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Board Certified M.D. on Thursday, May 22, 2008 9:11:19 PM
The Latest News on Senator Ted Kennedy does not come from his Doctors or the Massachusetts General Hospital. No News is probably bad news.... Here is a link to what a group of Neuro Oncologist from Springfied,
Arkansas think. These Cancer Experts in Arkansas, not a Medical Mecca but know the Prognosis better than moi published last night. I knew it was bad from the get go!
Local Doctors Weigh In on Ted Kennedy's Prognosis from Springfield Arkansas at KOLR & KSFX
Wednesday, May 21, 2008 @09:41pm CST
On Tuesday, doctors revealed he has a malignant brain tumor. Kennedy will undergo radiation and chemotherapy to treat the tumor, a malignant glioma. It appears he's not a candidate for surgery.
Cancer specialists here in Springfield tell KOLR/KSFX that the median survival for this type of disease is about nine to ten months with treatment, only two to three months without.
God spared Senator Kennedy from drowning at Chappaquidick and then in that 1964 Plane Crash. God could have taken out Kennedy with a lightning bolt like car accident, Myocardial Infarction, Cerebral Hemorrhage or any one of a multitude of possibilities but he gives his child, Ted a short reprieve of time on the inescapable and inevitability of death from a Malignant Glioma. I am sure that his life must be flashing in his mind. The Kennedy family is like a living Oedipus Rex of American Politics and they are in my parayers. I especially pray that Ted will see this and be transformed and become as noble as Sophocles' suffering Oedipus Rex did.
I know it is a stretch to Hope for this but a couple weeks ago at Mass my Priest, a Marine in Vietnam and an all round marvel of a Man(ends every Mass with "Go in Peace and God Bless America") in his Homily spoke of Suffering in the Human Condition paraphrasing:
C. S. Lewis: "in our pleasures, God whispers to us; in our conscience, God talks to us, and in our suffering, God shouts to us (Sheen, 1985). Pain and suffering are God's megaphones to us, calling us, to change."
Of all the Kennedy boys Ted has always been the most foolish, maybe age, experience and that intangible force of the Universe...Grace can help him be the JFK of PT 109 and the RFK of the Cuban Missile Crisis who helped JFK successfully avoid that Mushroom Cloud with the USSR. Not to be too judgemental, as only God knows, but my guess would be that Ted is facing a personal Mushroom Cloud of Eternal proportions! Grace is powerful and perhaps after receiving Sacrament of Extreme Uction aka Last Rites during the Anointing of the Sick God's gift of Grace will open his eyes.....
Please help me pray for Ted Kennedy to see the light on Abortion and denounce it..
Dominus Vobiscum