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Mayor Rob Ford Hospitalized

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https://ca.news.yahoo.com/rob-ford-tumor-hospital-says-223556523.html

Knowing that our Mayor Ford has become a bit of a notorious celebrity with our friends to the south, I thought I'd let you in on this bit of news.

I wish Mayor Ford the best and hope he's back soon and ready for reelection. He's a breath of fresh air in our political bore-fest, and he's a damn good Mayor too.
 
Abdominal tumor? Damn that must be painful. I hope they can get it taken care of and he heals up well.
 
tres borrachos said:
Abdominal tumor? Damn that must be painful. I hope they can get it taken care of and he heals up well.
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Apparently, his father died a few years back, I believe in his late 50's, from colon cancer and as the doctors are suggesting there's not much in a male's body in the area of the pain/tumor other than a man's colon.

I like the man and I like how he has an F U attitude towards all those who judge him and try to bring him down - the media jackals were only concerned with whether or not he was withdrawing from the election, not his health or his family's condition. Selfishly, I want to see him reelected but I hope mostly for he and his family a good prognosis and a quick recovery - he has two very young children and no child should lose a parent so young.
 
Well cant say I'm surprised he has health issues considering his lifestyle but hopefully this is a benign tumor.
I believe he had one a few years ago that was removed without complications
 
Well seems he has dropped out and his brother Doug has taken his place, shame I don't think Doug is nearly as entertaining. Didn't hear any more news about Rob's health, hope its benign.
 
Quag said:
Well seems he has dropped out and his brother Doug has taken his place, shame I don't think Doug is nearly as entertaining. Didn't hear any more news about Rob's health, hope its benign.
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Yes, Rob dropped out of the Mayor's race, but he's put his name forward for his old council seat which he should win in a walk. If his brother Doug gets elected Mayor, and there's a good chance he will, I can see him appointing Rob as his Deputy Mayor and once Rob is back to normal and able to handle all the activity, I expect that Doug will find a way to be absent a lot and potentially resign with Rob taking over and being perfectly placed for a snap election for Mayor. A little Machiavellian, but you never know.

In all seriousness, Rob wouldn't have dropped out of the Mayor's race unless he knows his tumour is trouble and he's got a long rehabilitation ahead of him and perhaps a very bad prognosis.
 
CanadaJohn said:
Yes, Rob dropped out of the Mayor's race, but he's put his name forward for his old council seat which he should win in a walk. If his brother Doug gets elected Mayor, and there's a good chance he will, I can see him appointing Rob as his Deputy Mayor and once Rob is back to normal and able to handle all the activity, I expect that Doug will find a way to be absent a lot and potentially resign with Rob taking over and being perfectly placed for a snap election for Mayor. A little Machiavellian, but you never know.
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If that happens I think a lot of people will be very pissed, not because they necessarily dislike Rob (though those that do definitely will be) but because it will be seen as a cheap political ploy used to subvert the process.

In all seriousness, Rob wouldn't have dropped out of the Mayor's race unless he knows his tumour is trouble and he's got a long rehabilitation ahead of him and perhaps a very bad prognosis.
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It could just be the possibility that it is more serious. If it turns out to be cancer and he has to go through Chemo and or radiation he may not be able to act as mayor for an extended period, also the possibility that he would have to step down or not be able to finish his mandate could push some supporters to switch to other candidates causing him to lose anyway.
I honestly don't know. I don't live in Toronto and my friends that do don't discuss TO politics in any serious way with me (I just laugh at them for their crazy mayors and they laugh at me for our corrupt ones).
Still wish him the best and hope its benign, as someone who has gone though this, I know how bad it can be.
 
CanadaJohn said:
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/rob-ford-tumor-hospital-says-223556523.html

Knowing that our Mayor Ford has become a bit of a notorious celebrity with our friends to the south, I thought I'd let you in on this bit of news.

I wish Mayor Ford the best and hope he's back soon and ready for reelection. He's a breath of fresh air in our political bore-fest, and he's a damn good Mayor too.
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I sincerely wish Rob Ford nothing but the best. What a roller coaster he has been on!

Now that Doug is running instead of Rob what is your feeling about him? Do you support him?

Do you feel that there is a possibility of too many Fords in Toronto government? You have Ford cousin in there as well, right?

Let's hope that Rob comes back healthy and free of cancer. What will his political future be?
 
CanadaJohn said:
Apparently, his father died a few years back, I believe in his late 50's, from colon cancer and as the doctors are suggesting there's not much in a male's body in the area of the pain/tumor other than a man's colon.

I like the man and I like how he has an F U attitude towards all those who judge him and try to bring him down - the media jackals were only concerned with whether or not he was withdrawing from the election, not his health or his family's condition. Selfishly, I want to see him reelected but I hope mostly for he and his family a good prognosis and a quick recovery - he has two very young children and no child should lose a parent so young.
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Ford got my attention years ago. In my mind I tried to put him in a political box. LOL! Rob Ford won't fit in a box, maybe a refrigerator crate, but not a box. At any rate, the more I read about him the more intrigued I became. It finally came to me when I read a quote from him saying that he was a fiscal conservative and a social liberal. He seems to have, somehow, made that work. I'd like to believe it possible.
 
Risky Thicket said:
I sincerely wish Rob Ford nothing but the best. What a roller coaster he has been on!

Now that Doug is running instead of Rob what is your feeling about him? Do you support him?

Do you feel that there is a possibility of too many Fords in Toronto government? You have Ford cousin in there as well, right?

Let's hope that Rob comes back healthy and free of cancer. What will his political future be?
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Good morning Risky - hope all is well,

I'm not as big a fan of Doug - Rob is a genuinely fun/nice guy who has a big heart and cares a lot about the less fortunate in Toronto - he walks the walk, not just trying to throw tax dollars at problems like most of the big spending liberals on council but actually going out to social housing, visiting with the residents, seeing their problems and getting action on them - he's a hero to them. Doug is more an operator - a smart guy, more politically astute, but not as personable. Doug is equally as generous as Rob - he donates his entire council salary to charity - but he doesn't seem as approachable. There's a lot of value in personality in politics.

Doug benefits from the other two main candidates being even less personable and being big spenders, Doug is the only one who can and will carry on Rob's agenda. In some respects, he's seen as being Rob without the personal baggage and as a close family lots of people see voting for Doug as a vote for Rob.

There are only the two of them on council. Rob's nephew was going to run for Doug's council seat which was Rob's council seat before he became Mayor because Doug wasn't running for reelection. With Rob moving back to the council race, the nephew is going to run for a school board seat. They are a very political family - kind of a poor man's Kennedy or Bush.

Rob will win his council seat back - no question. Only question is his health going forward. It's believed, and it makes sense, that Rob never would have dropped out of the Mayor's race unless his problems were life threatening or at least serious enough to keep him incapacitated for months. If he fully recovers and he stays clean, I see him being Mayor again one day.
 
Risky Thicket said:
Ford got my attention years ago. In my mind I tried to put him in a political box. LOL! Rob Ford won't fit in a box, maybe a refrigerator crate, but not a box. At any rate, the more I read about him the more intrigued I became. It finally came to me when I read a quote from him saying that he was a fiscal conservative and a social liberal. He seems to have, somehow, made that work. I'd like to believe it possible.
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That's what most Canadian conservatives are - that's the kind of Canadian conservative I am - it comes from our belief that the government should stay out of our wallets and out of our bedrooms. Basically, let people keep and use most of their money and let them live their lives as they choose as long as no one else is hurt in the process.
 
We like Canada. We find ourselves going there a least once a year. It's a beautiful country with people who are not nearly as divided as Americans. The he seems to be less hate in Canada. I like that too.
 
It`s malignant and doesnt look good for him
Hopefully the chemo will shrink the tumors enough (they found at least 1 more) to operate
 
Quag said:
It`s malignant and doesnt look good for him
Hopefully the chemo will shrink the tumors enough (they found at least 1 more) to operate
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Actually, if I understand the diagnosis/prognosis correctly, if they have to operate it's a worse outcome. The ideal outcome is that the chemotherapy and potentially radiation will completely eradicate both the tumours, this type of cancer being successfully treated under that method. If they have to operate, that means the chemotherapy didn't do its job. This type of cancer, as I understand it, will continue to potentially pop up even if these two tumours are completely eradicated now, so he'll have to be vigilant for the rest of his life to catch newly developing tumours early. The news did sound, at least to me, far more hopeful than I expected, but you never know from day to day what cancer will do next.
 
CanadaJohn said:
Actually, if I understand the diagnosis/prognosis correctly, if they have to operate it's a worse outcome. The ideal outcome is that the chemotherapy and potentially radiation will completely eradicate both the tumours, this type of cancer being successfully treated under that method. If they have to operate, that means the chemotherapy didn't do its job. This type of cancer, as I understand it, will continue to potentially pop up even if these two tumours are completely eradicated now, so he'll have to be vigilant for the rest of his life to catch newly developing tumours early. The news did sound, at least to me, far more hopeful than I expected, but you never know from day to day what cancer will do next.
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What I heard as that surgery was best hope for this type but due to its position and invading of nearby tissues they cant. The Chemo is an attempt to shrink it enough to operate.
Of course media reports are never 100% accurate.
Either way he's getting chemo and that sucks the big high hard one. Hopefully it wont be too hard on him. Different chemo and different people result in different reactions.
 
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