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<\/p>\nRUSH: Ladies and gentlemen, this… This day has been one of the most difficult days in recent memory for me because I\u2019ve known this moment was coming in the program today. Now, I\u2019m sure that you all know by now, I really don\u2019t like talking about myself, and I don\u2019t like making things about me other than in the usual satirical, parodic, joking way.<\/p>\n
I like this program to be about you and the things that matter to all of us. The one thing that I know that has happened over the 31-plus years of this program is that there has been an incredible bond that has developed between all of you and me. Now, this program\u2019s 31 years old, and in that 31 years, there are people — you hear them call all the time — who have been listening the whole time. They\u2019ve been listening 30 years or 25 years.<\/p>\n
I just had somebody say they\u2019ve been here three years. But, whatever, it is a family-type relationship to me, and I\u2019ve mentioned to you that this program and this job is what has provided me the greatest satisfaction and happiness that I\u2019ve ever experienced, more than I ever thought that I would experience. So I have to tell you something today that I wish I didn\u2019t have to tell you.<\/p>\n
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It\u2019s a struggle for me because I had to inform my staff earlier today. I can\u2019t escape… Even though people are telling me it\u2019s not the way to look at it, I can\u2019t help but feel that I\u2019m letting everybody down with this. But the upshot is that I have been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, diagnosis confirmed by two medical institutions back on January 20th. I first realized something was wrong on my birthday weekend, January 12th.<\/p>\n
I wish I didn\u2019t have to tell you this, and I thought about not telling anybody. I thought about trying to do this without anybody knowing, \u2019cause I don\u2019t like making things about me. But there are going to be days that I\u2019m not gonna be able to be here because I\u2019m undergoing treatment or I\u2019m reacting to treatment, and I know that that would inspire all kinds of curiosity with people wondering what\u2019s going on.<\/p>\n
And the worst thing that can happen is when there is something going on and you try to hide it and cover it up. It\u2019s eventually gonna leak, and then people are gonna say, “Why didn\u2019t you just say it? Why\u2019d you try to fool everybody? ” It\u2019s not that I want to fool anybody. It\u2019s just that I don\u2019t want to burden anybody with it, and I haven\u2019t wanted to. But it is what it is. You know me; I\u2019m the mayor of Realville.<\/p>\n
So this has happened, and my intention is to come here every day I can and to do this program as normally and as competently and as expertly as I do each and every day, because that is the source of my greatest satisfaction professionally, personally. I\u2019ve had so much support from family and friends during this that it\u2019s just been tremendous. I told the staff today that I have a deeply personal relationship with God that I do not proselytize about.<\/p>\n
But I do, and I have been working that relationship (chuckles) tremendously, which I do regularly anyway, but I\u2019ve been focused on it intensely for the past couple of weeks. I know there are many of you in this audience who have experienced this, who are going through it yourselves at the same time. I am, at the moment, experiencing zero symptoms other than… Look, I don\u2019t want to get too detailed in this.<\/p>\n
What led to shortness of breath that I thought might have been asthma or — you know, I\u2019m 69 — it could have been my heart. My heart\u2019s in great shape, ticking away fine, squeezing and pumping great. It was not that. It was a pulmonary problem involving malignancy. So I\u2019m gonna be gone the next couple days as we figure out the treatment course of action and have further testing done. But, as I said, I\u2019m gonna be here as often as I can.<\/p>\n
And, as is the case with everybody who finds themselves in this circumstance, you just want to push ahead and try to keep everything as normal as you can, which is something that I\u2019m going to try to do. But I felt that I had to tell you because that\u2019s the kind of relationship I feel like I have with those of you in this audience. I say it every Christmas, which is when I feel more thankful than at Thanksgiving.<\/p>\n
And I feel thankful at Thanksgiving, but Christmas it really gets to me. But over the years, a lot of people have been very nice telling me how much this program has meant to them. But whatever that is, it pales in comparison to what you all have meant to me. And I can\u2019t describe this. But I know you\u2019re there every day. I can see you. It\u2019s strange how, but I know you\u2019re there.<\/p>\n
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I know you\u2019re there in great numbers, and I know that you understand everything I say. The rest of the world may not when they hear it expressed a different way, but I know that you do. You\u2019ve been one of the greatest sources of confidence that I\u2019ve had in my life. So, I hope I will be talking about this as little as necessary in the coming days.<\/p>\n
But we\u2019ve got a great bunch of doctors, a great team assembled. We\u2019re at full-speed ahead on this, and it\u2019s just now a matter of implementing what we are gonna be told later this week. So, I\u2019ll be back here. I hope I\u2019ll be back Thursday. If not, it will be as soon as I can — and know that every day I\u2019m not here, I\u2019ll be thinking about you and missing you. Thank you very much.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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