Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee has Pancreatic Cancer
Jackson Lee has represented Houston in the House since 1995.
Texas Democratic Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee announced she has pancreatic cancer.
Jackson Lee represents the 18th Congressional District, which is in Houston.
“My doctors have confirmed my diagnosis of pancreatic cancer,” Jackson wrote. “I’m currently undergoing treatment to battle this disease that impacts tens of thousands of Americans every year.”
The American Cancer Society predicts doctors will diagnose about 66,440 people with pancreatic cancer. It is a rare cancer but one of the deadliest with the lowest survival rates.
“I am confident that my doctors have developed the best possible plan to target my specific disease,” Jackson Lee continued. “The road ahead will not be easy, but I stand in faith that God will strengthen me.”
Jackson Lee has represented Houston in the House since 1995:
To the constituents of the 18th Congressional District: Serving as your representative in Congress for 30 years is one of my greatest honors. Your hopes and aspirations inspire my efforts on behalf of our community every day. As I pursue my treatments, it is likely that I will be occasionally absent from Congress, but rest assured my office will continue to deliver the vital constituent services that you deserve and expect.
I am committed to working with our Congressional Leadership including Leader Hakeem Jeffries and the Speaker of House to serve this nation and be present for votes on legislation that is critical for the prosperity and security of the American people. By God’s grace, I will be back at full strength soon.
Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee issued the Following Statement: pic.twitter.com/1WnKAN2CQs
— Sheila Jackson Lee (@JacksonLeeTX18) June 3, 2024
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I wouldn’t wish this on my worst enemy.
That said, I’m glad it didn’t happen to someone anywhere close to being my best friend.
Your first paragraph was my first thought as well. My second was, “She’s not my worst enemy.”
Dark humor aside, inoperable pancreatic cancer is what took my mother-in-law. Bad way to go.
She also announcer her form of pancreatic cancer is just gas.
Well, I might not wish it, but I think it is karma. Too often it is good people, better her than them.
I am not a fan, but I wish her a speedy recovery. Pancreatic Cancer, however, is a bad disease.
godspeed on recovery
then realllllllyyy think about what leftist polices do and how they destroy the family unity
There is basically no ‘recovery’ from this type of cancer. It has about the worst survival rate of any type of cancer.
My friends from teens on were much older than I, so I had to deal with their passing at a much higher rate than normal. 4 of them died from pancreatic cancer. They all died within 4 months, there were no cures.
That’s rough. I lost both of my parents to lung cancer, and both were gone within six weeks of diagnosis. With the benefit of time and going through the grieving process, I think it was best that they went quickly that way.
I’ve known two people who lasted longer than that with it; one just recently who lived almost a year after diagnosis, and one 35 years ago who lived about 15 months.
yeah its horrible they cant diagnose it until its too late
God in His mercy spared my husband the slow awful death from pancreatic cancer. As Scripture warns us, His way was not my way. Hubs died of a stroke just 12 days after the cancer diagnosis. I’d have preferred an out and out miracle.
They can try a Whipple/Pancreaticoduodenectomy but only if the cancer hasn’t spread. They essentially remove a good chunk of the digestive system and replumb what’s left. It has a chance of curing you if it doesn’t kill you first. Death and post-op complication are a bit high.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pancreaticoduodenectomy#Morbidity_and_mortality
Yes, I am acquainted with someone who had that surgery and is doing well years post.
Amazing.
guess I am not as “evolved” as others.
I hope it tears through her like wildfire causing a lot of screaming pain and I hope she actually dies during a press conference that is being recorded.
I’m told I have issues.
I believe God has a handle on how to deal out their portion to the wicked.
The fundamental problem we’re dealing with is, she’s vicious and rude. She has had influence, and used it for evil. Perhaps there is room for repentance in her life. Stranger things have happened.
I had cancer and pancreatic cancer is one of the most aggressive
I know 2 people who died of it. Good people. Both just retired and both got diagnosed almost immediately. One was my vet for 30 years
God preaches mercy, and I will pray for her
Pray for a quick death, better for her and everyone else.
Mine was Merkel Cell. Still getting scans now and then to see if it’s back.
Hope it’s gone for good.
Glioblastoma brain tumors are right up there with pancreatic cancer. You can remove every bit you can see, do radiation/chemo, but if one cell survives, and they do, it comes back even more aggressive. Survival after 5 years is essentially zero. My Beloved fought the good fight for 10 months.
I don’t care for Ms Lee’s politics but I don’t wish any type of cancer on her.
No one deserves this but Houston will vote her back in office even after she assumes room temp.
She’ll sound a lot smarter lying on a cold slab than she ever has before.
She will continue voting for years.
The bad news is Houston voters have re-elected her to congress for 30 years.
Wonder if the jab triggered it.
What we’re finding out about the jab’s long term adverse events is still unfolding, however the data on myocarditis and pericarditis in younger patients is alarming. We’re seeing an uptick in immune problems in older Americans who have had the mRNA vaccines, which accounts for the vast majority of the vaccines administered (Moderna and Pfizer in the USA).
We already know we’re seeing more and more cases of cancer, and whether this is due to better detection (there are truly better diagnostics and awareness now), the WuFlu virus itself, the mRNA vaccines OR a combination of those factors remains up in the air. My personal, untested opinion is that it’s a combination of the latter two, particularly with the unknowns about the mRNA mechanism of action combined with patients who were likely genetically predisposed to cancer—with the WuFlu virus activating some latent genetic factors that accelerated the development of certain cancers. Overall, I don’t rate the mRNA vaccines above more than equivocal as far as efficacy—meaning they didn’t make much of a difference, at least from what I observed in my infectious diseases practice. Natural immunity seemed to work much better and provide more durable responses. Boosters from the mRNA vaccines seemed useless and nothing but a bribe to their manufacturers by the government.
While I agree with you on the shot and it’s side effects I am more inclined towards the increase in cancer rates being the complete lack of diagnosis during the COVID nonsense. At least at this point
Increased aggressiveness has been noted in existing cancer patients. Yes, many had clinically evident cancers that were delayed in diagnosis and treatment. Patients now showing up could have been pre-clinical status during the lock down.
it will be interesting to see the cancer rate between unvax and vax. Additional, if cancer have come back in those in remission (probably low to none in non vax group pool because they were considered high risk).
Dr Cole warned autoimmunity issues with the vax. It is interesting that those that got the vax in my circles seem to have gotten covid multiple times where I only got it once.
“Get well soon.”
Bless her little heart.
Horrible disease. Have watched people I love die from it.
I’d prefer she’d die from something she voted for.
Bringing into question the existence of a Just God.
Well, let’s pretend that Elizabeth Warren got in, instead!
At least, as a congresswoman, she will get the very finest health care that is at all possible. Not like the poor devils standing in line for their ObamaCare.
Or what the proles were denied due to the nonsense pandemic response that Lee wholeheartedly supported. She won’t have to die alone in the hospital like my wife’s aunt did in Jan 2021. I loathe these people.
You’re referring to the hoards just south of our border w/ Mexico?
No. No I’m not.
Well, they’ll be getting that ObamaCare too, from what I’m hearing lately
Somehow they will find a way to make this an issue. You are right… it can’t be blamed on access nor quality of care in her case. How she and the Dems handle this will be the issue.
Also she’ll have extra help at work and won’t have to worry about her pay check or taking time off for treatment. Maybe she’ll have time to reflect on all of the people that her policies didn’t help.
My condolences to the cancer.
That … is cold.
I wish I had thought of it.
There is no truth to the rumor that Musk tweeted:
“Thankfully, you lose your seat very soon. Your pancreas is too small.”
A bad ending for a rotten person. I wonder if she caught it on Mars while checking out our Flag?
She wants her ashes scattered off the coast of Guam, which means hiring an equal number of people to stand on the other coast during the ceremony.
I pray for a slow and painful death. Real slow. Grass growing slow.
Why?
Because there is evidence that someone who dies slowly and in pain has plenty of time to think about their life, what they have accomplished, and what they have failed to accomplish.
This is her time to get right with God, or not. Her choice.
I would never wish it on anyone. But now that she has it, she should use it for the betterment of herself and others.
But she won’t. She’s a vicious Democrat.
So please. Take your time.
I want to die at ease and in peace. Not like my screaming passengers.
People will make a fuss over the teeniest bump over a cliff.
Pancreatic Cancer has Sheila Jackson Lee.
Pancreatic cancer is afraid of Chuck Norris.
My Virginia Congressional Representative, Jennifer Wexton, is not seeking re-election after being diagnosed with Progressive Supranuclear Palsy. Nasty disease— it’s what Dudley Moore had. I disliked her but I wouldn’t wish her illness on friend or foe. Similarly I must pray for Representative Jackson given her diagnosis.
I have a friend from work who underwent a Whipple procedure for pancreatic cancer in 2013. He was told that his prognosis for survival at 10 years was 10%. He remains disease free, thank God.
Problem with the Whipple/Pancreaticoduodenectomy is that the survival odds of the surgery itself are damn low. You have to take out a good chunk of the digestive system and replumb what’s left.
I can certainly have sympathy for someone whose belief system does not agree with mine. But in this case? Lee is an absolutely revolting human being.
This disease for her is too kind.
Well as usual I have nothing nice to say about her so I’ll say nothing. Just know that if I were to say something it would be the worst most disagreeable thing possible. But since I know that Communists don’t actually register as human whatever.
That being said I hope she enjoys hell.
I lost a high school friend (who was a physician), a co-worker, another high school associate with whom I played sports, and most recently a good golfing buddy to this awful disease. I also have a close friend who has esophageal cancer (also inoperable and incurable). I can’t say anything unchristian about Ms Lee because of who raised me, but I certainly won’t say anything good either.
I wish and pray for her to have a speedy recovery and if not then I wish and pray she suffers as little as possible and finds peace.
I lost my step mom to this almost thee decades ago. Less than a month after being diagnosed and about 10 weeks after she started not feeling well.
I’m surprised she didn’t announce a stand down for election, while there is time to replace her.
Isn’t she already off of the public dole?
If you mean out of Congress, then no, she isn’t. Hence her promise to her constituents that her office would still serve them, and she’d do her best to make it to important votes.
Some things I’ve learned about profound illness:
— Disease is chaos. Even the stuff we “understand” arrives bearing events like water balloons of chaos dropped onto the order we thought we had.
— What matters is how you respond. Short time or long time, you have to live with yourself, knowing your response as ill one, or family, or healer, or friend, or just someone around. You know as you’re doing it, and after.
— Worse, doing is like practice: you become what you do. Worse, still, you have become what you practiced: before the illness. That’s what you have to work with.
I learned two things on point from my father, who was a damaged person for as long as I knew him, “passing” from mesothelioma.
— When disease comes, you deal with the hard things with the you you’ve made by dealing with the easier things along the way. He was stuck, being desperate, terrified, un-trusting, manipulative, and dishonest, right through the last thing he, himself did, even in extremis. (There’s a strain of this theme in M. Scott Peck’s The People of The Lie. Eventually, the lie consumes you — you aren’t who you were, and further still from who you might have been.)
— However much they hurt you, however horrible what they’ve done, if you let the anger capture you, they’ve won again; if you let them make you hit back when they’re down, they’ve won yet again. You do the right thing, even knowing they won’t, even in extremis.
I curse the lesson, and bless the knowledge.
I suspect Rep Jackson Lee is going to have a rough time, living through her rough time. Even so, not an inch’s accommodation on her policies and politics. No extortion launched from her dire straights appeased. Even so, the right thing is to stand beside her, present and helpful, on this part of her trip. If nothing more, see that there’s someone — maybe you — to quietly take out the trash, so at least that’s not in the way.
people with these traits are narcissists and even when times get tough/tougher they wouldnt even know how to back off
take care