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Showing Original Post only (View all)Reminder: Mazie Hirono has Stage 4 kidney cancer while fighting for us. [View all]
She was diagnosed in May of 2017. John McCain was not the only one with Stage 4 cancer to vote No on the GOP attempt to repeal Obamacare last year. As this graphic from last year so succinctly put it:
She is currently getting immunotherapy treatment for it instead of chemo, so her hair is not falling out and she appears to be tolerating it well. http://amp.timeinc.net/time/5280460/mazie-hirono-senate-donald-trump She has not let her Stage 4 cancer stop her from fighting for us.
So when you're feeling down, think you can't keep up the fight, think of Mazie. If she can drag herself out of bed to fight, so can we!
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Reminder: Mazie Hirono has Stage 4 kidney cancer while fighting for us. [View all]
SunSeeker
Oct 2018
OP
A lot of people don't know. Mazie has not gotten the media recognition she should.
SunSeeker
Oct 2018
#3
I was only thinking yesterday that she's looking fantastic for someone heading to 71 next month.
OnDoutside
Oct 2018
#6
I did know this, and she is definitely one of my sheroes. hard to give up when you look
niyad
Oct 2018
#19
Yes, I remember too. She had just had surgery to remove a rib her kidney cancer had spread to.
SunSeeker
Oct 2018
#53
Didn't know about this. She is precious. Liked and admired her from long ago.
Judi Lynn
Oct 2018
#58