity as far back as I can remember,always came off as too much of an intellect to believe in Christ,the church,etc. Sometimes it takes a wack to the back of the head to make people wake up(Cancer in his case) I hope he comes to his senses and realizes there are things much bigger than himself in this world. I hope one day he will be in heaven just like I hope everyone who ever existed will receive heaven.
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CanonAlberic
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Faithful 2 Rome:
“Dittos!”
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Lisa_N
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Jennings was a smoker and while it’s better to quit, you cannot undo the damage done. As someone mentioned this morning, the news business was a “smoker’s paradise” and many network anchors were heavy smokers. I even date back to the days when they smoked on air. Didn’t Huntley and Brinkley smoke on camera? Anyway one of them died of lung cancer as I recall. This is one of the cancers where the majority of cases trace to one cause, smoking. Worse yet, smoking has more addictive power than opiates and is harder to quit.
Unfortunately I asked one of our docs why he’s having chemo rather than surgery which is the usual course of treatment. He said likely it’s an inoperable tumor (bad spot, too big) or it’s spread and thus operating would do little good. They may try to shrink the tumors with chemo and then do surgery. Short story long, this is not a very hopeful prognosis.
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Unfortunately I asked one of our docs why he’s having chemo rather than surgery which is the usual course of treatment. He said likely it’s an inoperable tumor (bad spot, too big) or it’s spread and thus operating would do little good. They may try to shrink the tumors with chemo and then do surgery. Short story long, this is not a very hopeful prognosis.
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Shoshana
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Jennings just said that he started smoking at 13 for thirty years. He quit for 20 years and when 9-11 happened, picked it up again. How much, I dunno…
Christ is risen…truly He is risen!
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Christ is risen…truly He is risen!
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rayne89
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Ok that is awful, Peter Jennings has cancer because the wrath of God has been laid upon him for being in the media? By the way he plans to continue working.
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CanonAlberic
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Lisa N:
Peace!
Hi Lisa… While you and I are polar opposites politically, I agree with your statement here and I thank you for posting it. I’ve cut way back on drinking, I quit doing drugs years ago, but the smoking is just SO damned hard to stop! I’m going to try quitting again in, actually, the next couple of days. Wish me luck- one of these days, god willing, it will stick.
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Lisa_N
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Oh bless you for taking on this incredible challenge. I work in the medical field and see the damage of smoking every day. But long before it was in the news one of my docs (world famous heart surgeon) said that smoking was by far more difficult to quit than an addiction to heroin. He was always very sympathetic to his patients who smoked because after all these years he saw that it is very very addictive.
I think for many years even the medical profession saw it as just a bad habit like nail biting that should be easily overcome. I hope you are able to quit and even if you backslide, just try again. Change theorists are now realizing that change is not a linear thing, it’s circular with a pattern of change, followed by relapse, followed by renewed determination, followed by change, followed by relapse…you get the drift. Do not be discouraged!
Take care
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Lisa_N
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Oh dear! I was going to point out that smokers who started young are more likely to have lasting damage and more likely to get cancer. My father’s generation (he died of lung cancer BTW) often didn’t smoke until they were in the military and in their late teens or early twenties. What we are seeing now are kids starting at 10 or 11 so more damage done and earlier. Also as I understand my father’s generation smoked TOBACCO and subsequently the cigarette companies have put in additives that have their own cancer inducing characteristics.
Do everything you can to DISCOURAGE smoking because it’s very hard to quit. How sad for Mr Jennings. This is a very challenging disease.
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CanonAlberic
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Lisa N:
At least when I’ve tried in the past and backslid, everyone has always been sympathetic and understanding. Now, it’s time to try yet again, dammit! I’ll keep y’all posted as to my progress (along with various irritating liberal posts!). I’d appreciate any readers throwing in a general “for all smokers trying to quit” intention in their prayers, as there are an awful lot of us out here. (Indiana has something like the 3rd largest percentage of smokers per population of all the states, and if you lived here, you’d probably understand why!!). Keep smiling, folks, and best wishes and prayers to Peter Jennings, who I’ve always liked.
Peace!
Thanks for the encouraging words. While even during my “doper” days, I never did heroin (here you have a 6’4", 220 lb dude who gets woozy when he even has to watch his dog get shots!!), from past experience I can well believe that smokes are harder to get off of than smack.
At least when I’ve tried in the past and backslid, everyone has always been sympathetic and understanding. Now, it’s time to try yet again, dammit! I’ll keep y’all posted as to my progress (along with various irritating liberal posts!). I’d appreciate any readers throwing in a general “for all smokers trying to quit” intention in their prayers, as there are an awful lot of us out here. (Indiana has something like the 3rd largest percentage of smokers per population of all the states, and if you lived here, you’d probably understand why!!). Keep smiling, folks, and best wishes and prayers to Peter Jennings, who I’ve always liked.
Peace!
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davy39
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I’ve never been a big fan of Jennings, but as a recovering prostate cancer victim, I have much sympathy and prayers for him. Only one in five diagnosed with lung cancer live five years. That’s not very good odds. Pray for him.
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