There just didn't seem to be any other way to explain why I'm not going to be present for the first two weeks of the Libby trial so I decided to resort to the truth.
As someone who has devoted years to building this blog around coverage of the CIA leak investigation, it's going to be really rough to sit on the sidelines for the first two weeks while Marcy, Christy, Pach and others cover the trial in person. I've been working for months now to obtain a press pass and set up the "Plame House" in Washington DC as a central place for bloggers to stay and share information amongst ourselves as we cover the trial. When I received (with the help of Arianna Huffington and Rachel Sklar of the Huffington Post) the only press pass awarded to a blogger to be in the actual courtroom, I was blown away. And as you might well imagine, it would have to be something pretty serious to keep me away for even a moment.
In mid-December I was diagnosed with breast cancer for the third time. It's a bit more serious this time and treatment is going to have to be more extensive. I owe a huge debt of thanks to all the folks on the blog who have stepped in and allowed me time to investigate treatment options with many physicians and make an informed decision on that front. In addition to regulars like Christy, Pach and TRex who have taken over many of my duties, I also need to express my thanks to commenters like Scarecrow, Looseheadprop, Peterr, Hugh and Oilfieldguy who have done incredible work posting so that I could take this time off. Guest posters like Taylor Marsh, Swopa, Steve Gilliard, Watertiger, Howie Klein and others have also pitched in, and no amount of words can thank the incredible RGB, our site administrator, who has taken it upon himself to coordinate all these disparate elements on the fly. It's been a daunting task and he has managed it spectacularly.
On Thursday I go in for surgery at St. John's Hospital in Santa Monica. My surgeons are Dr. Armando Giuliano, with whom I've been down this road before, and Dr. Jay Orringer, who comes highly recommended by both friends and his own superb work. Thanks to the time that all of those who contribute to this blog have afforded me to investigate all my options, I feel really confident in my choice of treatments. Right now I'm writing from John Amato's house, the Crooks & Liars bat cave, where I'll be recouping. The emotional support that bloggers like John, Digby, Arianna, and of course Pach, TRex and the amazing Christy have given to me during this time — well, there just are no words to express.
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the effort that allowed us to set up the Plame house. As Pach begins blogging from the trial today, one of only two reporters at a time allowed into the courtroom, I am just bursting with pride. Christy will be in the courtroom for opening statements, and Marcy will be live blogging the trial on FDL from the WiFi room within the courthouse. Fortunately there is no shortage of talent to be able to handle the coverage probably better than I ever could during the period of my absence. For this and many other things I am very grateful.
I'll be in Washington DC starting on Monday, Feburary 4. Before we settled on a surgery option I wrestled Drs. Orringer and Giluliano to the floor, got them in a hammerlock and made them promise me that I would be able to fly in two weeks. And so I will.
Covering the CIA leak investigation on this blog and participating in the community that has come together to do so has been one of the great joys of my life. There is nothing that is going to keep me away from that trial, and I just want to express my heartfelt thanks to everyone who is giving me the support to make that possible.
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Good luck, Jane. Our thoughts and prayers are with you.
Damn! You go Jane. We owe you such a debt of gratitude for all you’ve done.
My very best wishes and prayers Jane.
{{{Jane!}}}
Love ya, Jane. You are going to kick some cancer ass…not a doubt in my mind.
Beat it again, Jane! Win, Jane, win!
ditto what Christy said….
Good luck, Jane.
Many Blessings to you, dear Jane and I will hold healing thoughts for you and your spirit very carefully in my heart.
{{{{{{{{{{{healing prayers}}}}}}}}}}}
Mrs. retirin’ and myself will be sending all the good karma we can muster your way. You are in our thoughts, hang in there. The best is yet to come.
Thought and prayers babe, thoughts and prayers.
oh, damn. we’re with you all the way, Jane. wishing you strength for this ordeal.
You are in our thoughts and prayers as well, chez Mack.
Having some family experience in this arena, I have observed that the patient is the largest variable in the equation, and I am confident that your strength will serve you well.
God Bless.
Looking forward to seeing you back on the job soon.
Best wishes for successful surgery and a quick and uneventful recovery.
God speed, Jane Hamsher.
My thoughts and prayers are with you.
Third time’s the charm to beat it!
Best wishes, and that must have been some wrestling match!
Best wishes, even prayers from those of us who rarely pray. I know you hate to miss the action. We’ll be thinking of you, and we have confidence in you. Kick ass, girl!
And thank you so so so much for doing this.. at some risk, it seems, to your own health. America needs so many more people like you…
We’ve been more than eager to step in and provide whatever support we can. In the face of new challenges, the best of our FDL family has come together. I never doubted it. We’ve never done anything else.
Take good care of yourself, Jane. We need you around kicking ass for a good long time yet.
It’s a remarkable group of incredibly talented people you’ve assembled here, and I mean to take nothing away from them by saying that for this Libby trial to unfold without your uncompromising voice would be a loss I’d rather not contemplate on many levels.
Delurking to wish you a strong recovery. Thanks for all you do!
We are here for you.
Thanks for the honest and clear message.
We believe in you.
Beat the crap out of it Jane! My thoughts are with you.
Jane, our thought and love are with you, but..please do not fly to DC unless your doctor’s give the ok. Your health is more important than Libby, Bush and even us. Plus, we will need you just as much or more down the road, so for now put your health first.
Jane -
You will be in my prayers and thoughts, and you have my best wishes.
Wow, I’m so sorry to hear that, best wishes for a full recovery. I’m sure there is no lack of competance from the team you’ve assembled, and they’ll fill in admirably while you do what it takes to get healthy again.
just adding my thoughts and prayers for you too, Jane.
Good health to you Jane! Thank you for all that you do for your fellow citizens.
Oh Jane.
What you didn’t need in the midst of all of this well earned excitement was this punch in the gut.
What you do have here is a community that will crawl over broken glass to help you in whatever way we can. Please DO NOT HESITATE to ask for help of any kind from any of us.
Sending you much love, hugs and prayers.
RevDeb
JH… the news you bring this afternoon is… well… damn.
kiddo.
… Wherein you beat it for good! Take no prisoners, Jane!! See you at the court house…
Best wishes.
We’re all looking forward to your triumphant arrival in D.C. on February 4.
You’re gonna be OK Jane. St. Johns is right around the corner. Holler if you need additional support.
What you’ve done here bringing FDL to life, which is so valuable to the necessary discourse about our future, is testimony to the strength you have inside.
Jane Hamsher, fight it with strength and love, you’re obviously not alone, and you have my respect and best wishes. (and if you get down, it seems as if Amato has enough of a music stash to keep you healing.)
Good luck, Jane! Blessed be.
I’ve lurked forever but must comment now -
ALL of our love your way, Jane!
Mostly a lurker, but speaking up to let you know brilliant healing white light is flowing to and through you along with my prayers. With the amount of light and prayers surrounding you, darkness doesn’t stand a chance.
Jane, you are an honest to goodness heroine to me. I respect and appreciate you so much that I can’t put it in just a few words at moments notice.
I, as we all, will be spiritually by your side and awaiting word of your recovery.
Jane- my love to you.
Jane, I’m adding my thoughts and prayers to the group’s for a speedy and complete recovery.
You can do this.
-S
JPL @
26
ditto that.
and
Many blessings to you.
Will to win, Jane. My thoughts, heart and prayers are with you.
The team is doing a great job.
Dear Jane,
Healing thoughts, vibes, prayers wending their way to you.
I wish you could be in D.C. now. If not for you, none of your crew would be there. You are so deserving.
But you will be surrounded by healing ether wherever you are in these next weeks.
Looking forward to the fourth. Be well and godspeed.
research shows that people recover faster and better, in general, if there are family/friends rooting for them and praying and stroking and all that jazz.
You have all of us and all our resources (psychic included!) at your disposal.
Are you familar with the book Kitchen Table Wisdom?
a great read for you if you are not….
hugs,hugs,hugs!!!!!
Looking forward to your swift recovery, and your sage observations on the upcoming trial.
All the best.
Jane – Best wishes from downunder, get well soon. As much as we all appreciate what you do for FDL, your health is far more important so take as long as you need to recover fully, the rest of the team seems to be doing great.
Take care and know we are all there for you.
Jane, you know I adore you and I’ll be right here for you through this.
Much, much love,
TRex
XXXXOOOO
All good wishes, dear Jane.
Oh, this is upsetting news, but I hope you beat this thing like you’ve helped us beat these scoundrels!
Glitter blessings and a speedy recovery. Go Jane Go!
Jane -
Best wishees for a speedy and complete recovery!
Forget about flying cross country, get yourself whole again first. Bless you Jane.
Good luck, Jane. You keep positive thoughts going — I’ll keep praying!
Whatever the outcome of your current medical issues — your efforts in creating FDL and the way you have stood up and spoken truth to power — has made a huge difference in the world for tens of thousands of people, so many of us who view you as a dear friend, even though we’ve never met you.. you are enlightening the world in the truest sense of the word!
I have walked in these same shoes, sister. Don’t ever forget that you are a Warrior Woman!
No, no, no, no. This is so wrong. I am so sorry, Jane. I have nothing to offer except my prayers, positive thoughts, and a deep well of hope.
Jane…my prayers will be with you. I *know* you’re going to beat this thing.
Thanks so much for all you do.
Kindest Regards and best wishes.
Jane!
My heart and prayers go out to you — and Mr. K8 says the same. You will be in our prayers every single night from now on.
Your inherent strength and sense of humor are two qualities which will see you through this battle, for sure.
And I think the fact that you can swear like a trooper is another extremely useful talent to have — it’s helped me enormously through every surgery and medical crisis, and you are light-years more creative in that department than I am!
Many warm cyber-hugs are streaming out to you from our house. And Tandy, the amazing cancer-fighting Pupster sends her puppy-kisses, too. I hope someday to give you a hug in person.
Thank you so very much for all you do to bring into being this wonderful, warm community which fights the good fight every single day.
And thanks for your honesty about what’s going on in your life — it gives us who love you the chance to reach out in support and to offer our prayers for you.
Jane,
Make sure to put your needs here first. You have, as your noted, an excellent group to cover this trial. Just get well, you have a long future in front of you!
I had the pleasure of telling Jane today that, along with my son Esten, she’s one of the toughest motherfuckers on the block.
Sending all support and positivity your way, Jane. Consider me (us) a resource.
Darlin’ Jane,
May I join the chorus of best wishes, our prayers are with you, and all the other heartfelt thoughts offered by a usually hard-as-nails group? We really are with you in spirit and that’s where it counts.Get well soon, we’ll all be waiting for your return…
Jane,
My thoughts and prayers will be with you. I wish you a speedy recovery. We need you back in the game. You’re going to win and so are we! Go for it!
Dear Jane,
You wonderful darling,
Get well soon
Jane
Thoughts and prayers are with you. My beloved diagnosed with lymphoma in December of 2000, the worst day of my life.
Like you, she is a tough one determined to live her life despite the weak-knee love ones around her.
Again God Bless, and prayers do work.
EN
(expletive deleted)!!
Good luck; your guts should carry you far. Carole
Best wishes Jane. I’ll be thinking of you.
Jane,
As one who almost had his ticket punched by The Happy Dispatch a few months ago, I appreciate how Compassionate people face these things. I’m sure you’re more worried about those around you than you are about yourself.
One of the things that will surprise you is that the outpouring of Compassionate Love that will spring from this wonderful community will sustain you. You’ve helped open many hearts here, and our hearts will be your pillow.
Rest. Take your time and be well.
Namaste.
Our prayers and blessings are with you. I’ll use this opportunity to thank you and all the others who contribute to FDL.
My thoughts are with you, Jane.
I’m just recovering from surgery myself albeit minor — a hernia. But still I know you’ll need plenty of time and space for this.
All the best.
Jane, I will light a candle for you every night and send healing thoughts your way.
You are in my prayers.
My prayers, love, and thoughts Jane. YOu are also doing alot in sharing this with us. Be well really soon!!!
Lady Jane,
you are such an admirable woman. Truly.
Get well soon. If there is anything you need, it is yours just by asking.
All of our best wishes are with you.
Jane
The stupidest thing that Scooter Libby ever did was to incite a bunch of cancer survivors to track his lies and expose them as such. As you know–it just makes you stronger, less susceptible to their BS.
So Murray and I will be waiting for you in DC and we’ll have a great old survivor trial party. And then we’ll all turn around and kick ass.
Until then, take care of yourself.
I’m sure we would all be glad to donate to Jane or in her name to a charity of her choosing. God knows I was the astonished recipient of this community’s goodwill (and cash money!).
Three times is very hard. You are a brave woman. I add my best wishes to all the others that you get through the treatments as easily as possible and beat it once and for all.
There is nothing that is going to keep me away from that trial
THIS is the attitude that brought me to read this blog. This is the attitude that is bringing change to the U.S. This is the attitude that gives me hope for the future.
Thanks so very much for all your dedication and hard work. And do take extra good care of yourself.
You have my prayers and good thoughts, Jane, and anything else you need. Hugs
Margot
Best wishes, and hopes for a speedy recovery!
Jane,
My thoughts and prayers are with you. Get well soon, and please don’t overdo. There’s a candle burning for you in Savannah.
You are going to kick this thing’s ass. No doubt about it! You have such a positive attitude, and inner strength.
Best wishes.
All I ever do is lurk–and I lurk a lot! But this calls for a comment.
My best wishes for a speedy recovery. I’m glad you sound like you have really researched your options and that you have a good support structure.
The additional best advice I can give is to have someone with you for as much of the time as possible while you are in the hospital–it really helps to have someone able to “fetch and carry” when the nursing staff is too overloaded to help quickly.
Before we settled on a surgery option I wrestled Drs. Orringer and Giluliano to the floor, got them in a hammerlock and made them promise me that I would be able to fly in two weeks.
I hope that they didn’t need medical attention by the time you were done with them.
We all love you, Jane. What you’ve achieved here goes beyond genius — if they’re going to reopen debate on the Seven Wonders of the World, you deserve serious consideration.
Git-R-done, and we’ll keep the heat on BushCo until you’re ready for battle again. I look forward to seeing you (and the poodles?) in D.C.!
Jane,
My thoughts and prayers are with you.
FDL has given the liberal/progressive community hope through some pretty dark times and now it is our turn to return hope and comfort to you.
Love ya, Jane.
hizzhoner
Go get ‘em, Jane! FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT!
Good luck, Jane! We’re pulling for ya…
Jane,
Get well, we’ll all be pulling for you – and enjoy reading what Pach, Christie, Marcy et al write about the trial until you can get there yourself. Listen to your doctors and heal fast :)
Holding you in the light, Jane.
Jane,
The next triple grande latte skim is on me. Hell, I’ll fly down to D.C. and bring it to you on 2/4.
Hugs to you.
Best wishes to you, Jane, and your loved ones.
Jane, good luck and just take care of yourself. Things will run “by themselves” until you get back.
Very important question Jane,
Will your docs let you have chocolate?
wow
My thoughts and prayers are with you without question. Anything else I could possibly do to help is also offered. Beat this down and get back as soon as you’re ready – we need you.
…I so hope that you didn’t do any permanent damage to those Drs
Jane –
Oh, hell. So sorry to hear about this, although I have faith you will beat on this like Ali did Liston, or Clinton did Chris Wallace, or, well, you get the idea.
Get better soon. If there is anything us locals can do for you, or if there is a guilty pleasure that would make your two weeks of being on the medical no-fly list more tolerable, do tell.
Hang tough, Jane. We love you!
God be with you.
ISAIAH 53:5 But he was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities: the chastisement of our peace was upon him; and with his strips we are healed. PSALM 119:50 This is my comfort in my affliction:for thy word hath quickened me. Jane, “Hold on to God’s unchanging hand”, He will never fail you. You are in my prayers
Jane
Life does not always seem fair… but thanks to the Lake there will be justice. My prayers are with you.
Delurking to send all gratitude for your work and spirit as well as prayers and candles for your recovery and health. You’re headed straight for that seat in the courtroom.
Good luck Jane.
Jane, its all too trite to say but needs to be said–my thoughts and prayers are with you. You are sorely needed in this world. I’ll be thinking of you all the way through scooter’s trial, and all the appeals. That’s a long time and a lot of great thoughts coming your way.
aimai
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Strength and health to you, Jane. They have an excellent crew there at St. John’s. Be well soon.
From a regular reader and infrequent commenter – dang and damn it. Terribly sorry to hear it, and as with many here I’m sure, such news reverberates in me personally right now – with my good momma.
I know she’d give you a big hug and a kiss, Jane Hamsher. My heart is with you.
LT
Oh, Jane…so sorry to hear but know you will find the way and the strength to beat it. In mid-December I, too, was diagnosed with breast cancer and my surgery is tomorrow…The smartest thing I ever did was to let friends and family know what was happening..Their support and love and confidence in me has made all the difference.
And so it will be with the FDL community’s support of you through your recovery. Bless your heart.
Love and prayers …google kombucha tea. Cured Ronald Reagan of skin cancer. Century old eastern cure for many illnesses .Cancer among them. Chinese and Indian medicine often has cures that western medicine doesn’t.Bad timing for this suggestion..just want you to be well, healthy and happy. We need you.
Jane Hamser. Unstoppable!!
February 4 – I’ll take that to the bank. Stay strong.
Wow, so sorry to hear of your tribulations. FDL has brought so much hope and encouragement in these bleak times. It helps strengthen my soul, as well as activism. Please get well soon and completely. Best
Oh my. Many Blessings and Best Wishes Jane. I’ll hold you close in my thoughts as you go through this,again. Three times? Jesus woman,you must be made of steel. ((((hugs))))
Your in our prayers Jane.
Good luck to you in this new old road, with our prayers. You kick ass, not to worry.
I have never seen so many comments gush forth from this crowd in so short a time. It’s a good metric of how much we love you.
Not a one OT, either.
If you lack for anything, Jane, you will let us know, eh?
Thoughts & prayers go out to you. As Winston Churchill once said: “If you’re going through hell, keep going.”
Oh jeez.
Heartsick to hear this.
Don’t know what I can add, other than to point out again how much this blog and this movement (if it is one) have given to me and the country.
You’re changing the world here. And it’s appreciated.
Please post if there’s ANYTHING you need.
Jane, you have the love of this whole community. We’ll be thinking of you and pulling for you every step of the way. Go get ‘em.
See you soon in DC.
–
Jane,Fight and stay focused on wellness….stay focused…ommmmmmmm
Fight like hell Jane. Fight like hell. We’ll be here holding down the fort when you get back in good health.
All I could say was HOLY SHIT! when I first read the post. No what I say is I wish you the best of health and luck to you as you overcome (which I’m sure you will) this temporary setback. I look forward to hearing your take on the trial from my former home of DC. Best wishes.
About this time of year, as we entered the new millenium, I was walking–more like crawling–the same path. The outlook was grim.
Much love, Jane. Many positive thoughts and heartfelt prayers coming your way. May you be granted the same excellent health I now enjoy.
From another whose been through breast cancer, Fight! Fight! Fight!
You are stronger than all the bushes and cheneys in this world.
Look what you’ve done. You’ve brought us all together on the internets!
Prayers, Love and Peace
Jane, thank YOU for being the wonderful, energetic, gifted citizen who gave birth to FDL. I wish you good health, long life and quick recovery. You are in my thoughts and prayers.
I will pray that you get beat this Jane, which of course you will. Best wishes!
(((((((((((((((((((((JANE)))))))))))))))))))))
atta girl Jane…Three’s a charm. Love you!
Jane is a force of nature. My money is on Jane to make it Hamsher 3, cancer 0.
The best of luck to you, Jane. I know all your readers are pulling for you. We’re proud of you, too, for you have made activists out of hundreds, and perhaps by extension thousands of people who otherwise would still be sitting on the political sidelines. You’ll undoubtedly face your surgery with the same determination you’ve shown in the professional and political arenas.
Jane – You are an inspiration.
O name of Jane! Joy in the heart, honey in the mouth, melody to the ear of her devout clients.
My prayers are with you. Sending best wishes your way.
You are in my prayers.
Another lurker peering out to send heartfelt wishes for strength and recovery, and admiration and thanks for all you’ve accomplished.
All the best wishes from your loyal Italian lurker. Get well as soon as you can and come back to delight us with your passion and wit…
I am sure that you will be back stronger than ever !
Oh, Jane, so sorry to hear. You are in all our thoughts and prayers.
Take care of yourself and listen to your body when you need to rest. You’ll bounce back so much the faster – and all us FirePups will be eagerly awaiting your next post(s) when you’re ready.
Peace and love,
Sarah
Peace to you, Jane, and I’m happy to help out.
Be strong and get well, Jane. Mine and Joyce’s thoughts are with you, and we look forward to seeing you healthy and happy upon your return.
Please know that you have an open invitation to go sailing with us on Long Island Sound this summer!
jane!
you are the definition of courage in a society gone mad. your postings are the only thing that keeps me above water sometimes. the cats and i are lighting a candle for you(until someone’s tail catches fire, that is.) thank you for all.
PeppermintPatti @ 106
Oh, PeppermintPatti!!!
I’ll be thinking of you tomorrow — and tonight will be praying for you. Please — when you comfortably can — let us know how you are after your surgery.
Thanks for telling us. Support is so important — it feels like being held in warm hands.
Lots of prayers coming your way.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Firedoglake has brought me from the depths of depression and apathy into a world of hope and sunshine.
Bless you and fear not for we are all with you.
You made this place. You set these events in motion. You are the seed of this synergy.
God/Goddess/whoever the hell is up there, please bless Jane and keep her safe. If not for my sake (lord knows I don’t deserve it), then for her’s and for my children (lord knows they do deserve it).
The world needs more people like Jane. We need fighters with both chutzpa and class; there just aren’t enough. Now, we need Jane to channel her incredible resources towards herself and fight with that iron resolve in her own regard.
I’ll pray — I’ll pray hard — and, in spite of that, all will be well.
Please take care and return soon.
{{{{{{{{{{{{{ *** Jane! *** }}}}}}}}}}}}}
Damn, timing sucks, eh? But you’ve raised up a *good* team of live bloggers.
BTW, is there a video of that wrestling match w/your Drs?
Best wishes, kiddo…You’ll beat that motherf*cker
Oh, Jane, I can’t even express how concerned I am for you. This is maddening. I hope you have the very best treatment and doctors and that the cure is not too harsh. I am thinking about you and hoping you can beat the beast for good this time.
Jane,
I know you’re going to be fine. Sorry you have to go through the surgery and treatment, but you’re going to beat cancer big time.
I’m sure all the pups at FDL are on standby for any help we might give.
Winging light through the air for a speedy recovery. Look forward to hearing from you on the 4th.
You’re in my prayers dear, and I’m not a praying man. When all else fails, remember you have our collective shoulders.
Damn. Hang in there Jane. Let us know if we can do anything to help.
You are the second woman to tell me this same news in a week. In that respect, you are lucky winner number two. [sigh]
And as I did for that other woman, I am sending all the healing energy I can muster your way, along with my best wishes for a speedy post-op recovery.
Ask anything of me, of us. Don’t hesitate for even a second. Remember that providing an opportunity for others to give can be as valuable as giving itself. I’ll be there, we’ll be there.
PeppermintPatti @106
Sending good vibes and light to you too, PP. I have an unlimited supply. Be strong, be well.
Jane, words cannot really express how sorry I am to hear this. You’ll have my prayers and good wishes on Thursday, and throughout your recovery. You can beat this.
Healing light
I’m with everyone else. My very best wishes and thoughts go with you.
Mrs. K8 @ 138
{{{{{{{{{ PeppermintPatti }}}}}}}}}}}
Best wishes, thanks for telling your FDL family, too. We’re rooting for you.
The two most important things to have at this time Jane are positive thinking and friends by your side. It sounds like you have both. I guess this means Joe gets a reprieve until February…
Thinking of you Jane!
You are in my thoughts. Take care not to do too much too soon. Good luck and blessings.
Jane-I’m beaming gentle warm thoughts your way, and I hope everything turns for the better for you soon.
aw shit.
Wish I still lived in L.A. Maybe I could stop by occasionally to deliver some non-hospital food, if nothing else. (I happen to know where most of the best chili-cheeseburgers in L.A. can be found).
Take good care, girl. You and Christy brought me into the world of giving a shit, which was new to me at the time – it’s now become
secondmy primary nature.Thank you for that. Be well.
you get better soon by all means. We know you will be following it all!
Peace, the oldtree
I’m sure I don’t have to tell you how serious this is. You do what has to be done and take as long as it takes and we’ll all be here pulling for you.
A big Internet hug (as virtual as you want :) for you. Wishing you the very best for your surgery and treatment. You have built a community that will leap at the chance to help. Don’t hesitate t kvetch about some of the not-so-fun parts of your recovery — there are plenty of FDLers that will happily commiserate.
emptywheel @ 76
With that even the hard-assed warrior has a tear in his eye.
Thanks, guys..I appreciate it more than you know…everybody take care and be well…
You are in my thoughts Jane. Go fight the good fight knowing that you have the combined energy and love of thousands of strangers who want all the best for your health and wellness.
I pray you’ll come out OK, Jane.
Love,
Riesz
Jane
I was going to say something about the Libby Trial.
About how much you and Redd OK’d my anger that my son was sent to Iraq for lies.
Now, Just Thank You.
Jane,
You’re in my prayers and my heart. I’m an RN and should you want ANY nursing care while at home drop me a line. I’ll be back in California next week and would be happy to help you out.
Hey Jane. Get well soon. Whatever we here in CT can do to help!
PeppermintPatti @ 162
I too will be thinking of you, PP, as the new day dawns. All the best.
I’ve rarely posted, Jane, but I’ve always read this blog. I have such admiration for you and Christy and all the rest. Know that prayers and good thoughts and the power of the Ganeshu are coming your way from New Mexico. Get back as soon as you can. Your posts are indispensible.
Thanks for all the effort you have put in thus far Jane. Best wishes, get healthy and then keep on giving them hell!
Atta J. Turk
I’m sending my loving thoughts to you for rapid healing, Jane.
Bonne chance Jane!
PeppermintPatti @
106
Good luck to you, Patti. You’ll be in my prayers.
Just got out of the doctor’s office, a woman who just had done what I’m going to have done let me feel her boobs. They were great.
Was that too much information?
;)
PeppermintPatti @ 106
Many, many blessings to you PeppermintPatti.
All good wishes for a successful operation and a recovery marked by wellness.
PeppermintPatti @ 106
Peppermint pat: I hope all goes well tomorrow. I wear my pink bracelet for both you and Jane.
Was that too much information?
Hey, Jane and Patti. Whatever floats your boat! ;) Just keep putting one foot in front of the other – we’ll keep sending healing love and light your way.
Blessed Be.
-Jacquie
Jane,
I’m sorry you have another battle ahead and wish you a quick recovery. You have a lovely and tenacious spirit and your courage is an example to all of us.
Affectionately,
Susan M
Hope you get well real soon–we all need you here.
Thank you Jane…
Thank you for everything you do and for everything you are.
Thank you!
I add my light, wishes and spirit to everyone’s here but I won’t do anything so trite as to ‘wish you luck’. I wish you all good things but fighters like you tend to make their own ‘luck’ and rarely does one see such a formidable fighter. I send you all my love and spirit to aid you in this fight.
Best of luck, and please don’t get stuck in the pink ribbon ghetto!
Jane, to rip off a billboard here in a very cold Austin, TX, remember:
survIve CANcer
So, girl, when are you coming to Connecticut?
Jane,
Best wishes and God bless during this trying time.
Oh lordy, what a change of venue. Big time best thoughts and your certainly missed already. The snark will wait, gently rolling the waters till Feb. Be as well as you can be, lovingly *ilbo
Jane Hamsher @ 173
Actually it’s kinda Hot!
Jane,
After a long pause for oxygen and a kleenex let me just say.. Worst post ever!
Well this is just a pisser. Takes a lot of ram to deal with these interruptions. I guess Christy gets the couch in DC..) Pachacutec was wonderful today but even with a chartreuse boa he’s just not as pretty or dare I say, sassy.
Though we haven’t met I love you, your mind and spirit. All white light, warm puppy love, in a big poddle way to you sister! My goodness you must have a faaabulous hat collection by now! Now about those muckluks? It’s going to be chilly in DC. Can I send them to Amato land or the Redds? What size? (TRex don’t cringe, they are cool).
I bought a wonderful candle near the beautiful copper canyon, Mexico a couple of years back. It’s going now and will burn in it’s entirety for your healing.
So much love from your biggest Dirty F’n Hippie Hillbilly Fan!
I just got home, hit FDL and felt ill. It will be OK. My aunt has been dealing with breast ca for almost 30 years and is back on chemo again. She just had her 91st birthday and can run me into the ground. A lot of progress has been made.
Jane Hamsher @ 173
OH Jane! This why I love you. In a completely heterosexual way, of course!
Jane
Best wishes. We all really appreciate the great things you have done here at FDL, and are giving you moral support as best we can. My mother was diagnosed with breast cancer, and had a tough battle, but is now doing fine. So I know it can be tough. I’ll send “good thoughts.”
–pontificator
One of the things that keeps me coming back to FDL is your fighting spirit, Jane. Now, I have a better understanding where that no-BS fierceness comes from.
Stay strong. We’re all pulling for you. Knock that f*cker down.
May the Goddess bless you, Jane, and all will be well…
Jane @ 173 Was that too much information?
Jane, on this site of your creation, there will never be too much information. And do you see how many people never post but are here today? Kick butt, lady, with love.
Be well, Jane. I don’t think you have any idea how much you mean to so many.
Good luck, Jane. I just underwent heart surgery, and I know for sure that support of people (many of whom I’d never met) made a big difference in my recovery. Don’t forget how many are behind you. We’ve got your back.
I wish you patience, strength and peace. Take good care of YOU! Sending good vibes and lots of love your way…
I am just going to take a few moments of my time here and let folks know that I am going to click on each and every banner ad on this site – every day for a while.
This is an invite to follow me.
Jane,
Is there anything you need, or anything we can do to help you recover? A frequent firedoglake reader,
Leslie
Jane -
I’m sending nothing but good thoughts your way as you go through surgery and recovery.
You have done an extraordinary thing here, Jane. An extraordinary thing. You and Christy and Marcy (and many, many others) have kept the Libby case alive and clearer to understand, and galvanized the rest of us to act on it and many other vital issues. Thank you, for that.
Rest up, and get well. We’ll be here when you get back to your fighting weight. God bless.
Oh, Jane. I opened the FDL page and saw that pink ribbon and my heart just sank. But you are the bright, shining Warrior Woman, and I know you will fight this battle and walk away renewed. I send you healing energy, wrapped in love. Thank you for everything you do.
words fail, tears build, people around me wonder what has affected me so.
godspeed
ach, Jane…A friend of mine once described how I’m feeling after reading this news…Sometimes, you just want to punch Reality in the nose.
My thoughts and prayers are with you.
Jane, our hearts beat together with your’s. Many other’s will continue to beat because of your work.
Thank you for giving us the opportunity to fight by your side. Long live bloggers! Keep us posted as much as you can. These connections are the tip of the iceberg.
be well, Jane. godspeed.
My prayers are with you. Focus on getting better. Keep fighting. And get better soon.
P.S. When I need a good laugh, I look up the Cheney-shotgun poems posted here. They never fail to make me LOL.
ccmask @ 175
I will also. You are both in my prayers.
Jane,
Sometimes a boy’s gotta write to a person he admires. And I know I speak the truth when I say…
There are people out here who love you. There are people out here who cherish you.
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve read a post of yours and said to myself, “Geez, I love that woman.” And it is true for so many people who know you in person and those of us who’s experience of you is only your writing or a grainy video on cspan.
We love you for your passion. We love you for your wit. We love you for your sense of humor. We love you for your great intellect. We love you for all the things you have done for your fellow human beings. We love your sense of justice. We love you for the complete human you are and are becoming as your life evolves. And so much more that is beyond my ability to express or even beyond words.
Now, please do me a favor. Read these loving posts. Then sit, close your eyes, and breathe. And take this in. Take in the love. Take it in to every cell in your body, every healthy cell, every harmful cell. The love infuses your body and that part of you that is beyond the body and beyond words. Take the love in. It knows no bounds. It is for you, Jane, from all the people out here who love you. The love heals your body.
Love is the most powerful thing there is, Jane, and we love you.
Mike
PeppermintPatti @
106
{{{PepperminPatti}}}} Even though you don’t know me :-)) There are some very tough women here at the Lake. So many survivors.
Best of health to you; my thoughts will be with you tomorrow.
I don’t know what to say. :(
Jane, our hearts are with you. We owe you a huge debt of gratitude for all that you have done on behalf of Netroots and the Progressive movement. Your passion and energy has been an inspiration and a major factor in the Dem’s success in November. You have moved mountains, girl! Stay well.
Jane Hamsher @ 173
I assumed there was some kind of fellowship among people who had gone through a shared experience… but I had no idea. My goodness! :)
South Orange County Democrat @ 205
However, I refuse to put a pink magnet on my car.
Jane, thank you for sharing, my sincere wishes for a quick and thorough recovery.
RevDeb said it best above: “What you do have here is a community that will crawl over broken glass to help you in whatever way we can. Please DO NOT HESITATE to ask for help of any kind from any of us.”
That goes for those of us who lurk, as well.
Be well Jane! Thanks for all you’ve done.
Dear Jane, many blessings coming your way and thank you for all you have done and all you have created here on this site. You’re the best, always!
this is some capriciously cruel shit
((((((Jane,))))) you are respected, admired, and loved at chez cbl – our family’s prayers and healing thoughts will continue to come your way until that time they are no longer required. Rayne is right (natch)there’s nothing wrong in giving others an opportunity . . . you have given hope and direction to so many – no mean feat – surely there’s a positive balance
you have changed lives of folks who have never been here Jane Hamsher and you are loved
Make this cancer the usual Hamsher bitch !!!
My good friend Mary had surgery for the third recurrence of breast cancer just two weeks ago. She was out and about in several days, infecting her worried friends with cheer. May things go every bit as well for you, too, Jane.
God bless you, Jane. You have all my hopes and prayers for a rapid and complete recovery. Please don’t rush things if your doctors advise otherwise. Your health is more important than the trial.
Best wishes and a speedy recovery!!! Thank you for all that you’ve done, do, and will do!
White-light healing thoughts headed your way, Jane. I look forward to seeing you post from D.C. on February 4.
Jane,
I’m in OC, but I’m wondering if there’s anything I can do/bring you? I’d do the equivalent of crawling over glass (ie, brave rush hour traffic to Santa Monica) to get you whatever you need. Let me know…and don’t be afraid to ask…remember, I offered. :)
I believe you can contact me through the email address I entered. If not, leave a comment here and I’ll check back for an answer.
Our thoughts and well-wishes are with you, Jane. And when you’re in town, don’t hesitate to ask for any help we locals can provide.
Jane;
I hope you realize you have no choice but to get well now, and no more relapses. You have inspired so many with your wit and strategery and limitless energy: we need you. Valerie Plame needs you. The guy who’s gonna kick Joe Lieberman’s wrinkly ass in the next election needs you. So do all us semi-perv free love hippies who will always think you’re hot.
I understand the routine too well. I have an aunt in recovery, my ex is undergoing radiation therapy, and my earliest girlfriend (wow- 40 years ago now) is an annual participant in the 3-day breast cancer walks. I think you might get a kick out of her team’s name:
The Titsy Chicks
We – and I – need you well and freed from worry. With all your life accomplishments thus far, it might be tempting to slack off, but someday I want to vote for Senator Hamsher (replacing Feinstein), so there’s way more miles ahead and millions more to inspire.
Keep the faith in a full recovery, as I will. Hugs & flowers & best wishes from the leftiest fields of Oregon.
What MikeinSeattle says
Merde’. I was hoping you had been at MacWorld. My partner just had her hopefully first and last time in September. She is on the Tamoxflin(5 years) and Herceptin (at least a year). I am sure you have very good care but just in case you want another opinion, we went to Northwest Memorial in Chicago to the same surgeon that has kept Mayor Dailey’s wife alive for years now. Can’t recommend them highly enough. All the Best, and if we can be of any assistance I think you know how to contact me in Sausalito.
Mostly a lurker, occasionally a commenter. I chose prophylactic mastectomy a few years ago as I was at high risk for breast cancer (I have 2 young daughters). I’ve been through the entire process – surgery, loss, and reconstruction. If you ever have a question about any of this, I’d be happy to share what I learned from the experience.
God bless you, and the very best to you.
Best wishes, Jane.
Remember when John Dean said: “Mr. President there is a cancer on your presidency.”
Today one can say: “Mr. President there is a cancer survivor on your presidency and her name is JANE.”
I’ve just been listening to Bill Moyers’ speech to the Memphis conference on media reform, talking about corporate media as like the antebellum plantation owners. Said they controlled their world by the story they told.
Said the corporate media is going to tell their story, but the internet is the means for us to tell the story they will not tell.
Something like what’s been going on here.
Thanks, Jane, Christy and everyone.
Health is all that matters, Jane. You are a beautiful woman, inside and out, and you will remain so after the surgery. Prayers for your successful recovery.
Jane’s hanging at the C&L bat cave with me…. The injured helping each other. She’s doing well and I just gave her an amazing pretzel roll…:-)
Another lurker emerges. . .I can only add my own heartfelt wishes for a strong recovery. . .for an honest, funny and unblinking look at how one irreverent woman went through the same thing. .read “Cancer Vixen” by Joan Acocella (sp?). She’s a cartoonist for The New Yorker. . . .it made me both laugh and cry.
Mostly a lurker here, although had a swell exchange with Jane over at DKos about the creation of the Firedoglake publishing brand, some months back. Offering warm and hopeful thoughts and prayers.
Jane
You will be just fine. Let yourself heal, and get back in the game. You have the wind at your back.
Greg in Oregon
My thoughts and prayers are with you!
I noticed my best wishes got garbled in spite of my best intentions, so I will repeat for luck. I pray that you beat this Jane, and of course you will.
damn. just damn.
OK, what do you need us to do for you? Of course, we’ve got the prayer wheels and candles going, but let us know if you need anything else to keep you going. Even little stuff – for a friend of mine I got her a audible.com subscription because her vision was lousy during the chemo and medications, but her brain was just fine and needed relaxation and stimulation – anything, someone around here will take up the work.
You’ve been down this road before, and know all too well some of the terrain. Tell us what you are comfortable with telling us, and know you’ve got a lot of folks who are willing to help.
May every medical professional who cares for you treat you as their own loving kin, may each challenge of your treatment be met with strength, and won, so that you will conquer this damn disease once again.
with love,
Ruby
even though my mother said it.
I wish for the best
and hopefully more speed on the internets
Via Froomkin, Fox’s Chris Wallace of all people in this exchange with Dick Cheney on the latest escalation:
Yeah, that democracy thing is so overrated, Dick.
Nothing to add but a hug, Jane. You are courage personified, and a true inspiration. You are in my prayers-heal fast, we’ll need your snark against the forces of darkness!
I know you’ll face this the way you write: with courage, all possible good humor, grace and wit. I love your writing and will be thinking of you often. We all (and not just those who are part of this blog, but ALL of us) owe you thanks for what you’ve built here.
John Amato @ 230
Well I can only hope that an “amazing pretzel roll” is sorta like a huge hug. (edited. oops)
{{{{{{{{{{{{Jane}}}}}}}}}}}}}
Wishing you an uneventful surgical course, cheerful nurses to spoil you rotten and speedy recovery so that we can hear All about the trial from your sassy view point.
God Bless and prayers are on the way…
John Amato @ 230
Pretzel rolls will definitely cure what ails the spirit.
Wish I was there to chat with you guys. I could add my illness to the mix and we could sit around like Jewish grandmothers, comparing afflictions.
Many Blessings and a thousand thanks for your compassion and dedication to stopping the monsters among us.
I’m sure that you are a Three Time Winner!
God Bless, Keep and Watch Over You Always.
Thanks for sharing this. I sincerely hope you will
fully lick the disease.
Remember, squeezing breasts is not only theraputic, it saves lives.
Check yourself, or ask a friend to help. Seriously.
Oh Jane! You are in my prayers for sure. Blessings to you.
Kanzeon!
Namu Butsu
Yo Butsu U In
Yo Butsu U En
Bu Po So En
Jo Raku Ga Jo
Cho Nen Kanzeon
Bo Nen Kanzeon
Nen Nen Ju Shin Ki
Nen Nen Fu Ri Shin
Good luck with the treatment.
Be strong, Jane. All our positive energy is focused on you.
Jane, I’m a (longtime and fervently attached) lurker, surfacing to offer support as well as prayers. However courageous you are–and boy, are you!–third time/ “more serious” is terribly scary to hear.
Like some other pups, I know this path pretty well. I was diagnosed in 1996 with metastatic breast cancer. That means eleven years now of living, and living really well, with advanced BC! I’m sure you know that more and more people in this situation are having these very extended periods of enjoying decent health, thanks to new therapies and good specialists, as well as some great new progressive politics around breast cancer.
Goddess willing, your cancer isn’t at this stage. But as a ridiculously experienced survivor, I’d be so grateful to be able to offer you some supportive knowledge and encouragement if you’ve got to walk this path.
Love and healing to you–
Eve, aka beishung at aol.
Jane
if I may inject a teeny bit of levity: Barbara Ehrenreich, subbing for Lewis Lapham with the lead editorial in February issue of Harper’s Magazine, has some insightful thoughts re hope and the the culture of positive thinking. One example she cites – no joke – is a medical center message to “think of cancer as a growth opportunity”. Her reply was appropriately acerbic but not without humor.
(no offense intended to anyone whose life has been touched by cancer)
Jane, my heartfelt prayers with you. It is my fondest hope that the excitement of the trial boosts your immune system to such a degree that it goes hunting for every cell that is not a perfect Jane Hamsher cell!
Keep your chin up, Jane. When I’ve said keep up the good fight in the past, I wasn’t aware that you’d taken on bigger fights in the past. And now that you’ve let us know what’s going on in the present, I’ve decided to amend my exhortation: Please, please, fight and win this good fight, so you can have the satisfaction of winning the other one.
All the best,
CSiM
kristinejoy @ 246
YES!!! I knew I was a Good Samaritan at heart!
I am a regular reader who has never commented and happens to be here in D.C, where the circus has begun. I wish you good luck in your surgery and all the best with a quick and speedy recovery.
Jane, dearheart!
Remember these good times?
Ned Lamont primary party
http://photos1.blogger.com/blo…..G_0231.jpg
Plame Panel at Yearly Kos
http://photos1.blogger.com/blo…..G_0092.jpg
With Skippy the Bush Kangaroo at the YKos breakfast
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More to come, More. To. Come!
good luck and God bless. with all this good FDL karma we know you’ll be back better than ever.
Get well soon, Jane!!! We’re with ya babe!
Jane,
I always read FDL, or at least I try to, but I think I’ve only commented one other time.
Words fail me right now. I just wanted to tell you that I’m thinking about you, and will be sending you more of those good vibes as you go through surgery and subsequent treatment.
Please take care, ok?
Dear Jane,
De-lurking to wish you the best. See you in Feb.
Just back, such a posting, such a resounding chorus from fellow pups.
Jane, and P-Patti, too, we are all one family together and we’ll carry on and carry you close in our hearts ’til you’re back to full wellness.
Adding two purple bands to wear on my wrist next to the one I wear for my husband until you are well: Hope, Courage, Bravery, Endurance.
And love from your FDL family.
~ Sandy
Jane: May providence guide your surgeons tomorrow, and may your recovery be quick. We need you.
Healing beams headed your way, Jane.
Thanks so much for all your efforts, and I look forward to seeing you back in action on Feb 4th from Washington.
All the best,
Nan
BTW Jim Lehrer on the NewsHour is doing a decent interview of George “Ducking and Weaving” Bush. Bush trotting out the same tired, debunked arguments.
Ruby Tuesday @ 236
This is a seriously great idea, Ruby.
John Amato: She’s doing well and I just gave her an amazing pretzel roll…:-)
Spoil the heck out of her, John, and give her hugs for all her fans. And peeled grapes. And bon-bons. And gardenias. And the secret Lefty handshake.
xoxoxo, Jane. I’m looking forward to your post-op posts.
Everyone says it so well and I add my thoughts for good health as soon as possible.
Dear Jane,
I am very sorry to read this news, but you will beat this. You have my best wishes and I can’t wait to read your always great analysis from the courtroom. So get well and get to work!
With Great Admiration – John
Bush on the NewsHour disputes Lehrer’s characterization of Iraq as a broken egg. “It’s cracked,” he says. As, of course, is he.
Much love and may you be surrounded by a golden light of healing and speedy recovery…and your doggies and John Amato too.
You are one of the most effective Americans, ever. The rest of us, healthy as we are, don’t accomplish as much in a lifetime, as you do in a month.
You know we love you! Armed with that, go get ‘em, kid! We await your return, when you again will be the scourge of this rogue enemy administration. They don’t know who they’re dealing with!!
Candles are lit for you at the house of Blues, Jane. Our prayers are with you. Visualize impeachment — that should see you thru!
Very best wishes, hope everything goes better than even the rosiest forecast. May you make a complete and swift recovery, and get back to smiting the ungodly full-time!
Jane Hamsher @ 173
Soon to be a major motion picture
;>)
Bless you Jane. Thanks to you for FDL, the impassioned writing and the extended community created here that is spreading rays of hope in a time of great need. May your recovery be quick and as painless as possible. Know that a great many people are extending their hope and compassion back onto you.
You too PeppermintPatti.
goldberry diaried this at dKos, and she has a great suggestion: visualize the cancer as Joe Lieberman.
darkblack @
275
MikeInSeattle @
206
Wow! Good man! I second this emotion!
Good luck Jane. My best wishes.
BTW – this is sooo butch of you.
Darkblack 275
excellent graphic from and excellent mind
Would that I could take that bullet for you.
John Amato did give me a pretzel roll. I walked around the block and ate it.
You will be fine. I happen to be a physician in Santa Monica and I am familiar with the team. My best wishes and prayer. I am positive you will do well. I’m rooting for you.
Delurking to add the the list of well wishers.
Damn. I hate this news. Hate hate hate it. I have no doubt you will kick this thing, and soon let someone else feel your great new boobs in the waiting room, but I hate that you have to go through this.
Thanks so much for all you have done, and for what you will do. It means so much to many of us. I am sure there are lots like me who never participate, but still can’t go a day without a visit to the lake.
Do not wish to hijack the thread but I’m always off topic.
I disagree with Froomkin’s comment here:
So there you have it. You can be lazy, late, and listless and still be a “professional” journalist. As for partial, hello, who said blogs aren’t supposed to have a point of view? Isn’t that part of the definition? Even so, a point of view informed by critical thinking and skepticism is a lot better than the pseudo even handed stenography of the main stream media perfected over the last 6 years, the critique of which is the basis of most of Froomkin’s columns.
Don’t think for a minute that you are not in our daily prayers, Jane. We admire you and your strength; please have hope in the combination of your strong will and the well wishes of many, many people.
We all love you Jane. All the best.
Delurking to say all best wishes for a speedy recovery. The nurses at St. John’s are absolutely the best I’ve ever had so I’m sure you will be well taken care of. When you are feeling up to it, maybe you and Amato can take each other to Jin Patisserie on Abbott Kinney for some tea and chocolate. (Or if you’re not feeling up to it, let me know and I’ll be happy to fetch you a doggie bag.)
The best of luck to you Jane. Your work here has truly been an inspiration.
portia.vz @ 277
DarkBlack you’re a riot. That’s classic!
Holy f**king sh*t!
Almost always a lurker, but occasionally a poster.
Best of luck on your surgery and quick recovery. You have created quite the entity here at FDL. I (and many, many others) really appreciate it.
Best wishes also to PeppermintPatti, and to John Amato, and to all others recovering from illnesses.
darkblack @
275
PERMANENT-NO MORE CANCER
Jane Hamsher @ 282
Proof that you are an elevated being.
Not only can you walk and eat a pretzel at the same time, you can do it without choking on it then passing out and bashing your head to give yourself a black eye!
Back to the NewsHour:
Bush says this is an entirely different war, one which apparently needs to be fought with tax cuts.
I too know a couple 90 yr old ladies who have beaten cancer 3 or more times in the last 40 yrs. I’ve beaten it once myself and YOU WILL BEAT IT for sure. Thank you for all you have done to expose those crooks in DC while they do their best to wreck our country. May the force be with you.
Jane- I have just added you to my prayer list.
Good luck – my thoughts are and will be with you
Best 2U
Just read your post, Jane. It that isn’t “life” – I don’t know what is.
What news to have to keep to yourself this past month. Thank goodness for all those who pitched right in and helped carry the load with style and flair. Pachacutec kicked off the trial coverage today with flying colors, and you’ll certainly have plenty of up-close and informed trial blogging available to read to help you through the surgery aftermath, thanks to all your efforts to make this live coverage happen.
My very, very best wishes for a smooth surgery Thursday, and for a full and speedy recovery. Bless you.
Good vibes will be coming out to you from CT, Jane. Only a positive energy flow ! Met you in Branford last year. You’re the best.
I shall go and visit Konan Breast site, and make a donation !
Pam from Hartford
Yet another delurker, sometimes commenter here.
FDL is one of my “must reads” every day, so when I read this post, I felt like I’d been punched in the gut. But I know you have the strength and the heart to beat this, Jane. From someone who almost never prays, my prayers are with you.
susan @ 223
And what Kevin Hayden says, too. There will be more battles, Jane. There always are for heroes. Get well so you can face them.
Dear Jane,love, best wishes and positive vibes to you from down under.You are a true American hero.My respect and admiration for what you have done here is huge. God speed.
I have no idea what a pretzel roll is…
Hugh @ 295
For W, that’s not an entirely different kind of statement.
All the very best wishes from a constant reader. Jane, you are a miracle woman. You’ll heal from this just as you and this wonderful community you’ve built are helping to heal our country.
I’m sorry to here that, Jane. Get well soon.
ccmask @ 305
Yes, is that a soft pretzel? Inquiring minds want to know.
i don’t know either but was afraid to ask.
ccmask @ 305
I’m sorry to hear that, Jane. Get well soon.
tamar singer @
284
You see, Jane, how wide the net is cast?
My good thoughts are with you. You’ve been an inspiration.
stunned…Jane your spirit, which reaches out and grabs us through this blog, will give you the strength to beat this.
We will be here to cheer you on, and whatever else we can do. You built this community through a common bond of hope, and through that, victory. We are here sharing your hope and confident in your ultimate victory.
Yet another frequent lurker, sometime commenter. If I have ever ‘come across’ someone who can beat this, it is you.
Best wishes and be well.
We’re all thinking about you. Godspeed, Jane.
Cujo359 @ 306
Next he’ll be throwing in a $100 gas card and a large stuffed crust.
Wow! Shocking news!
I’ve lived through twenty years with cancer- as you know- it’s an uneasy friendship- but we’ve made peace.
Break a leg Jane!
Jane, all best wishes with your treatment. By now I think of you as a sort of relative, only with better political views than many of my blood kin. You’ve given us so much, and greedy pig that I am, I want more. Get well soon.
Ditto everything to PeppermintPattie!
Jane you’re so full of strength and knowledge. It’s the very combination that will take you past this crap and on to DC. You’ll beat this. Know that we’re all with you. We got yer back.
Sending my bestest good thoughts for a speedy recovery.
Like some others, I’m a long-time lurker, compelled to de-lurk by your post. I’m used to shaking my fist in shared disgust, or laughing at some well-turned phrases, when I read your posts…not crying.
My prayers are with you for a full and speedy recovery, and a quick return to all that you do so well, and with such passion.
Good luck. You’re in my thoughts.
Blessings to you, love in light to you, and I have a candle lit with your name in it to say your name often in prayer. You will beat this! Light sent to your surgeons as well. :)
I’m late to this post, but I had to pass on a sincere “get well soon.”
Jane,
As I said earlier today, what you and Christy and Pach and the FDL/Huffpo Team are doing at this trial is of an historic nature.
As to your current bout with cancer, I give you my best thoughts and prayers. I had my prostrate out in 1997 and every year my urologist tells me he can only give me five more years to live. It seems that five years is the limit to what they can say!!!
May your “five years at a time” stretch until you are over a 105.
All our best – Bob
Be well, Jane.
There’s not much I can add to the comments above, except “ditto”.
All my best wishes and prayers to you.
I used to hang out here all the time, then not so much-
I read what you wrote, and it was a gut punch, who if someone said grape, you might say purple, if someone said Republican, you might say asshole, and if someone said FireDogLake to me, I would say Jane Hamsher-
I don’t pray, but I do think of many folks and circumstances all the time, and so I will think of you from time to time, and when I am feeling healing, I will purposely think of you; a bit of wavelength payback, if you please-
♥ RF
Anything we can do Jane and it’s yours. Best wishes. Know that we love you and have your back. It is no wonder you are who are being steeled by your past experiences with cancer.
Madam Monk has beaten it twice so we know it is possible.
Let me also add that I had thyroid cancer this year and two surgeries. I had to have a full body scan done on Dec.19 and received the results last Friday. I’m cancer free.
Just wanted to add my voice to the chorus of “be well and come back to us soon.” Down here in New Orleans I’ve lost quite enough friends lately already. And from what Pac says it sounds like they might not even have the jury selected until you get back.
My gosh! I am sorry for being so uninformed. This news brought tears to my eyes. Please know that I will be praying for you and for your recovery. Weather you believe in God, or simply accept this as positive vibrations, I hope and pray that you do well.
I have not been able to read this blog because I am no longer able to read it at my work. The federal government blocks this website at my job. (This along with Daily Kos is forbidden. I have no problem getting FOX News – which I ignore.) I don’t get to use the computer much at home, so I catch this blog when I can.
Damn. Best wishes for a full recovery.
I don’t write here much but am compelled to do so with your news. I wish you the best, and I hope you will make a speedy and complete recovery from this round. My thoughts are with you.
Andy
ccmask @ 330
Oh that is great news!
Another long time lurker delurks to send you my love, my best wishes for a speedy return to health, and my immense gratitude for all that you and your colleagues at FDL do in fighting the good fight.
Hey Girl. Give yourself permission to focus on yourself for awhile. It’s not being selfish. We’re all counting on you to do that now. There will always be time for all this other shit. Its a renewable resource.
ccmask @ 330
Hey, good for you! Hope things continue to go your way.
Love and best healing wishes to Jane, Peppermint Patty and all those who are going through this.
Jane:
You’re going to beat it completely this time. Know you have the love and prayers of your blogosphere community at this site and others supporting you!
Go Get em, girl!!!
Jane,
I was reading through some of the many, many expressions of support for you and the phone rang. My mom. I told her about what you’re going through and the other cancer survivors’ comments. I was already pretty teary and torn up. My mom is 88. She’s survived cancer four times. She’s been cancer-free now for about 14 years.
Milly said “Tell Jane we need her more and more every day. She’ll do fine. You should listen to your doctor, son.”
Please continue wishing Jane the best, but it’s worth noting that Pach has a Trial Recap upstairs.
Keep your chin up, kiddo —
Another thing to consider — with the crack FDL team handling the FitzFest, and Grandma Nancy leading a motivated Democratic House, and Dr Dean applying his remedies at the DNC, this is a good time to kick back and let others run the show for a while. Stress is a bitch, and mental health vacations can do everyone a world of good.
Since the elections, I feel a huge weight was lifted from my shoulders, and I can exhale and relax for the first time in six years.
Give ‘em hell, Jane — but take care of Jane first.
1,405 DAYZ AND THE KILLIN’ GOEZ ON AND ON AND..
Citizen Hamsher:
Bless your fine heart and sensitive soul…while there is nothing I can say (or do) to make this any easier for you, please understand that some of us know that we also serve who only stand and wait. My wife has had an encounter with breast cancer and I have learned how to carry helplessness and fear and just be there for someone else…we are ALL here for you.
KEEP FIGHTIN’ AND WE WILL KEEP THE FAITH WITH YOU!!
Dear Jane,
As a long-time lurker and very occaisional comment contributor I wish you the speediest and easiest recovery possible and also want to take this oppurtunity to thank you for this site and for making the whole Libby affair comprehensible to the layman. You’re in our family’s thoughts. Heal quickly and come back soon.
Jane – You have my utmost respect and support.
Please know this: through your voice, you have changed, are changing, and will continue to change our nation for the better. You exemplify what makes me proud to be an American.
I wish you the best with all of my heart.
With love,
John Hancock
My thoughts are with you, Jane. Good, positive, loving, healing thoughts. Be well.
I am sending you my very best wishes for a speedy recovery, Jane.
I also want to express my undying admiration and gratitude to you and the firedoglake team for your tremendous efforts and success in building a blogging community that valiantly fills the gaping hole left by the no-longer-functioning-properly mainstream media.
I look forward to the coverage this blog will provide on the Libby trial. It was the coverage of the CIA leak that initially brought me here to firedoglake. It is your wit and intelligence that keeps me coming back every day.
I love your work, Jane! You are an inspiration!
Be well, friend.
We love you, Jane. You know that, don’t you? It is true.
I spent a week with my sister in L.A. a few months ago while she was going through treatment for her *fourth* occurance of breast cancer. Her first occurance was when she was in her mid 30’s, and she has beaten it every time. She’s a fighter.
So are you. You will beat it too.
Jane,
My heart broke when I read this post. You have been such an inspiration to us all and so much more than you will ever know to me.
I hope your recuperation is fast and you are back soon. Perhpas Mike Finns can stop by — his music is so beautiful. Music heals the heart and you deserve some of that beauty while you are healing.
Be well, you are in my thoughts and prayers.
Delurking to wish Jane — and all other similarly affliected bloggers — swift healing.
If you aren’t in information overload some good links for treating breast cancer, esp alternative. These are smart, innovative docs:
Ralph Moss’s Alternative Cancer Center, http://www.ralphmoss.com/
Dr. Nicholas Gonzalez Nutritional Regimen (NIH funded), http://www.dr-gonzalez.com/
Dr. Block’s Integrative Cancer Center, http://www.blockmd.com/
[Mod note; edited to reduce number of links. Feel free to post the other links in separate comments. Thanks.]
We at the lake shall “WILL” you well, honey.
Amato at 230 — Oh man, that is WAAAAAY more information than I ever needed to know. *g* (Just kidding…but it did cry out for a snarky retort.)
Add me to the list of those who will pray for your complete recovery, Jane. You are a hero to thousands of us who have found inspiration here at the Lake. (Maybe Digby will pay you a visit in the hospital?)
ccmask @ 330
Oh, ccmask, how wonderful!
I didn’t know about your situation! Did you tell us on a day when I wasn’t here? Or did you keep it to yourself?
If you voted for privacy, I won’t chastise you for that, not in the least. Each person knows what is best in bearing the weight of suffering. There are some things I will always be private about, so that decision is always sacrosanct to me.
Just hope you know how much we all want to support you through any spell of darkness you may have to contend with.
Thank you for sharing your great news from Friday!! You must have had a SPLENDIFEROUS Friday night!
Wooo Hoooo!!!!
Good Luck Jane. Having been down this road with both my sister and my mother I have a little bit of a clue what you are up against. For them the outcomes have been good… so far… but you always live in fear of recurrance.
I learned of my sisters breast cancer 2 days before 9/11 and woke up that day wanting nothing more then to go see her and hug her.
I went with her to most of her appointments, before, during, and after. A little over a year later my mother was diagnosed as well. This was on the eve of the invasion of Iraq. Dad and I had a good long walk and talk about his days in the civil rights movement when I went up to stay with them during the surgery.
About 6 months later I was leaning back scratching myself and felt a lump in my own breast. Imagine my surprise. A biopsy showed it to be nothing but a solid lump of fatty tissue but until that came back the docs were taking it seriously too.
Take care of yourself right now. The crimes of the House of Bush will still be around to investigate when you heal and get your energy back. Rest now. Take care of yourself. You’ll need it. And we demand it of you.
Peace,
Andrew
Oilfieldguy @
74
Well said and I second. Jane, you are a battler and a hero in so many ways. Best wishes and best luck.
Jane, you inspire me with all that you’ve done. I know that after this, you will have inspired me with your determination to thrive. Health, health, health to you now.
Stay strong. Please know you are very much in my thoughts and prayers.
May Isis watch over you and heal you, Lady Jane! You will be in my thoughts and prayers. Goddess speed your recovery.
Blessed be.
Moderator chopped post continued:
Dr. Burzynski’s Clinic, http://www.burzynskiclinic.com/
Other ideas:
High dose Vitamin C IV’s against cancer (for real), http://www.medpagetoday.com/He…..ma/tb/1733
Ginkgo Can Be Useful for Aggressive Breast Cancerhttp://www.mercola.com/2006/mar/16/ginkgo_fights_aggressive_breast_cancer.htm
In “Waking the Warrior Goddess”, Dr. Horner cites current research to substantiate her claims about supplements which support the immune system.
Vitamin D can curb breast cancer progression. Check your 25(OH)D, want it >40 http://www.newstarget.com/001764.html
Just a few resources that I have found useful over the years.
Hope you can rest in the love and appreciation of your friends.
What a kick in the gut. Dammit.
We’ll expect you to report ready for action, front and center in February, Hamsher.
Please take care of yourself. Please let others take care of you. Please be well. Don’t make me beg.
From a daily reader (but infrequent commenter), best of luck to you Jane – I wish you a successful surgery and an exceedingly speedy recovery.
Oh, and thank you, thank you, thank you for making this amazing blog possible!
God will watch over you Jane, you’re too tough not to beat this thing, and all of use will be pulling for you. Please take the time to get well before you jump back into action – we need you more than you will ever know!
Jane,
Others have been more eloquent than I could ever hope to be but I wish you all the best for a full and speedy recovery. Your writings have been a nearly daily constant in my life and your development of this community has been a godsend for the sanity of many of us.
My thoughts and prayers are with you. You are a wonderful gift to us all.
Jane,
I do not comment much here. However, I am a daily reader, and love this site. I wish you the best of luck! Cancer will learn (again) what the right wing has learned over the last few years: Don’t mess with Jane!!!!
Give ‘em hell, Jane. We love you.
Peg
Sending you love… the one thing that never gets EPU’d.
Best wishes for a speedy recovery. We are all so in your debt. You have all our prayers.
Jane,
Best wishes and a very speedy recovery. Looking forward to reading your posts soon.
May you come out of this just as strong and passionate as ever.
My best again.
Dear Jane, So sorry you are dealing with this nastiness in the midst of so many courageous battles.with love and admiration, I sincerely hope all for the best.
I was a patient also at St. John’s (twice)and agree the nursing care was superlative.
I agree sometimes surgery is the only way, but post op therary now includes so many alternative treatments to offer. Safer and often more effective than oncologists wouls be usually willing to admit.(Big pharma is behind them) Like insulim potentiation theryapy, which i have read makes chemothreapy so much more potent, much less is used, thus far fewer deleterious effects at all. Especially in terms of not ruining the immune system. Just, please, consider your options
Strength to you, brave Jane,–Louise
Cujo359 @ 309
I finally did a web search, and came up with this:
http://www.jjsnackfoodservice……?item=7052
Apparently, it’s a soft pretzel that is massive enough to use as a roll.
Thai is “THERAPY”. Pls. forgive my typos.–Louise
Best of luck to you, Jane.
You’ve got a bitter pill to swallow, but you have more friends to help you through it than most.
sending love and hope your way- Mike in Seattle said it best – take the love in!
and thank you for this great blog- it a gem.
Your honesty, wisdom and grace have given the rest of us great hope during many dark hours. It’s our turn now—I hope you can feel the love and support from all of us whose lives you have touched and inspired.
Speedy recovery, Jane!
- Coz
I’m headed over to all the fundie websites to add Jane Hamsher to the prayer lists.
Who’s with me?
[Mod Note; just don’t ask them to come visit, OK?]
Dear Jane, all the best to you. My fervent wishes for your recovery.
Jane,
My only comment is bona fortuna now and in the future, surrounded by the friends you richly deserve.
Maddy aka Fues aka Burnie
Prayers and healing thoughts for you, Jane.
Dear Jane,
Tears rolled dowm my face as I read your post. You have done so much and so much has been asked of you. St. Johns is a good place and I know they will take good care of you. As I Laker in the neighborhood, is there anything I can do to help? Tangerines from the Wednesday market? Chocolate? A better meal then they serve in the hospital? Whatever you need. you have only to ask.
Know that we in Topanga love you and that are thoughts are with you.
Claire AKA Topanga-Lib
suspect-device @ 193
Amen! And suspect-device, happy to hear that the beat goes on…
Thanks and gratitude to Christy, Pach, Trex, LHP, and all the other pals supporting Jane through this time.
Jane:
All of us FDL devotees here in Connecticut want you back on your feet and raking the muck.
I’m offering my professional services (I’m a radiation oncologist) gratis for your service to humanity. I really hope you don’t need them.
Best wishes for an uncomplicated surgery and less chemotherapy and radiation therapy treatment after surgery than you thought you might need, and also that the cancer leaves you alone in the future.
I hate it when bad things happen to good people, and it’s time for this kind of stuff to stop!
mullic@
Wishing you a complacation free, painless as possible procedure and recovery Jane. You have a ton of people sending you Love here so I look forward to hearing of your quick recovery.
lo lo mai,
Leslie
Jacqrat @ 195
Jacqrat, sir, to hear is to obey. Clickin’ to beat the band.
Jane, I know that you will have a speedy recovery. You will be in the thoughts & prayers of many people, including mine. AND that force will be with you.
You’re a kick-ass kinda gal Jane, so go and do just that to the cancer-KICK ASS.
Delurking….
Damn, damn, damn. You’re in my thoughts. Take care.
Sweet Jane, I don’t comment regularly, but read FDL regularly, I do.
Listen, Tiger — We love you, you fighter, you.
Kisses from a stranger.
Eureka Springs, AR @ 334
ccmask, gator goodness complette!! {{{{{ ccmask }}}}}
Aaah! I’m kind of dumbstruck.
Thanks for sharing this personal thing with us- I learn so much reading here, and now I’m learning of courage.
Won’t get any more mawkish than that… but felt strongly to send my best & most positive thoughts… echoing those above.
Longtime listener, first-time caller. Just found out about this. Aiee. Please take care of yourself, mmkay? Best of luck with everything, and GET THE FUCK BETTER FAST.
I’m late coming in here, partly because I wanted to read every comment. Truly amazing folks here. Quite the get-well card, eh?
Thanks, Jane, for making this happen. Keep kickin’ butt, in the hospital and recovery, and in DC when you get there, and for a long time afterward.
Dearest Jane
Please take care of yourself first. Allow as much time as you need to recover. I know how much you want to be at the trial but perhaps there is a reason you aren’t to be there just yet.
I trust you will know if and when it is the right time.
You will be in my thoughts and meditations. Here’s to a speedy and full recovery.
Jane, from a longtime lurker and avid reader of your fabulous blog – words don’t do justice to the amount of well-wishing that we all wish to convey in this moment that has to be unimaginably hard for you. I’m sure I’m not saying anything that the previous 385-odd comments haven’t already made you aware of, but you have a huge crowd of people using sheer force of will to help any way they can, from wherever they are. A speedy recovery to you!
I am on the newer side here, but want to say best of wishes for your hurried back recovery. Don’t worry these trials can get delays and you may be back in the midst of it from close to the begining just like you wanted.
Take care and keep those Doctors in the hammerlock! Will be looking forward to your return post.
Peace be with you, Jane. I will keep you in my thoughts and prayers as you walk this journey.
Lisa
(DKOS reader)
Jane, you are 100% correct, there IS nothing that is going to keep you from covering that Libby trial….you just do what you need to do and then get on with filling all of us in on all the details and the sidestories.
we are sending all our postive energy your way . Know that untold numbers of supportive hearts will be with you in that surgery room….get well..thats ALL that really matters when it comes right down to it.
Jane, Wasn’t it Lou Reed who sang the line,
ChristmasFitzmas in February, on his New York CD? I think these are the pueblos. What paw size?Jane, I had no idea. Just make sure you get the best medical attention. I did 25 years ago when I had Hodgkins disease. Here’s to you having many, many more years of being one of the world’s most annoying liberals. My love, thoughts and prayers are with you.
((((JANE)))
Our thoughts and prayers are with you during this crisis….but know what! You will be fine..I just know it. Your FDL family will be holding you in our arms til you arrive in DC and on your way back to health. Til then, relax and know that you are loved.
To PeppermintPatti...the same goes to you for tomorrow…this is a powerful family and we don’t let go of our loved ones and you fit the bill to a T. So, hang in there and keep us posted as to your recovery. Love and hugs to your and your family…keep the faith!
Godspeed to both of you!
Maureen
Look how many strangers you have on your side. And each and every one of us loves you.
Jane, you and Christy and the rest of the firepups brought me here to FDL to cheer for justice and truth. Keep up the fight my heart is with you….
Dear Jane,
I’m not a “traditional” pray-er, but I’ll ask whatever Spirits are out there to watch over you.
When you DO make it to DC [unfortunately we frequently have HUGE snowstorms in Feb.; pack wisely], please keep my data for some “non-traditional therapy” appropriate for FireDogs: I have four nice woolly Chow Chows. C’mon over and snuggle up with them.
Also gloves, coats, mufflers etc. available for loan.
Thoughts and prayers going out to you.
I’m de-lurking to add my voice to the chorus. You’ll be in my thoughts over the next few days as I hope for your speedy recovery. Your work, your voice, and your passion have made so many good things possible. Be well.
With all sincerity: prayers for a swift and full recovery, Jane. It is a cruel disease — but not an invincible one. All will be well.
Jane Hamsher @
173
Haa! I guess I just “learned something else!”(/dusty59@393)
I’ve been on Tx for Hep C for the past many months, (probably have another year Tx to go) and get pretty down at times. It is good for me to read all above; that I’m not alone dealing w/ life… encouraging to me as well.
I think I may have posted here once or twice, but I usually just lurk.
Anyway, I’m coming out of my own lurkdom to thank you for all you do, and to send you my hopes for a speedy, full recovery.
Jane,
I will thinking of you everyday. We all love you.
Carl
Jane…you are one hell of a fighter in so many ways and areas. I will have thoughts and prayers for you.
Jane,
As tempted as I am to gush & mush about what you and fdl have meant to me, I’ll skip that and add my secular humanist prayers and love to the huge collection you already have. So I’ll expect to see your posts in early February, yes?
Jane – I may disagree with you on most things political, but my heart goes out to you during this difficult time.
My prayers.
Joshua Trevino @
408
Thank you, Josh. That was very sweet.
You have created an incredible community here and I wish you the best. I have no doubt you will beat this newest bout, and I plan on seeing you in DC during the Libby trial. Go, Jane!
Wow. Wishing you the best Jane. If I’ve ever met (sort of) a woman who can beat it, it’s you.
I will pray for you as well Peppermint Patti. Good luck tomorrow.
Jane
I am so sorry to hear your news. I know it’s scary. You have my prayers and I’d like you to send me a physical address so I can send you a book.
Have you ever heard of wheatgrass as a healing alternative treatment?
It’s a tough choice to eat raw food, but wheatgrass, rejuvelac and Anne Wigmore’s work has saved thousands and thousands of lives. You can grow it yourself and/or purchase trays of it from a local source. I grow it myself and also purchase from the local grower for Wild Oats/Whole Foods.
You have to be willing to follow the diet, so if you get the “jist” about raw foods and feel like it’s not for you, just let me know and I won’t send the book. If you’re open and willing to not eat processed food, meat, milk, etc., please send the address and I’ll get the book to you tomorrow. Green and red raw foods are delicious, but it takes time to say no to a lot of things that you may be used to eating. There again, you may already be a raw food person.
Whether you think wheatgrass is for you or not, I promise that a few spiritual friends and I will do everything we can to send you absolute and very powerful healing light. You will be well Ms. Jane and you will clear up whatever it is that needs to be cleared up!
We want you to lead the way in 2008! We love you and we want you well and back on track for the 2008 Denver Convention! Live blogging from the Mile High city… woo hoo! Got that?
Hang tough, Jane, and get completely well soon.
Godspeed Jane, my thoughts, prayers and fiercest hopes for a speedy recovery. I will be looking forward to your commentary on the Libby trial progress. And thank you for your much needed thoughts about my son when he returned from Iraq. Take care,
sweetp
dear jane,
i’ve lurked here for over a year. though i’ve never posted, i did exchange a few emails with you back in the fall of 05. i can never thank you enough for the amazing good you’ve done in creating this community – an oasis of sanity and a much needed outlet for ideas and information to be exchanged during these trying times.
over the length of your tenure it has been truly exciting to see how influential blogs have become in shaping our national discourse and exposing the utter bs we’re fed by the msm and elected officials. it’s been fun/gratifying to see you emerge in radio and television interviews as a nationally recognized expert plameologist. in a sea of blogs firedoglake has always stood head and shoulders above the rest due to your keen insight and razor wit. nobody puts it like you. nobody.
you’ve buoyed my spirits on a daily basis all this time. now i hope all these posts lift yours. you are the very best. please know my thoughts are with you as you take on this next challenge. you are the baddest of the bad asses.
every bit o positivity your way,
jv
Be well soon, Jane.
well wishes and cheer from planet brooklyn. and please don’t hesitate to reach out to your many nameless friends. you dirty hippies touch more lives than you’ll ever know… :^)
Yet another lurker wishing you the best.
Jane,
I doubt that I will ever meet you, and yet, I feel as if I already know you. You make a huge difference in the lives of ordinary people like me, and you do that everyday. My thoughts are with you.
Love to you Jane!
You have a big big family all around this globe wishing you well.
Good luck and best wishes.
Delurking to say prayers and Godspeed for a short and easy road for a full and complete recovery and excellent health ever after.
Ann in Atlanta
Much much love, many big bear hugs.
Jane:
Thanks for everything you are doing to help us find the truth.
I’ve been there – two modified radical mastectomies – 20 years ago and 8 years ago – so I am officially a survivor. I am wishing you all the luck in the world.
Karen
I wish you well, Jane. Take care of yourself.
Jane Hamsher @
173
No.
My thoughts and 21st century science will be with you.
Best of luck Jane. Take care of yourself first, that’s most important. We’re all rooting for you.
I’m burning some of my favorite incense and saying some prayers for you. Let’s go eat some healthy Tuscan food as soon as you’re better.
What terrible news, Jane. I’m glad your doctors are confident enough to promise that you can go east so soon, and I hope all will go as well as possible. A three-time winner—that is amazing. Get well soon.
Dear Jane,
Long time lurker.
I read the site every day.
It’s essential.
So are you.
Thank you so much for what you do.
We’re all pulling for you.
100%!!!!!!!!!!!!
God Speed, Jane. And thanks to the Progressive Blogosphere for all you are doing to support one of the most powerful and articulate voices in our community.
You go, girl! Keep fighting the nasty thing that has invaded your body (as well as the nasty things that have invaded our body politic.)
But please don’t push yourself too much to watch Scooter sweat on the stand. We need you too much for the long haul, the future.
Best wishes. Take care of yourself.
Take care Jane. Best wishes to you.
Jane, like everyone else, my thoughts and prayers are with you. Lots of good wishes and positive vibes are headed your way from the Commonwealth,
–Jenn
Jane -
Another lurker surfacing to wish you strength and courage and the best possible outcome to your surgery on Thursday; may you be buoyed up by the prayers and good-wishes of your friends and members of the cyber-communities. You’ll be in my thoughts…
God Bless you Jane.
Good luck Jane. we’re all thinking of you. Even us lurkers :-)
Jane,
My hopes and wishes for a strong and speedy recovery.
-GSD
Namaste, Jane. Keep your eyes on the prize.
jane,
i just want to add my thoughts and prayers to thos of the mighty community of friends you have assembled.
it is a great blessing you have bestowed upon all of us.
just know that you are admired and respected by those who have not had the pleasure of your physical presence but are better citizens for your having built this powerful forum of fearsome intellect.
as i said, you are in my thoughts and prayers. please get well on whatever timetable your body requires. don’t take short cuts.
dan
Dearest Jane,
The bestest and mostest love and prayers from an old lurker who lives back by the fireplace here at FDL. If I had the power to send you 1/100 of what you have given me thru this new home, you would fly to DC on gossamer wings!
Gene & Gumby
Oh, Jane. This just sucks. Get better, young lady. That’s an order!! ;-D
We’ll all be here when you get back.
Jane,
Couldn’t read past #50 before commenting. I found your blog in spring 05 and thank God I did. You have changed so many lives and brought us all new direction in our thinking and our “activist” efforts.
You have a battle on hands, but you can do it. Clearly you see how many are praying for you.
LUV to you!
You will be in my prayers.
You deserve only the best, Jane. Speedy recovery.
Dusty59 @ 408
Dusty59, ‘ere. {{{{{{{{{{{ Dusty59 }}}}}}}}}.
May the Force be with you, Jane.
Haven’t read through all the comments, but here’s two more cents:
LADIES, GET MAMMOGRAMS NOW!!
I wrote this song that I sing to the techs. It makes them laugh. To the tune of “Thanks for the Memories”
“Thanks for the mammogram.
The left one and the right,
You squeezed them really tight!
But now I know that I’m OK
And I can sleep at night.
So, thanks for the mammogram.”
Feel free.
Dear fantastic lady,
Good vibes and a collective *hug* coming your way from Seattle.
Be gentle and true to yourself.
Jane,
I am saddened and distressed to hear this news. I wish you all the best as you face this challenge, and I know you are strong enough to meet it head on.
My thoughts and hopes are with you.
best wishes for a complete and speedy recovery.
Jane,
Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Many on this site have advised you to rest and let FDL worry about the trial why you recover. I second that advice, but since we all know you are going to ignore it (you used to cut short your exercise to resume blogging!), I’ll add my own unsolicited recommendation:
Enlist the manpower of the medical students, surgical residents and nurses to print out hourly updates of FDL/TNH posts & comments. Have the surgical team pile them up at your bedside. Each time you emerge from sleep you’ll have a quick visual of all the ongoing activity you have enabled through your efforts at FDL and The Next Hurrah (and something to read when the PCA pump is eventually working its magic).
HOPE is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I ’ve heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.
Emily Dickinson
Jane Hamsher @
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Jane,
My cousin encouraged me to feel how great her new set was. They did feel natural. I was very impressed.
Best regards.
Jane,
All the best. I met you in Meriden the day Ned beat the monsterman. Stay strong. You have more supporters wishing you well than you can begin to imagine.
I am looking forward to your recovery and coverage of the trial.
My best wishes to you, Jane. Feel the love coming to you from this amazing community you’ve helped to assemble, and ride it back to health.
Gassho.
Jane,
Best wishes for a speedy recovery and quick red eye flight to DC.
Others on this site have already offered the excellent advice of taking it easy and concentrating on your health. I second this adice, but since we all know you are going to ignore it (in the past you have cut short your exercise to resume blogging!), I offer another unsolicited recommendation:
Enlist the manpower of the hospital’s medical students, surgical residents and nurses to place hourly updates of FDL & The Next Hurrah posts/comments at your bedside. Each time you wake, you’ll have a quick visual representation of all the activity you have inspired, and you will have something to read when the PCA pump is working its magic.
kelley b. @ 453
Ditto.
be well……
looks like everyone is posting at the same time. Thought my first comment had been eaten by the ether. But happy to post twice for a good cause!
Just adding to the pile on. Sending love to you and wishes for all your strength to do what you love ASAP.
By now, it is hoped you feel the overwhelming (in a good way) support for/of your well-being.
Stay with us, Jane!
Ex lurker, first time post—
i wish you a speedy and full recovery.
Don’t let the fact that 460 comments beat me to it lessen my best wishes to you – my power was down this afternoon! You’ll do great at St. John’s. I’ve left a couple of parts of myself in there too and feel much better now.
May your troubles be as few and as far apart as my Grandmother’s teeth.
Oh, Jane.
Sending warm healing thoughts your way from the icy cold Midwest. I have the utmost confidence in you.
All our prayers, Jane.
I had no idea you had this problem. Best wishes that this surgery will be the last. They WILL take care of it this time — a positive attitude must help …..
Good luck … and thanks for this blog.
Jane -
You have changed the course of mighty rivers.
You have leapt tall buildings with a single bound.
You have bent steel with your bare hands.
Regardless of your recovery, you have been and will always be more powerful than a locomotive.
May you recover faster than a speeding bullet!
If there’s anything to the theory that people can send energy to one another, you should be barely able to stay in bed, but do it anyway – we need you too much for anything else.
Get well,
- Osprey
well, shit..
Kick Ass.
Heal Fast.
thoughts and prayers,
OldCoastie
My thoughts are prayers wre with you Jane.
You have my prayers for a speedy recovery, Jane.
Jane, best wishes.
Come back to the spectacle that is Plame soon. I always come to you for the best Plame rants, snark, ….
Looked in the archives and found your first reflections on the Plame case.
Prayers, blessings and hopes are with you. You are an inspiration and a model of courage. Plus, you simply rock.
love.
Hope there’s karma working in the universe, in which case all the good you do will come back to help you. Good luck!
I wish you the best possible outcome, Jane. Thank you so much for all that you do.
People will tell you to avoid stress, but one person’s stress is another person’s mission. Take care of you, though. I can hear your first words in the recovery room, “What happened at the trial?” Dean
Very best wishes.
Jane,
You are the best, a TIGER. Nothing will keep you down.
All my love,
Bill
Best wishes, Jane.
We who lurk and/or post here are all in your debt. You and your colleagues who run FDL are an oasis of sanity and support for so many of us in this weird world.
Please be lifted up by all of the love, prayers and support that are being offered here. I know that my life has been enriched by your good works. You have been and will be in my thoughts and prayers.
Jane,
Love, prayers, and a speedy recovery all wrapped in star-light-blue-icicles gathered from my Wisconsin rooftop to you…surge, Babe!
Jane, we lurk much more than we post. But both SeattleTammy and I wish you good health and much success, and even more, better health. I was born in St. Johns, and it’s karma seems to be very good. I pass it onto you.
I see cascades of healing water and light pouring over you, starting at your head and washing away all the cancer cells out and out and out….
Washing them away down the drain…
My thoughts and good wishes flowing your way. Thank you for all you do and have done to bring the Plame issue to light and other issues as well. I am a lurker here, But this compelled me to speak out.
Best of wishes to you and your continued health.
As someone who had a bilateral mastectomy and subsequent breast reconstruction 12 years ago, I can’t tell you the joy I felt a few years after diagnosis when I went to my 25-year high school reunion bra-less– and looking much more distinctive in the chest than I had during my salad days! Post surgery it is important to move those arms—stretch until it hurts, and then stretch some more. Don’t let anyone tell you that you won’t return to full flexibility in your upper arms and chest. With the will-power you unfailingly display on this blog, you will be back socking it to Bush et al in no time flat. Wishing you a quick recovery….
Jane, how sad to hear that news. As with all the other well wishers, I will be thinking about you. Sorry you have to go through this again, but you’re a fighter. That’s the good news. If we can lend a hand, if you need anything….we’re here. We are anxious for you to be healthy. That’s priority #1. As for the rest, you might get to Washington in time for some real fireworks.
Jane,
My thoughts and prayers are with you. This site and TNH really kept me from falling into a deep depressions during the beginning of the plame affair. All I knew is that Bush was evil and needed to be stopped. He’s every bit as evil and maybe more…and this site has helped me stay connected to reality.
Thank you for being here…and doing what you do.
Jane:
Well, just hang on, I guess it’s going to be a bumpy road. But, look on the bright side—you’ll still get there, and when you do, apparently you’ll be high and tight and perkier than ever! (Oooh. It is hard to imagine another context for using Hamsher and “perky” in the same sentence . . .)
So very sorry for the troubles, though. I’ll be thinking good thoughts for you. Also, I’m happy to assist Looseheadprop with anything legal on the Libby front too. We’re really all here to help. Please let us. Much love to you,
Otis
It’s times like this when I wish I was a believer so I could pray for you. Perhaps the respect and friendship I have for you will serve in prayer’s stead. Do everything the doctor tells you to do and return to us as soon as you can.
All best wishes to you and for your recovery.
Jane!!!
I have an intuition that you will be well.
The same intuition that gets me so many zero/one/fitz’s.
You have conquered so much, this is just one more.
Rooting for you, my dear. And OF COURSE you are in my prayers. You must have a couple thousand people praying for you. Add me.
((((((((((Jane)))))))))
positive thoughts, prayers, healing energy and much love are coming your way.
be well.
A close friend of mine went through this…and now it’s 30 years later and she’s going strong. That’s exactly what will happen for you. Nothing will prevent you from getting through this with flying colors.
I wish you a speedy, easy recovery. Please know how much you are appreciated and respected. A heartfelt thanks for everything you do, and a heartfelt hug for everything you are about to do.
We’ll miss you for the next couple of weeks. You’ll do great. You’re simply amazing.
Tons of love.
GottaLaff
Be well, and be good to yourself. And may the gods discover their error and redirect the poison in your system and channel it straight to Cheney’s nutsack.
Sorry about your news, and the challenges they might entail. Glad to know you’re in good hands, backed by lots of support. I am pulling for you.
De-lurking to say I look forward to the time when you are back spitting nails and calling bullshit on this blog. You’re my hero – a tough woman who never pulls her punches. Talk about fearless! It’s inspiring.
Good luck from another survivor.
Good luck, Jane! My best thoughts are with you!
Jane,
Our Tom Paine… A speedy recovery to you.
This nation will forever owe you a debt of gratitude for your work.
Get well soon… we need now as ever.
JPL @ 26
As a total, complete, and unrepentent workaholic, I must agree.
Take care of YOU so we have you for the battles of the future. I know that I would only accept such advice while being pinned to the ground, and barely then. But it is right.
We need YOU for the future. Do what you need to do, take time off, we’ve got the trial covered. Rest/surgery/meds whatever is needed, we can wait.
Much love,
————–egregious
Best wishes to carry you through a difficult time.
Hi Jane,
I don’t chime in often but almost never miss a post. To be honest at times you have kind of scared me. FFFFwhoosh you just pulled out the sword and cut right through the crap! But then we are filled with elation as the ignorance is slain. You are a warrior, dakini, slayer of darkness and ignorance. I have no doubt you have the strength and courage to face your surgery and recovery. To bad you can’t be at the trial until later but I bet you get there just as the choice parts begin. I’m thinking maybe just as Cheney gets sliced and diced by Fitz! Much love and light and thank you for who you be! k.o.t.f.
Thanks for telling us the truth, Jane, even though you didn’t have to. And thanks to all the many bloggers and others who have helped out. We are all pulling for you, Jane! Take care.
I don’t care if this comment gets EPU’s. I want to say my prayers are with you.
Be well, Jane. If good works and good thoughts can bring you through, you’ll be dancing back to DC to cover the trial. You make all of us proud every day.
Good God, Agnes. I always wonder why the cancer seems to hit the best people rather than the worst. We’ll miss you while you’re gone, Jane, and hear from you when you’re back. Take good care! Thanks for everything you have done for America.
Good luck.
You are in my heart and my prayers. We’re all pulling for you. Blessings to you and also to your family, friends, and doctors.
Dear Jane,
Sending healing wishes your way. Stay strong by knowing how many people you have touched with your fighting spirit. Firedoglake’s community has been shaped by your fierce honesty. Take as much time for yourself, knowing that your colleagues throughout the blogosphere wish you well, and that all the firepups are rooting for you.
Best wishes, hopes and prayers for you Jane.
My best friend Rita is going on ten years as a survivor. You will be too!!
502 comments as I read this, and many more, I suspect, by the time this comment gets posted. I hope you read ‘em all, Jane. It’s a testament to what you mean to us. You’ve got us at your back, girl.
I’m confident you’ll beat it again. Now if you need some quiet time in the Maryland countryside once you get here, give us a yell.
Mr. & Mrs. P.
My best wishes for your full recovery, Jane. Thank you for all the work you do, and the positive changes you continue to bring about in the world. You’re an inspiration. Take care of yourself.
Go forward triumphantly!
Jane:
You are fantastic! Thanks for all of your Plame coverage and being out in front on this story. Best wishes, and we’ll look forward to hearing from you in February. I’ll add you to my list of friends I’ll walk for in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer this year.
Rune of St Patrick for you also, Jane
At Tara today in this fateful hour
I place all Heaven with its power,
And the sun with its brightness,
And the snow with its whiteness,
And fire with all the strength it hath,
And lightning with its rapid wrath,
And the winds with their swiftness along their path,
And the sea with its deepness,
And the rocks with their steepness,
And the earth with its starkness
All these I place,
By God’s almighty help and grace,
Between myself and the powers of darkness.
You go girl.
Jane – we pups have your back. Period. Speedy return, from your rather extended family.
I am very sad now.
Jane—You will overcome, and know that we are with you all the way.
Hope that things go well and you are back fighting the good fight soon. And take some time for yourself…..you’ve earned it.
Much love from Winnipeg, Jane.
“She who must be obeyed” had a mastectomy and reconstruction last September. The result is astonishingly good, but the chemo is tough. You are in our prayers.
John
I am very angry now.
Disease SUCKS and it must be conquered.
On the plus side, the smartest kids I know at the magnet school here in VA are going into biomedicine to find cures.
I have one word for them:
Hurry.
Add mine to the mega-chorus of voices of those who will be holding the very bestest of thoughts for you. Hope you’re back from hammerlocking doctors to hammerlocking corrupt politicos in short order!
There is nothing but the work that you love that will make you feel whole again. I write as one who has been through this. Bless you for your dedication. It will be your salvation and your legacy.
There’s a great bakery around the corner, so the pretzel rolls are incredible. I think Ben & Jerry’s is next…Any flavor suggestions?
I also have a Buffy marathon planned. Nothing like a little season II.
Now for a trivia question. (I have no life) In season III, What song lured the final Hell hound back to the Prom?
Damn right you will fly again Jane! First to DC to see Scooter squirm. Then come on back to Connecticut for the hospitality of Real Dems! Be well, soon!
John at 525 — You have to go with NY Super Fudge Chunk for the sheer chocolately goodness, don’t you? And this is how pathetic I am: “Celebration” by Kool and the Gang.
Please give Jane a big hug from me, won’t you?
Strength to you Jane.
Jane,
I am another delurker, wishing you all the best. I so admire your spirit and gumption. I have been coming to this site for a long time and really appreciate all that I have learned here from you and all the rest of the gang. Get well soon!
Sending strength and gratitude to Jane, all her caretakers (starting with John A), and her back-up bloggers.
From a regular lurker I am sending you lots of love and good vibes….I know you will beat this!
John Amato @ 525
Perhaps they make a flavor called Extra Chunky Snark’ or something?
Jane,
Don’t know if you’ll make it down to comment #532, But I’ll send along my best wishes as well. I’m a 6-year DCIS survivor and I’m pulling for you.
You are the best.
You will beat this and there is a rockingchair in your future.
Sending my love.
Thanks for all the great work you have done and for the plans you have made while you take care of yourself. get well soon. we need you enormously! Your clear legal explanations of complicated material has helped us all understand the arcane structure of the applicable law.
Jane,
Sending good thoughts your way for a speedy & full recovery. It sounds like you are in good hands. Keep positive & you’ll be on that flight to D.C. before you know it!
Morague