Posted by AzBlueMeanie:
Having recently lost my father to cancer, Sen. Al Melvin, you have my sympathy and best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Craig at Random Musings has already posted what I had planned to write, so Craig, I hope you will not mind my reposting your thoughtful comments here. Random Musings: Best wishes on a speedy recovery to State Sen. Al Melvin:
Like everybody I know (and I expect most of the readers of this posting), I've had family members get cancer. The fight against it, successful or not, is usually painful, always stressful, and invariably expensive, both financially and emotionally.
Some things are far more important than mere partisan politics, and this is one of them…
The Arizona Capitol Times has the story –
Sen. Al Melvin, a Tucson Republican, disclosed Nov. 9 that he has been undergoing treatment for non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.
Melvin said the disease is not interfering with his work and he expects a full recovery. Melvin, in fact, has been holding hearings on energy and water during the past several weeks. He said he was lucky it was detected early.
Information about Non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (NHL) can be found here, courtesy the National Cancer Institutes.
In short, it's a cancer of the white blood cells. It can be fatal, however it is also treatable, depending on the type of NHL and how soon it is detected. And the earlier, the better.
I wish Sen. Melvin (and his loved ones) all the best in his fight against this disease. While the partisan in me wants to see him out of office, I want to see it happen when Cheryl Cage defeats him, not this.
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AZBlueMeanie and Craig got it exactly right. Illness is a very human condition which should be aside from and above partisanship. Like them, I wish Sen. Melvin a speedy and complete recovery.