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April 17, 2009 - Rush Limbaugh Program
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April 17, 2009, Friday, Hour #2
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Documented to me almost always right.
99% of the time.
I am Rush Limbaugh, a man, a legend, a way of life.
It's Friday, so let's keep it rolling.
Live from the Southern Command in sunny South Florida.
It's open line Friday.
Great to have you with us as always on Friday.
There are very few restrictions on what you can talk about.
Monday through Thursday, we uh we ride close herd on it.
I have to care about it, and we don't talk about it.
Nobody wants to be bored listening to the program.
But on Friday, throw all that out.
We go to the phones, whatever you want to talk about for the most part is fair game.
That number is 800-282-2882.
Email address L Rushbo at EIBNet.com.
This is also today our 19th annual Curathon to cure the blood cancers.
Leukemia and lymphoma.
And I um I was telling Mr. Sturdley here in the break at the top of the hour.
I am I am really I'm stunned that we not only do we have more donors after an hour than we had last year.
We've we've raised more money.
Snerdley thinks that what's happening, of course, the audience is expanded geometrically.
Uh but Snurdly thinks, you know, you don't ask a lot of this audience, and these this is a great cause, and it's showing tremendous results, progress, uh survival rates are increasing, new drugs are coming out to uh enhance uh life experience after diagnosis of one of these uh dread diseases.
And uh probably people are are ponying up in smaller donations this year, or whatever.
Well, however, you're doing it, folks.
You are once again stunning and amazing uh all of us involved here in the 19th annual leukemia curaton to wipe out the blood cancers.
900,000 patients and their families are right now living with leukemia lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, and myeloma, and a hundred thousand more will be diagnosed every year, but they these people have more hope going for them because the work that we're doing today, that you are doing for the leukemia lymphoma society is bringing quantifiable change, progress, and especially for kids.
Now, I mentioned in the case of myeloma, which is cancer of the plasma cells.
63,000 Americans currently live with myeloma.
There are 15,000 new patients diagnosed every year.
And this is one of the blood cancers that rarely strikes anybody under the age of 50.
The uh five-year survival rate was 32 percent a couple years ago.
It's been improved now to 35 percent.
Your dollars that you have generously donated have been instrumental in the development of a new treatment.
Since we last spoke on this last year, Velcade is the name of this new treatment that has brought about these recent gains, and that's just the latest breakthrough that you've heard about uh during our history here with a curathon.
If you're regular listener, you will remember Glevec.
I got an I got an email from uh someone last night, in fact, who's using Glevec and was swearing by it.
All of the uh remarkable.
In fact, this person told me he's in remission for seven and a half years.
Five kids.
In remission, seven and a half years using Glevec and other treatments.
Glevec is the drug that helped turn certain cancers that might have been fatal into chronic conditions.
Survivable, and Glebeck is now been approved for the treatment of three other cancers.
Glebeck came about purely and simply because of the generosity of people all over the country like you who donated to the uh the research effort.
And I love this stuff that happens in the private sector.
I love the people getting involved, private sector work actually getting done here in a in a very efficient and effective way, with a vast majority of the money that you donate today, for example, to leukemia lymphoma goes to research.
Uh one of the great things about this charity is they're not top-heavy.
They don't take 40% off the top for salary administrative and this sort of thing.
The people I work with have been working with them for 19 years.
They have not changed.
They have been as committed uh throughout the 19 years as they were when I first met them.
They've all been personally affected one way or another by a blood cancer disease.
One of the things that I have really grown to like about the Leukemia Lymphoma Society over these years is they pioneered bone marrow transplants.
Which is now, you know, it's it's it's a it's a ho-hum common everyday procedure.
You see it on various television shows.
But you know what?
You know what?
Bone marrow transplants are bone marrow transplants uh are in fact adult stem cell transplants.
Bone marrow transplants are adult stem cell transplants.
The only stem cell therapy to date that is beyond showing promise.
It is working.
You didn't know that bone marrow was adult stem.
It is bone marrow transplants are adult stem cell transplants.
And they're the only ones that working.
All the others have a lot of promise.
The only ones that working.
Leukemia Lymphoma Society pioneered bone marrow transplants.
The society is now uh very heavily invested in research to remedy complications with second party non-identical stem cell transplants, which would open up this therapy to even more patients.
Now, when you donate to the Leukemia Lymphoma Society, nearly 75% of the money goes directly to research patients and support services as well.
And I I know the kind of people at the Leukemia Lymphoma Society.
They are uh some of the finest and most committed people I have met, and most of them, the ones I know have been touched in some way by these cancers.
And with the progress that's being made each and every year, that's also been a very uplifting to be able to come here every year and say, hey, there's been progress from last year.
Don't have to say, folks, we haven't learned anything new.
Uh we haven't moved forward, but still, we'd like to ask you to donate.
There is demonstrable progress on survivability rates, particularly each and every year.
So it's not the time to rest or to redeploy or to withdraw, especially from a cause and effort sowing so much promise and providing so many breakthroughs.
So join me today.
I'm I made my traditional uh donation in the last hour.
I always do what I ask you to do.
Leukemia and Lymphoma Society, uh, Rush Limbaugh.com is where you can go donate online.
The vast majority so far today are so doing.
There's also a phone number, 877-379-8888.
And don't worry about security and privacy.
Nobody is going to get your information.
Nobody will have it after you uh donate online.
And yes, ladies and gentlemen, there are premiums, and these are detailed at Rushlimbaugh.com when you hit the uh the leukemia society donation button.
But it and then and it's fast and secure, by the way, to do it online.
Here's a quick rundown of the premium.
$70 donation.
You get a commemorative Dittohead t-shirt.
It's a one-size-fits-all, and this is a reissue of the original Ditto Head T-shirt from 1988.
And it's it's cool.
There really isn't, just in terms of a ditto head t-shirt, there hasn't been one better.
A 100 donation gets you the commemorative t-shirt plus a special EIB golf hat, a cap.
High quality, adjustable size, comes in black, silver EIB logo and my signature on the front.
And $325 donation.
You get the golf hat.
You get the commemorative t-shirt, but you also get a uh no, the golf hat and a golf shirt.
The EIB golf shirt.
Now the golf shirt and a hat come in black to commemorate the Obama economy.
Shirt's cool, ultra cool fabric.
EIB logo on the chest, uh, the logo and my signature on the sleeve, and this shirt is sized, small to uh 2x.
And again, we're running ahead of uh of where we were last year, which is just fabulous.
Again, Rush Limbaugh.com to donate online or 877-379-8888.
It's open line Friday, and we will get to your phone calls when we come back right after this.
I forgot, I forgot to mention we're talking about the horrible, horrible, horrible form of torture.
The Obama administration revealed in memos yesterday, Abu Zubida was placed in a small area, a smaller cell than usual, with an insect.
He had a fear of insects.
They told him it was an insect thing as a caterpillar.
It turns out it wasn't used.
He was not putting the Chicago Tribune has it.
He was not put in the cell with the insect.
They just talked about it in the memos.
It wasn't even used, and even just that they were talking about it's not got people up in arms on the left.
They know Snerdley, Snurdley is saying to me, these people have no idea.
They have no idea what they're doing to us.
Depends on who you're talking about.
You're talking about average Joe Six Pack Democrat.
I agree.
He has no clue.
But the people in charge of this administration, they know exactly what they're doing, and there's a systemic plan for it.
Don't fool yourselves they don't know what they're doing.
And they're and they're roping in, they're sucking in all kinds of people.
One thing that's good here, and I'm not going to mention any names because this is a great day.
We are still.
I shouldn't say still.
I'm just surprised, given economic circumstances.
We are way ahead of last year for our curathon, number of donors, number of dollars.
You know, I get I sit here, I'm just in awe of this of all of you that that do this every year.
I just I have the relationship that that I that you and I have, I w with with this audience is just it has to be probably the most unique audience host relationship out there today.
This is just mind-boggling to me.
So I I I don't want to get, you know, too too negative here, but name some names.
We've got some people that uh used to be, I thought were on our side, conservatives, who themselves are getting sucked in by this stuff, snurdly.
They're getting sucked in by by all of the by fr from making ourselves poorer, which will lead to a simpler life of planting a garden and living off the radishes that we grow ourselves, and then we'll start smoking more, and we'll just start getting to know our families more and uh our neighbors more.
Okay, this is all fine and dandy because we're clearing out the dead weight on our side.
All right.
But they know exactly what they are doing.
At this.
They don't think they're putting us at risk, snurdly.
They don't think that.
You can't I mean, I I wouldn't say that Barack Obama wants the country to get hit again with you.
You think Barack Obama has the uh has a desire for a terrorist attack on this country?
And I I don't think that'd play right now uh very well given what he wants to do with uh with spending and so forth.
But I I I I do think that there is a complex among these people that that won't happen when he's there.
It just you know, it won't happen.
You know, messianic type things are gonna happen.
These guys are gonna read these memos, they're gonna understand that uh, you know, it's not Bush anymore.
Now we're not out to harm them.
Now here we got these guys that we're talking about, they're cut off their own wives' heads if they detect them doing something not within the bounds of the law.
And we got memos out there today saying how rude and horrible and we are because we slap people.
I just slap myself.
I'm torturing myself right now.
That's torture.
According to these people.
If if there is another hit, uh uh.
Well uh we're the laughing stock in Torabora.
We are the laughing stock in the caves of Pakistan.
We're the laughing stock in uh in Riyadh.
We're a laughing stock in Tehran.
Uh we are a laughing stock in uh in all of these capitals.
Um Damascus.
Yeah, we're a laughing stock there.
But time will go.
I want to go to the phones.
And this is Jill in Cleveland, Texas.
Great to have you with us.
Hi, Rush.
Um, a while back I called you about my son Randy being brainwashed at school into believing that the reason we went to Iraq was for the oil.
Do you remember that?
Oh, never forget that.
Okay.
You were very worried about your son.
Well, I'd like to give you an update.
I asked him what his teacher said, and he told me he joined the Marines.
I didn't think he joined the Marines after hearing.
Yeah, uh what I I told you the real reasons we were in Iraq that had nothing to do with oil.
Exactly.
And your son went and joined the Marines.
That's right.
Where is he now?
He's in North Carolina.
Uh waiting to deploy to Afghanistan.
Yeah, they're sending him to Afghanistan.
I think so.
So Jill, are you proud?
Did you expect that to happen?
No.
I expected some kind of smart ass remark from his teacher.
Um, you know, Jill, it's interesting that you call today about this.
As I stumbled across a news story last night when I was engaged in show prep, and uh it's from the Kansas City SCAR newspaper.
And I gave you a quote.
It's from our highly respected vice president, Joe Biden.
Who, by the way, does not speak with a teleprompter, so you can't blame this on the teleprompter.
Are you listening out there, Jill?
Yeah, can we blame it on him?
How many, this is Joe Biden.
How many of you think we would have so many troops stationed in that area, the Middle East, if we didn't need the oil?
If you add the actual price of oil, it's probably ten dollars more a barrel just by the military we have to provide to be able to ensure those oil lanes stay open.
So now all of a sudden, after seven years of Democrats being led by people like Biden saying our war was unjust because it was for oil, here is Joe Biden claiming we're there for oil, and we've always been there for oil, and our troops are there for oil.
Now he was they were they we didn't fight the war for oil.
Do not uh misunderstand here, Jill.
We didn't fight the war for oil.
We don't have their oil.
If we we didn't have to fight a war to get their oil.
I think as I told you, if we wanted their oil, we could have just said, okay, we're gonna you guys can clean up your own mess here, and we're gonna take over the uh oil-producing aspects of your country, and we could just take it over.
There was nobody there to stop us.
But but we didn't do that.
I just I think these people on the left are just out of their minds.
So here's Biden, and you know what he's doing?
You know, here's here's his here's his strategy on this.
Joe Biden is trying to convince people that if we stop using oil, we'll save a lot of money, and we can bring our troops home.
Because if we don't use oil from over there, we won't need to protect oil pipelines, ship shipping lanes or any of that.
This is all part of this administration's push toward the green energy sources that are not going to manifest themselves.
Solar energy, which is a giant ruse, and uh windmills and this sort of thing.
The the the logical conclusion to what Senator Biden or Vice President Biden is saying here.
If Obama is in charge, and his spokesman is admitting that they are keeping our men and women in harm's way for oil, then why don't we drill our own?
Why don't we we have plenty of oil, oil reserves offshore in this co get our own?
Why are we, as they love to say, deploying American treasure to the foreign sands of Saudi Arabia to protect their oil when we've got our own.
If we're in the Middle East for oil, why not drill here and drill now to save these lives immediately?
Plenty of oil in our country and offshore.
This is a significant statement.
Gibbs ought to be asked about this.
The brilliant press secretary for the Obama administration.
Joe Biden, how many of you think we'd have so many troops stationed there if it weren't for oil?
If you add the actual price of oil, probably ten dollars more a barrel just by the military, we have to provide to be able to ensure those oil lanes stay open.
I also think this is a despicable way to minimize the U.S. military security guards for something we have in abundance.
This statement is these people are just dumping all over the U.S. military.
Their DHS reported now this.
But I guess it was a lie when they said we were doing all this for oil.
Biden's now admitting.
That's why we deploy the military.
We'll be back.
Stay with us.
And we are back.
Thank you for joining us at Open Line Friday and our 19th annual Curathon.
To beat the blood cancers, leukemia, lymphoma, Hodgkin's disease, myeloma.
For one day.
For one day every year, we raise money for the Leukemia Lymphoma Society.
And we get two ways you can donate.
Telephone number, 877-379-888, or you can go online at rushlimb.com.
Very simple.
Either way, however, you do it, your uh information is secure, and nobody will know.
It'll not be shared with anybody.
Uh the leukemia lymphoma society, the world's largest voluntary health organization dedicated not only to funding blood cancer research, but education and patient services to people just like you.
The work of the Leukemia Lymphoma Society is international.
They fund research both at home and abroad, and they're outstanding in all that they do.
I was stunned to see how many people here in the studio did not know that bone marrow transplants, which were uh pioneered by the leukemia lymphoma society, are adult stem cell transplants.
And they're the only ones that work.
The others, it is said have a lot of promise.
But they work.
There are many important, wonderful charities out there.
What I um have always loved about the Leukemia Lymphoma Society is that they are advancing every year.
Every year here, there is progress to report.
Hard work, generosity, people like you, blood cancers are now playing defense, are moving the ball each and every year slowly but surely.
Do you know leukemia is the number one killer?
Cancer killer of children under the age of 20.
And the most common form of childhood leukemia has an overall survival rate today of 88%.
That's astronomically high, and it's it's up one percent over last year.
Lymphoma is diagnosed in 63,000 Americans every year, 20,000 succumbed to it.
The five-year survival rate's gone up from 47% in 1974 to 65% today, which and up another 2% over last year.
Hodgkin's today is considered curable.
Five-year survival rate now up to 86%.
Even higher for those under 20.
Non-Hodgkins lymphoma has a long-term survival rate of 65%.
Now, cancer of the plasma cells, that's what myeloma is.
63,000 Americans at present live with the disease.
15,000 new patients are diagnosed every year.
This disease rarely strikes people under the age of 50.
Five year survival rate, only 32% a couple years ago.
And that's been improved to 35%.
Now we've been doing all this for 19 years, you and I together.
And tremendous.
And every year you have donated more than the previous year.
And this year is no exception.
Even with economic circumstances as they are, you are still coming through with flying colors.
And you are in the process of blowing everybody away here.
You're meeting and surpassing all the expectations that were ahead of you.
On this day, and I can't thank you on behalf of the Leukemia Society for Anlophoma Society, I can't thank you enough from the bottom of my heart.
So the telephone number, uh, and if you want to go that way, you can.
A lot of people using online, but telephone numbers 877-379-8888.
Doesn't take a lot.
We got premiums.
Uh, if you donate 70, you get something, 100 you get something, you have 325, you get more.
I guess 325.
Yep, 325.
Uh, the grand uh the 325 donation gets you a golf hat, black golf hat, a black golf shirt, black to commemorate the Obama economy.
Uh commemorative original Dittohead t-shirt for seventy dollars or more, and uh the Ditto head t-shirt and a golf cap for a hundred dollars or more.
All that's explained at Rush Limbaugh.com.
Or you can call 877-379-8888.
Steve in Sacramento, my adopted hometown.
Great to have you here here, sir.
Hello.
Good day.
Uh by the way, thank you for your efforts with this curios caraton.
In fact, that's a perfect model for the disease we see in in our country.
And that is some of the funds, as you know, of course you're in the middle of it, go to alleviating symptoms, and some of the funds also go in a treatment phase to uh for adult uh bone marrow transplant.
Right.
But there's also more and more of the funds that are going into prevention, okay, more and more as they're learning more in the area of uh cell research and that kind of thing.
Well, that's now now let's come back to our country.
That's an important point, too.
Okay, so can I frame that then in Lincoln's statement?
And that is, as you know, uh the philosophy of the classroom in one generation becomes the philosophy of the government in the next.
Now what we see in the government today is a disease, it's cancer.
But we see more and more of the electorate, that's the electorate that's also got the cancer.
Now we've we cut we commonly complain about our public education system, which I am now officially renaming our public miseducation system.
And if we don't put more of our focus, refocus more of our energy in our time and effort to completely refurfurbish that publicational system, starting, of course it's the curriculum, which is mush, but the administrators are have minds of mush, and what do we expect our kids are going to have?
They're gonna have the minds of mush that you're talking about all the time.
But if and we we we almost think that it's hopeless to do this, but it's not, because we are paying the bill for it.
We are paying one hundred percent of the bill for it.
So as if we don't refocus our energies off merely the symptoms of the disease and back on to the root cause of it and to prevent it for the future generations, it ain't gonna happen rush.
We're not gonna cure this disease.
There's no question our society is in the process of being dumbed down and has for uh many generations.
The s the the the hideous thing is that it's done purposely.
Of course it is.
We know that.
It started way back in the early uh last century, and we know who did it, but most people don't want to take the time to hear about it.
But it's real.
I was even part of the conspiracy myself as an educator and as a former uh staunch atheist, humanist, and evolutionary biologist.
I was part of it.
I know what's going on behind the scenes.
Nobody wants to hear about it.
Wait a minute.
What what saved you?
Who can save anybody?
Well, no, but you You know you know who saved me.
There's only one person, and that's the ultimate truth.
That's you know, person who saved me got my head straightened out.
It was when I started reading the scripture and realized how brilliant it was.
But that's way before I came to God.
But wait, but wait, most people uh the people you're talking about say the scripture is a recipe of socialism.
Of course they're gonna say that.
And that's why I said all those years.
That's part of the battle.
The point is, what is truth?
You know, and if we say we're truth seekers, we can't use misinformation to bring people to some so-called truth because that's not a genuine truth seeker.
And here here's the deal.
We have to rate refocus all of our time, effort, and resources on completely refurbishing the entire public miseducation system.
If we do not, we are wasting our time for the future.
That's it.
You've talked about it a lot, but if we don't refocus and take care of it, because every single administrator in all the curricula are all with mush.
I know.
I hear about it.
And we cannot expect to cure the disease without taking care of that.
We cannot do it.
It won't work.
I give you a story.
Tell you a little story.
I know someone who has hascral age children in a school district.
This person tells me some of the most outrageous can I I'm gonna tell you one story.
Well, but before you do that, no, I was involved in a conspiracy.
If your producer wants to get back to me, look at my life has been threatened, just to bring this stuff out.
Okay, if you want to get back to me, I can at least feed you some more information as type of.
Okay, well, we'll get your number when we hang up here.
All right, but go ahead.
Yes.
This teacher was teaching ostensibly a history class, used the class each and every day to proselytize extreme liberal politics.
Exactly.
What she said in this class was no different than what you would hear on MSNBC or CNN or reading the New York Times.
It contained every cliche, mischaracter assassin uh mischaracterization, and character assassination of conservatives.
This woman, this teacher, was giving tests to students after she had given them the answers.
There was no history taught in this class.
It was pure current event, current day, present day politics.
That's how it's done.
She gave them the test so that the administrator would think her history class was going well and that her class was learning history.
And if you're a kid and you're in junior high or the you know, the junior in high school, who wouldn't want that?
I mean, the kids are not going to stand up and oppose this.
Now, a couple kids tell their parents about it.
That's how I found out about it, but the parents didn't want this mentioned publicly because they were afraid of maybe some bad things happening to their kids in the school.
That's right.
So they want to try to deal with it, you know, at the PTA level or talking to the principal, but that's that's often in effect.
Part of the whole strategy is intimidation.
That's partly right.
It starts with misinformation, and you need to know some stuff what's going on.
It's been going on for a couple of decades, most people don't know about.
You need to know it.
Well, we hear about we hear about I mean, I've got students who've been we've in fact we've had a ration of students calling here in the last month or so uh at the Haskell and college level describing things, for example, about me in their textbooks.
We know what's going on out there, and it is a problem.
It's not only miseducation, it is uneducation.
A lot of kids are just simply being dumbed down.
And they certainly aren't being taught the uh the facts and the truth of the founding of this country.
And they're not taught about American exceptionalism.
They're taught to think Obama's brilliant when he runs around apologizing for the country.
Seventeen and eighteen-year-olds thinking their country needs to be apologized for.
For what reason?
Not that they've old enough to know.
They just haven't lived long enough.
Anyway, I appreciate the call, Steve.
Thanks much again.
877-379-8888 is the phone number to cure the blood cancers today.
One shot.
Uh every year we give this.
Uh, these numbers, by the way, the website and the phone number will be open through the weekend.
This is uh is is how it's done.
But if you put it off, the idea is you'll put it off.
And it doesn't take a whole lot of money.
We are we're raising more money this year than last with more donors.
And uh no amount is too little.
There's no such thing as an amount that's not enough.
Because of a massive amount of people donating today.
It all gets added together into a huge number.
You're outdoing yourselves even from last year.
877-379-8888 or rushlimbaugh.com to cure leukemia and lymphoma.
This is incredible.
Folks, this is incredible.
Our total number of donors, this and remember, last year, our curaton set records in number of donors and uh dollars raised.
Our total number of doll uh donors is up twenty-five percent this year.
Twenty-five percent.
Uh, this uh is no doubt the result of the uh vast increase in audience that has taken place uh this year in the program.
But good grief.
Thanks, all of you.
This is just a this is just amazing in this economic climate, total number of donors.
I mean, we're looking right right now, we're looking at uh maybe this is the number of donors.
Yeah, we're we're we're getting close to uh 500,000 donors here in just with the numbers here for the first hour.
Uh at both the phone number 877-37988 or rushlimbod.com.
And of course, the uh the amount of dollars uh up commensurately as well on our 19th annual Curathon to wipe out leukemia and lymphoma.
Mark and Williamsport, Pennsylvania, your next, sir on Open Line Friday.
It's nice to have you here.
Rush, it's great to talk to you.
Thank you, sir.
I wanted to thank you very, very much for all the wonderful work that you're doing for the Leukemia Society, and thank you for uh your list from your listeners too.
They're the ones that deserve the thanks.
You know, I I uh they they're the one that they're the ones that deserve it, plus the people at the leukemia lymphoma society, because they're the one that channeled them under the right researchers, but none of this would not uh wouldn't be possible without all of you out there.
Yes, because I am a kid, I am a leukemia survivor.
Really?
I yes, I was diagnosed in 1990.
And in December of 1991, I had a bone marrow transplant, just like you were talking about.
What kind of was his straight leukemia that you were diagnosed with?
It was chronic myeloginous leukemia, DML.
How old were you?
Thirty-two.
Were you married?
Yes.
Kids?
Yes, two girls.
How did you feel when they told you that?
Pretty down.
What what what were you feeling like before you got the diagnosis?
Why'd you go have it checked?
Uh with me, uh I was I lost my appetite and uh lost my energy.
I was really fatigued.
See, that would be a godsend for me.
I would so you lost your appetite and uh and and you just tired all the time.
Yes, and I had a I had a very strong stabbing pain in my shoulder, and it turns out what that was from was from all the white cells, extra white cells building up in my spleen.
It grew so large it pulled the nerves of my shoulder down and put pain in my shoulder.
Okay, so you're diagnosed in 1990, December 91, you have bone marrow transplant, and did you say you're cured or you're remission?
They never say you're cured.
Yeah, that's what I thought.
But one of the neat things about it is uh since then, since I had the bone marrow transplant, you mentioned it.
Rush, you said about Glebeck.
All the research has come up with that that drug, and if I remiss, you know, if my cancer came back, I would not have to go through another bone marrow transplant.
I could just take that glee back because that was designed specifically for my type of leukemia.
Now tell me about the bone marrow transplant.
Uh I've not actually seen one.
Is it painful?
Uh you said you wouldn't have to go through another one.
What is what does that mean?
Well, it the the biggest problem is not the actual transplant, because when they gave you the stem cells, it's just like getting blood.
It just comes right through your veins.
Right.
Uh but before that they had to prepare you, and you go through I went through four days of radiation, total whole body, and four days of chemotherapy.
And now you wouldn't have to do that because of the research that produced Glevec.
Right.
And I wouldn't have to do with all the side effects that came from that radiation in the chemotherapy.
That made me sterile.
That made my eyes so dry I have to keep drops in all the time.
And other things, the you know, the little things, that won't go through the whole list, but they're all little things and liveable.
So now you've reserved uh re resume normal life.
Yes, I'm back to work.
I actually carry the mail and deliver letters.
You are a mail carrier.
Yes, I am.
Fascinating.
Fascinating.
Well, you know, this is these are just these are you know this what happened to you doesn't happen to everybody.
It's happening to more and more people, and that's the point.
More and more people are experiencing uh remission survival uh increased survival rates, but it still gets a lot of people.
And uh, you know, that's that's what the research is all about to try to create and what the donations are all about is try to create more and more marks from Williamsport, Pennsylvania.
Well, when I was diagnosed, I had a 15% chance.
Nowadays, if you get diagnosed with the same thing, it's in the 80s.
Well, that's just all I mean the nothing else needs to be said about the work of the leukemia lymphoma society.
Thanks very much, Mark, and congratulations.
I'm really glad you got through today.
Thank you, Rush, and thanks to your listeners.
You bet.
Uh again, the number's 877.
You want to create more marks from Williamsport, 877-379-8888 or rushlimbaugh.com.
Yeah, fastest three hours in media.
I can't believe two of them are already gone.
We have one more to make it all happen, and we'll come through.
See you shortly.
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