Maybe somebody can reach out to her doctor and ask for clarification.
I know several people who have had cancer, even in multiple organs, and have lived with it as a chronic condition for many years. Justice Ginzburg seems to be in this category…you can’t discount the effects of long-term cancer treatment on the body, but some people manage remarkably well. She appears to have an iron will, too, so that should help…
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she’s got my vote for the Supreme Court Hall of Fame.
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AAAAAHHHHHHH!!!
Well, that about sums it up…here’s hoping she can last at least until McConnell can’t cheat and shove someone else onto the SC despite his blockage of Garland. It will really be infuriating if McConnell cheated Obama out of a seat and then cheats Biden out of one as well.
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BY DEFINITION, she is one tough lady! That’s 312 chemo treatments. Wow.
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lesions on the liver. there are wide ranging degrees.
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A cancerous tumor can send out little satellite cancer cells to various parts of your body. While the mother cancer tumor is alive, it sends out a signal repressing the growth of those tiny satellite cells. Once the main tumor is taken out, the chemical signal it sent out to repress the growth of it’s satellite cells is no longer being sent. Result? The tiny little satellite cells will start to grow once they are no longer receiving the signal to repress their growth.
Cancer is a bitch.
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This is not the thing I needed to wake up to.
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She is one determined woman who knows better than any of us what her departure from the court now for any reason would mean. My guess is she’s instructed her doctors to keep her alive at any cost until Jan. 20.
On a more positive note, I’ve also had friends who have lived good lives for decades with assorted cancers, including sustained periods on chemo. She seems to be in that category. Here’s hoping.
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This scares me as much as anyone else, but I feel like she has so much will to live that if anything pulls her through all these ordeals, it will be that (and though I have no medical expertise, I think sheer will to live is underrated). You just know some part of her brain has has the thought permanently etched, “Not dead yet, muthaf***ers.” She’s a tough biddy.
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Depends on the Chemo, the health of the person and how well they tolerate the drug. Chemo isn’t a Walk in the park but, even for her age RBG can probably handle it. She’s tough and in good shape and knows the tricks
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2020 says: “I’m not done fucking with you yet.”
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Good grief, I do feel badly for her. I know it’s what happens as you get old, but Ginsburg is not going to leave the Supreme Court unless she absolutely cannot get there.
We are screwed in so many ways and another appointment from the Rethugs and we might as well hang it up.
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If we take back the Senate, we will be safe on January 2.
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Everything is on the table
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We’re safe now, right? Because, of course, we would not confirm a new SCOTUS justice so close to a presidential election. After all, we should let the people decide.
/s
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So what IS the Democratic game-plan if she passes away before a potential Biden presidency? Because McConnell will try to push a nominee through regardless, even if DT is in a lame-duck transition period. And that to me will be an absolute act of political war even worse than his criminal blocking of Garland. Yes, I know the GOP did away with the filibuster, but what is the plan to push back on any nomination process? Because they’d better be developing one. You MIGHT be able to peel off Murkowski, Collins, and Romney… MIGHT. That’s still a 50-50 tie that Pence then breaks… are there any other potential GOP votes against such a brazen move to further pack the Supreme Court? (It would be the 5th justice appointed by a GOP president who lost the popular vote.) Or do we just go to a plan B of adding four more justices to the SC? (Which will be IMO a bridge too far for some Democrats… but two will no longer be enough to offset what McConnell and DT have done.)
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I’m taking no chances. If McConnell still has that gavel and an open seat on the Court, he’ll confirm Neomi Rao at 11:30 am on January 20.
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I think we should just call her Iron Guts. Most people would be curled up in the fetal position by now.
Whatever happens, this woman is a marvel.
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I think maybe it was you, a iittle while ago, who offered a plan to expand the Court? It involved panels, I believe. Sorry I don’t remember the details, but it seemed like it would work.
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