Shot in the Dark

Stand Up

Joe Doakes from Como Park emails

If your wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, would you go with her to chemotherapy treatments?

Why not? Everybody loves a vacation day, right?

Democrats criticizing Gov. DeSantis for being “inexplicably absent” from the office apparently haven’t heard of “. . . in sickness and in health . . . .” That’s a shame. Lesko Brandon never tires of lying about his wife being killed by a drunk driver because he thinks it makes him a sympathetic figure. Ron DeSantis does not exploit his wife suffering every woman’s worst fear, he just quietly does the right thing by her.

The nation could use more people who stand by their mates, who keep their promises, who put family above publicity.

Joe Doakes

DeSantis is a moral, upstanding person.

That’s why the left hates him so terribly.

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9 responses to “Stand Up”

  1. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    To answer your question, Joe; been there, done that. My wife was diagnosed in 2018. Thankfully, they were able to remove it with a biopsy, then six weeks of radiation treatments, just to be sure. She got her three years clear results just before Thanksgiving. I was with her for every treatment.

    I’m certainly not into smacking women, but had I been in Tide Pod Evita’s presence when she made her classless and ignorant statement about DeSantis, I might have made an exception.

  2. Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenesis

    The year 2017 was the saddest year of my life. On the last day of May my wife of fifteen years was diagnosed with stage 4 liver cancer. Within days, a coworker I was close to, a young lady with no family closer than 4,000 miles, was diagnosed with advanced breast cancer. Double mastectomy followed by six months of chemo and radiation.
    So I spent the summer and fall of 2017 at the cancer center with my wife and with my friend.
    My wife passed away in the autumn of 2017. The young lady recovered, as much as you do from a disease like that.
    If DeSantis had not accompanied his wife to her treatment, the Dems would have called him a heartless bastard.

  3. Ian Avatar
    Ian

    but had I been in Tide Pod Evita’s presence when she made her classless and ignorant statement about DeSantis, I might have made an exception.

    C’mon boss, don’t you know that criticism of AOC means you want to date her?

  4. Ian Avatar
    Ian

    If DeSantis had not accompanied his wife to her treatment, the Dems would have called him a heartless bastard.

    @MP: Condolences on your loss. My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer in October after the health effects of the cancer spreading to her bones became readily apparent. My dad, her husband of 47 years, hasn’t wavered in his commitment to her. Married couples should aspire to the example set by people such as yourself.

    And yes, leftist Democrats show themselves seemingly incapable of simple gestures of humanity when one of their political brethren on the right suffers or dies from disease. The pandemic has highlighted that.

  5. bikebubba Avatar
    bikebubba

    Well done, MP. Well done. Brutally hard time for you–I had a tiny dose of this as I was at my mom’s bedside as she was dying of colon cancer in 2009–but well done. Ecclesiastes 7:2 comes to mind, as does Matthew 5:4.

    It illustrates the fact that the left seems to use just about any club to beat on their political opponents, no matter how unfair and nonsensical it is.

  6. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    MP; my condolences on the loss of your wife and my kudos for your commitment to her and your friend.

  7. bosshoss429 Avatar
    bosshoss429

    If I may offer a public service announcement, our experience may be helpful.

    My wife put off her mammograms for over 10 years. According to her oncologist, that was the only way hers would have been found. She got it just in time, because had she waited to get it another six months, he said that we would likely have been having an entirely different conversation.

    So if the women in your lives put their mammograms off, encourage them to get them.

  8. Night Writer Avatar
    Night Writer

    I am so sorry to heart about that, MP. I have had my share of vigils outside of cancer wards (and even a brief internment of my own). My wife had successful cancer surgery last spring, confirmed with an “all-clear” follow up just last week.

    It is such a strange situation to feel as if your whole life has come to a halt, even as life keeps going on all around you.

  9. Mammuthus Primigenesis Avatar
    Mammuthus Primigenesis

    Night Writer, one of the things that drives me to a religious view of existence is the undeniable fact that tragedy affects us more than . . . what? There really is no opposite to tragedy. “Joy” and “Happiness” are emotions, tragedy is a story. “Comedy” won’t do as the opposite of tragedy because it is farcical. Tragedy is real, Happily ever after is a fairy tale.

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