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Debbie Wasserman Schultz: Supermom
I keep thinking about Debbie Wasserman Schultz.
She's the Broward congresswoman and mother of three who recently revealed she underwent seven surgeries for breast cancer, including a double mastectomy, without telling almost anyone. She is talking for the first time now to increase awareness of breast cancer among young women (she's 42).
I keep thinking how I would have handled the same situation. Without sounding too overdramatic, I would probably come close to a nervous breakdown. I probably wouldn't be able, physically or emotionally, to work. There would be lots of tears and feeling sorry for myself.
So when I read about her steely resolve, unyielding focus on her congressional duties, how she served as host for a Nancy Pelosi fundraiser nine days after surgery, how her family life has continued as normal, I can't relate. We all cope differently with life's traumas, but I know few people who would be as emotionally unaffected as our congresswoman.
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Comments
I can't relate either. I am a breast cancer survivor who had stage IIB (lymph nodes cancerous also). I had a mastectomy and 18 nodes removed. I have 5 months of chemo ahead of me, then radiation and finally reconstruction surgery. Ms. Schultz had stage I, and did not have to go through chemo or radiation. And, she didn't have any lymph nodes removed which is the hardest and most painful part of the surgery. I could have easily been out and about if mine had only been stage I, no lymph node removal and no chemo or radiation.
Posted by: Rachelle | April 15, 2009 10:07 PM
How about Wasserman or Schultz or whatever the Hell her name is, Super-Liberal, or Super-Socialist, or perhaps more accurately, Super-Communist.
They don't get much more Liberal or Left than she is. All she is is a lackey, a stooge, a hitman, an attack dog for Hussein, Pelousy, and Reid, a mindless combat robot that toes the Far Left Liberal line like the braindead communist zombie that she is. She would feel right at home as a Party member in the USSR or China, or Cuba or Venezuela for that matter.
Posted by: she's a communist | April 16, 2009 12:40 AM
I have to limit my comment here because I have had to cover DWS from time to time, but I don't think it's unprofessional to ask: Who said she was emotionally unaffected? Because she kept working? What if that's how she deals with a personal crisis, by trying to make her contribution meaningful (in her eyes, anyway).
Anyone else respond to a personal crisis by pouring themselves into their work?
Posted by: Rafael | April 16, 2009 7:47 PM
Dear she's a communist;
DWS has more courage in her little toe than you have in your cowardly anonymous soul. You should consider yourself lucky that you have the priviledge of being represented by someone who would defend your right to spew your Rush inspired ignorance. Posted by Dan Reynolds.
Posted by: Dan Reynolds | April 24, 2009 10:23 PM
Rachel and Rafael are both on point. Call her office and ask what really happened. A person who did was told she had the markers for cancer and decided to have the surgery done as a precaution. She is lucky to be able to use tax dollars to further her personal agenda, that is not so brave as those who go out and raise money through private donations to help. That is what we are about, she should understand this.
Posted by: cassie | May 30, 2009 9:12 AM
Why should Debbie be praised for having cancer and using the finest healthcare in the world to fight it. She has access to great healthcare and wants to harness the rest of us with socialized medicine where a bureaucrat decides to deny or delay the healthcare (for us) that she enjoys immediately. She is an elitist crony of the Obama-Pelosy radical Left. Let's find someone to replace her who will be a representative we can be truly proud of. GO TO A TEA PARTY!
Posted by: TONY | July 4, 2009 12:23 PM