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Ezlivin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Wed Oct-05-11 08:30 PM
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18. Christopher Reeve didn't make it past 52
His medical care was costing $400,000 a year. The guy gave it his all; he undertook experimental treatments to shoot for a breakthrough.

I distinctly recall him saying he'd be out of his wheelchair "in ten years."

In ten years he was dead.

But me and millions of other paralyzed people rooted like crazy for our Superman, even though the majority of us could never afford medical therapy like that.

RIP Steve Jobs.
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  -Boy, you know Jobs had the best medical care money could buy and it still didn't get him past 56 NNN0LHI  Oct-05-11 07:32 PM   #0 
  - let's be sure we all try to fulfill our potential, eh?  KittyWampus   Oct-05-11 07:34 PM   #1 
  - Pancreatic cancer is tough to beat  justiceischeap   Oct-05-11 07:35 PM   #2 
  - so right  maddezmom   Oct-05-11 07:35 PM   #3 
  - With a cancer like he had, he was very lucky to live the length of time he did.  teddy51   Oct-05-11 07:35 PM   #4 
  - Yes, it probably was. :^( I know it was when my MIL passed.  GreenPartyVoter   Oct-05-11 07:37 PM   #6 
  - Pancreatic cancer took my father  DFW   Oct-06-11 06:07 AM   #28 
  - There are some things money can't buy.  TheCowsCameHome   Oct-05-11 07:36 PM   #5 
  - Past.  aquart   Oct-05-11 07:38 PM   #7 
  - Thank you. I knew something wasn't right there. Just couldn't put my finder on it  NNN0LHI   Oct-05-11 07:41 PM   #10 
  - Some things wikll kill you  Mz Pip   Oct-05-11 07:39 PM   #8 
  - With that kind of cancer, I don't think that I would have wanted his money  teddy51   Oct-05-11 07:49 PM   #13 
  - i think he did live longer than most people who get pancreatic cancer  JI7   Oct-05-11 07:39 PM   #9 
  - His was a pretty rare (1% of cases) slow-growing kind.  Bake   Oct-05-11 07:44 PM   #11 
  - My dad lasted 5-6 months after being diagnosed. He died 4 months ago.  Dawgs   Oct-05-11 08:20 PM   #16 
     - my mom lasted three months  grasswire   Oct-05-11 08:25 PM   #17 
        - My grandmother lasted nine weeks, and that was with a round of chemotherapy to try and  iris27   Oct-05-11 11:49 PM   #22 
  - A sobering thought indeed.  dkf   Oct-05-11 07:45 PM   #12 
  - He grew up less than a mile away from us in Silicon Valley.  EFerrari   Oct-05-11 07:51 PM   #14 
  - There's a reason he received his liver transplant in Memphis when he lived in California.  Poll_Blind   Oct-05-11 08:01 PM   #15 
  - Same reason I will be multiple-listed when I neec a kidney tx - I have a very rare blood type  REP   Oct-06-11 03:54 AM   #25 
  - Christopher Reeve didn't make it past 52  Ezlivin   Oct-05-11 08:30 PM   #18 
  - It is precious, and finite. As Warren Zevon said, "Enjoy every sandwich."  nolabear   Oct-05-11 08:32 PM   #19 
  - so much for an Apple a day nt  msongs   Oct-05-11 08:42 PM   #20 
  - Ruth Ginsberg had it  Mz Pip   Oct-05-11 10:41 PM   #21 
  - But that medical care got him to 56  Tom Ripley   Oct-05-11 11:56 PM   #23 
  - I thought of this too Don.  JNelson6563   Oct-06-11 01:11 AM   #24 
  - Life is a crap shoot. Sometimes people who drink like a fish live to be 90, others die before their  Major Hogwash   Oct-06-11 04:28 AM   #26 
  - Nobody gets out alive.  SmileyRose   Oct-06-11 05:57 AM   #27 
 

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