Sen Byrd is making me cry too...n/t

[Subdivisions]

[BlooInBloo]

1. That was really sad.

[Subdivisions]

3. He got to me. n/t

[butterfly77]

30. Where can I find this..

[Blue Diadem]

38. I think this is the right link:

hope it works


edited: darn it, try this one:
http://www.cnn.com/video/?iref=videoglobal

select video from sidebar

[Epiphany4z]

2. me to

dam it I just got done crying then they put Sen Byrd on..and I'm all water works again

[BuyingThyme]

4. What Senator Byrd said.

[EFerrari]

5. Can you say more? Do I need to cry about something else, too

or is it just the same thing?

[Subdivisions]

6. Sen Byrd was expressing a personal message

to Teddy saying: "Ted. Ted. My dear friend, I miss you." He was sobbing.

[EFerrari]

9. Omg. I wonder if there's more they're not saying.

:grouphug:

[Warpy]

17. No. They've told us what they know.

What remains now is discussing his options and whether he wants to stay in the Senate or spend his remaining good time (which he has, by the way, with his seizures controlled) with his family and friends.

[EFerrari]

24. Has anyone said the word "inoperable" that you know of?

I don't know, Warpy, these people aren't acting as if there is a medical course that will abate the situation. Maybe my ears are just negative today.

[Individualist]

25. No one has specifically said inoperable

but I believe it was John Kerry who said he'd been talking with Ted and that treatment options were radiation and chemotherapy. (If I'm wrong about any of this, someone please correct me.)

[Warpy]

27. Gliomas cover a wide variety of malignancies

whose names I won't show off knowing. They are rarely encapsulated, meaning they might be debulked, but can rarely be removed entirely without damaging a lot of brain structures. In Kennedy's case, the tumor is in his left parietal lobe, meaning the area of his brain that covers movement on his right side.

Radiation and chemo can shrink the tumor and buy him some good time. In addition, there are some interesting things in the pipeline that he would have access to at MGH, one of the country's main research centers.

It's a grim diagnosis, but he aint dead yet. With his seizures controlled, he's already got some good time left. He's having a bad hair day, though, after the biopsy.

Once the shock is over, we'll all be able to celebrate what he's done and the life he has left, which will probably be considerable.

[EFerrari]

29. I'm so glad he's there, too.

I was trying to remember my one course on neurobiology, where perietal was and what was located there. Thanks for the info.

[NJSecularist]

28. Is there any video of this?

That sounds depressing. :cry: :cry:

[BuyingThyme]

32. CNN & CNN Headline are running it on a very short loop.

"Ted. My dear friend. I love you. And I miss you."

[Iris]

42. Response to #9 - With all due respect to Senator Byrd,

he is an old man. When you are that age, losing friends might be a common part of life, but it is still acutely painful and probably scary. I think this sort of reaction would be normal for someone his age, regardless of the prognosis of his friend.


(somehow, I posted this under the wrong message).

[BlooInBloo]

7. Byrd speaking (more like sobbing) in the Senate - about losing Ted.

[EFerrari]

10. Thank you, Bloo.

:(

[BlooInBloo]

12. :(

[BuyingThyme]

8. He was just crying on the floor.

Like the rest of us.

[EFerrari]

13. Was it on CSPAN or where?

:hug:

[BuyingThyme]

15. CNN broke in for a moment.

It was quite a reality check.

[Jennifer C]

21. CNN, I think

[Subdivisions]

14. You know what I've noticed. I'm a grown man who is not

prone to tears. I think all the stress and sadness and frustration of the past 8 years pours fourth when such a devastating blow is delivered as was this news of Teddy's diagnosis.

[EFerrari]

16. It never occurred to me that I would have to live in BushWorld

without Teddy. It's irrational because I'm so much younger than he is, but, there it is.

[BuyingThyme]

22. Yes, it goes so far beyond Ted.

Many of us seem to be taking inventory in one way or another.

[babylonsister]

11. Now talking about getting the troops home from this 'terrible, terrible,

awful war."

I hadn't seen Senator Byrd in awhile; I know he was ill, but he seems frailer than ever.

[epw4edwards08]

19. Tearss

Senator Byrd, my gosh. At least one of them could have held him while he sobbed, sheesh!

[juajen]

33. He has not been the same since his beloved wife died.

This is obviously too much for him this year. I hope he does ok. Am I prejudiced or do dems just have more distinguished leaders, male and female than pugs.

[mmonk]

35. Not prejudiced. Perfect vision, awareness, and analysis.

Ours are most definitely more distinguished.

[babylonsister]

36. No, I agree with you. I was sitting here

wondering if there IS a rethug who would have the same impact in this country that Kennedy has had since his bad news was announced today. I can't think of one. And had it been Byrd, the same or similar outpouring would have happened, I think.

[graycem]

37. Ours have a heart

and aren't afraid to use it. That's the difference.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

18. Nancy Pelosi looked like she'd been crying

when she spoke a few moments ago.

[BlooInBloo]

20. Looks like history is licking it's thumb, getting ready to turn the page. Sigh.

[TexasLady]

23. This is breaking my heart.

:cry:

[bdamomma]

26. so sad I hope those Doctors aggressively treat Teddy.

[UnSantorum]

31. Not Afraid to Cry

Young boys and old men are not afraid of a few tears. It's the rest of us in the middle who are too uptight to show emotion. Go Bobby Byrd!

[bicentennial_baby]

34. OMG...I just saw it....That was heartbreaking

:cry:

[Blue Diadem]

39. I just saw it.

Absolutely heart breaking and heart felt.

Gosh, I wish I could give Sen. Byrd a hug.

[Pastiche423]

40. That was so difficult to watch

The Senator Robert C. Byrd, openly sobbing for his friend, the Lion of the Senate, Ted Kennedy.

It was heartbreaking.

:cry: :cry: :cry:

[Raine]

41. Me too...

:cry: