Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh on Tuesday gave an update for listeners about his treatment for advanced lung cancer, saying the most recent course was taking a lot out of him
"I could not be doing this without Kathryn," Limbaugh said Tuesday. "I have never experienced anybody so selfless. I marvel at her selflessness. I don’t know how she does it." "She is able to appear optimistic, happy — I mean, bouncy on occasion.
No complaining. Which is such a blessing, ’cause I don’t know how to deal with people that complain since I don’t complain much," he said. "But the things that she is doing to ease me through this and to make it as less arduous for me that it can be, I’m blessed." Kathryn, he said, "doesn’t allow herself to get down — or, if she does, I don’t see it," even though "this is as devastating for her as it is me." "She has this ability to immerse herself in other people’s sadness and disappointment and make them feel better," he said.Trump Gives a Visibly Moved Rush Limbaugh the Presidential Medal of Freedom During State of the Union Reflecting on his own symptoms throughout his treatment, Limbaugh said he was prepared for what was happening to his body. "It’s the cost. It’s the price that you pay if you make the decision to go ahead and do treatment to try to prolong your life," he said. "I’m doing extremely well, all things considered, the fact that I’m even here today." There'd been challenges: "One particular kind of treatment that works in 97 percent of patients ... did not work in me, and it’s because of a 1 percent mutation I have that led to my lung cancer in the first place," he said. During his cycles of treatment, there had been a three-week gap after the drug that had so debilitated him. "You people who have done this will know exactly what I’m talking about, during those three weeks with no treatment ... I felt normal, as normal and as good as I can remember feeling," he said. In the wake of his diagnosis four months ago, "Every day I wake up and the first thing I do is thank God that I did," Limbaugh said Tuesday. "Just waking up is a blessing. I know many of you are praying daily and nightly. I happen to believe that they work. I believe that they are sustaining me, and I pray for the energy to be able to do this."JIM WATSON/Getty Images "The reality is, the day is gonna come where I’m not gonna be able to be here," Limbaugh said. "I don’t know when that is — and I’m hoping that it is months, years." He has discussed the contingency of airing best-of compilations instead or having guest hosts, he said.Hosting his show, he said, was "one of my primary loves in life — and you in the audience are the reason that this love of my life has been so extraordinarily happy and successful. It would not have happened without you.""I have this given set of circumstances, and I have to adapt to them and part of the adaptation is being honest with myself about what I can and can’t do and then zeroing in on what I want to make sure that I can continue to do that I like doing for as long as I can," he said. "And that happens to be the purpose of the treatment." Limbaugh, one of the most popular hosts in the country, rose to national fame during the advent of conservative talk radio in the ’90s. He announced his cancer diagnosis while on the air in early February. He said then that he “first realized something was wrong on my birthday weekend,” on Jan. 12, and his diagnosis was later confirmed on Jan. 20.
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