Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh told his audience Monday that new scans show his lung cancer has gotten worse.
“And at some point you can decide, you know, this medication may be working, but I hate the way I feel every day. I’m not there yet. But it is part and parcel of this. It’s tough to realize that the days where I do not think I’m under a death sentence are over. Now, we all are, is the point. We all know that we’re going to die at some point, but when you have a terminal disease diagnosis that has a time frame to it, then that puts a different psychological and even physical awareness to it,” Limbaugh said.
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“The scans did show some progression of cancer,” Limbaugh added. “Prior to that, the scans had shown that we had rendered the cancer dormant. That’s my phrase for it. We had stopped the growth. It had been reduced, and it had become manageable. But there’s always the reality and the knowledge that that can change and it can come back because it is cancer. It eventually outsmarts pretty much everything you throw at it. And this, of course, this is stage 4 lung cancer.”
Limbaugh said he and his doctors have been forced to “tweak” the treatment plan in hopes of “keeping additional progression at bay for as long as possible.”
“Stage 4 is, as they say, terminal,” Limbaugh noted.
Limbaugh described his fight with cancer using a baseball analogy, saying his goal was to hit a home run and that he was rounding second base and “chugging” toward third, but “I realized I wasn’t going to make it” and had to make a “mad dash” back and slide into second base.
The conservative radio giant, who first disclosed his illness in February, thanked his millions of listeners for their support and prayers.
“Hearing from you, know that you’re out there praying and everything else you’re doing, that is a blessing,” Limbaugh said. “It’s just a series of blessings, and I am grateful to be able to come here to the studio and tell you about it.”
“I go to bed every night praying I’m going to wake up,” Limbaugh said. “It’s a blessing when you wake up.”
