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samikeyp
08-09-2005, 09:21 AM
link (http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Movies/08/09/danareeve.cancer.ap/index.html)

When it rains...it pours. :depressed

NEW YORK (AP) -- Dana Reeve, who spent nine years caring for her paralyzed husband, Christopher Reeve, until his death last year, announced Tuesday that she has lung cancer.

Reeve, 44, said she decided to disclose her illness following rumors about her health in the media.

"I have recently been diagnosed with lung cancer, and am currently undergoing treatment," Reeve said in a statement. "I have an excellent team of physicians, and we are optimistic about my prognosis."

"Now, more than ever, I feel Chris with me as I face this challenge," she said. "As always, I look to him as the ultimate example of defying the odds with strength, courage and hope in the face of life's adversities."

Reeve, who starred in the "Superman" films, was paralyzed in a horse-riding accident in 1995. He died October 10, 2004.

Dana Reeve, an actress, was a constant companion and supporter of her husband during his long ordeal and his work for a cure for spinal cord injuries.

She is chairwoman of the Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, which funds research on paralysis.

To date, it has awarded $55 million in research grants and $7.5 million in quality of life grants
Jimcs50
08-09-2005, 09:26 AM
Life sucks sometimes.

:depressed
ShoogarBear
08-09-2005, 10:16 AM
The Curse of Superman continues . . .
sa_butta
08-09-2005, 10:37 AM
Best wishes to Mrs. Superman.
ObiwanGinobili
08-09-2005, 11:58 AM
jeesh.. that family is cursed...
god that sucks!

i hope she maeks it thru treatment, she has kids.. that'd leave them totally parentless.
:depressed
1Parker1
08-09-2005, 12:13 PM
Was she a heavy smoker?
Horry For 3!
08-09-2005, 04:27 PM
Ouch. That has to suck for the Reeve's family.
SWC Bonfire
08-09-2005, 04:30 PM
Was she a heavy smoker?

It is always assumed that lung cancer patients smoked. Smoking is only a risk factor, and a lot of the time the cancer developed elsewhere and moved into the lungs.

This is horrible, I hope that it is treatable.
batman2883
08-09-2005, 04:31 PM
It could be hereditary too, but i mean it could just be the Curse of Superman.........
T Park
08-09-2005, 04:48 PM
I wonder if this is George W Bush's fault too.

Christopher said it was his fault, that he was in a wheel chair to begin with.
Ocotillo
08-09-2005, 04:51 PM
Was she a heavy smoker?

I heard on the radio she did not smoke.
Ocotillo
08-09-2005, 04:52 PM
I wonder if this is George W Bush's fault too.

Christopher said it was his fault, that he was in a wheel chair to begin with.

Gee would you mind finding that quote for me.........

Or did you pull it out of your ass?
Spurminator
08-09-2005, 04:53 PM
Christopher said it was his fault, that he was in a wheel chair to begin with.

:wtf

When?
SpursWoman
08-09-2005, 04:58 PM
Wasn't Edwards the one that said that Bush's stance on stem cell research was basically responsible for Reeves not being able to walk yet?

I may be slightly off, but I remember it was something completely outrageous.
TheWriter
08-09-2005, 05:01 PM
Wasn't Edwards the one that said that Bush's stance on stem cell research was basically responsible for Reeves not being able to walk yet?

Wouldn't it have been him flying off his horse and landing on his neck that caused him to not be able to walk?
SpursWoman
08-09-2005, 05:04 PM
Wouldn't it have been him flying off his horse and landing on his neck that caused him to not be able to walk?



That's what I thought, but I'm not a doctor, you know. :fro
samikeyp
08-09-2005, 05:05 PM
neither am I....but I did stay at a Holiday Inn express last night. :spin
Spurminator
08-09-2005, 05:07 PM
Yeah, Edwards made a crazy comment about it, but I don't recall Reeve himself ever blaming Bush for his paralyzation.

He was just an open advocate for Stem Cell research.
Jekka
08-09-2005, 05:14 PM
It is always assumed that lung cancer patients smoked. Smoking is only a risk factor

Very true - a good friend to my family died last year of lung cancer and had never smoked. It's a vicious cancer, too - the best of luck to Dana Reeve.
T Park
08-09-2005, 05:22 PM
Gee would you mind finding that quote for me.........

Or did you pull it out of your ass?

He made the quote about circa 2002 I believe.

Edwards repeated another pathetic line, but yes Christopher Reeve did say this.
Mixability
08-09-2005, 05:24 PM
Dubya is responsible for everything including .4 :drunk
T Park
08-09-2005, 05:34 PM
Dubya is responsible for everything including .4


Your intelligence level rises to the top again I see......
Spurminator
08-09-2005, 05:36 PM
That's a gross oversimplification of what he said.


"If we'd had full government support, full government funding for aggressive research using embryonic stem cells from the moment they were first isolated, at the University of Wisconsin in the winter of 1998 -- I don't think it unreasonable to speculate that we might be in human trials by now," the actor told the newspaper.

http://www.hollywood.com/news/detail/article/1618083
T Park
08-09-2005, 05:40 PM
except for Bush wasnt in office in 98, so that would kill your "T Park downer"
Mark in Austin
08-09-2005, 05:53 PM
Never mind. Sometimes one can be a little too disrespectful when trying to make a point with sarcasm. :angel
Spurminator
08-09-2005, 07:10 PM
I don't think you get it.

Ask somebody else to explain it to you. I give up.