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USSC Justice Rehnquist hospitalized
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:02 pm
by GalvestonDuck
ABC radio reporting.
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:11 pm
by Brent
Apparently a fever... although it sounded urgent. "Ambulance called", "rushed to the hospital". Why doesn't he just retire already...
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:19 pm
by alicia-w
when you have cancer, any fever can be a bad thing.
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 2:55 pm
by wx247
alicia-w wrote:when you have cancer, any fever can be a bad thing.
Yes... I am no doctor, but I do believe that the treatment usually does weaken the immune system. It seems that I read somewhere that it usually isn't the cancer that kills you, but some other ailment brought on by the weak immune system.
I wish him well, but he definitely has an uphill battle ahead of him.
Posted: Wed Jul 13, 2005 10:19 pm
by DaylilyDawn
It depends on whether or not the cancer has spread beyond the thyroid gland. Judging from his look, I would say that it has spread and metastied already. My thyroid cancer was caught before it spread beyond the thyroid gland. If Jusice Rheinquist is reciveing chemo therapy , it may weaken his immune system allowing a simple cold to become pnumonia.