The Tri-Cities Reacts To Announcement That Ted Kennedy Has Brain Cancer
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By Bill Christian
Anchor / Reporter / WJHL
Published: May 21, 2008
Many people in the Tri-Cities reacted on Wednesday after learning that Senator Ted Kennedy was diagnosed with a malignant brain tumor. Johnson City resident, Debbie Wilson has followed the Kennedy’s for years and remembers what she was feeling when President John Kennedy was shot, then his brother Bobby five years later.
“That same feeling came over me again,” Wilson said.
“I wouldn’t wish this kind of disease on my worst enemy,” said Carl Whightman, Jonesborough resident.
Senator Kennedy is respected, no matter if you’re a democrat or republican. And all indications are that this longtime politician has a rough road ahead of him. Richard Gentry is a radiologist at Bristol Regional Medical Center. He said malignant glioma is one of the most common types of brain cancer.
“It is not localized or focal or encapsulated, it tends to run through the nerve cells and the connections within the brain fairly rapidly,” Gentry said.
He says this type of brain cancer is rare, about 1 case per 50-thousand people. But the prognosis for those who have it is not good. Leaving people in the Tri-cities to hope for the best for Kennedy.
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Posted by ( The Lifeteller ) on May 21, 2008 at 9:00 pm
If it wasn’t for the Kennedy’s
John-Bobby-Ted
I was just a child when I discovered life-about 10 yrs. old, just this side of the fight.
The prejudice was all over the TV-the South was on fire with hate, for the Negro’s of this society.
My uncle Tommy Johnson was the valet of Roosevelt to Kennedy-it was a harsh time for the black society.
It was Bobby, John, and Ted-trying to bring change and hope through the words being said.
They were young men fighting for a strangers life-speaking truth to bring strength to the fight.
The fight was fierce from the other side-saying and doing anything to beat down our pride.
The pride of freedom, hope and truth in this society-those who fought the hardest was the Kennedy’s.
They lived and died for what they believed-back then talking and listening to our enemies wasn’t call being appeased.
It was called, what’s best for this country-and those who did it best were the Kennedy’s.
Even though many didn’t like what was being said-that didn’t stop John, Bobby or Ted.
So today we have to deal with Ted’s fate-lets come together in prayer and faith.
Lets pray for the man whose love pours like rain-living an open life frame by frame.
As I think back every Kennedy has showed themselves as a special breed-using everything to help the poor just like you and me.
So I say lets pray for healing and grace-as Ted deal with business as usual and his own fate. by; Patricia Robinson-5/20/08-2;08p
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