No Regrets for Novak
OK. I’ve been laying off any Bob Novak jokes since a brief aside before he announced that he had a brain tumor. I just can’t bring myself to beat up on anyone who’s undergoing cancer treatment.
In a piece entitled “My brain tumor brings out the best in people” posted on the Chicago Sun-Times’ Web site, Novak details his life since his diagnosis, including losing his way to his longtime office and having seizures.
“I have lost not only left peripheral vision but nearly all my left vision, probably permanently,” Novak wrote.
…In Saturday’s column, Novak wrote that he underwent a four-hour surgery Aug. 15 at Duke University Medical Center during which a 3-by-1 1/2-inch tumor was removed. Dr. Allan H. Friedman, the chief of neurosurgery at the hospital who operated on Sen. Edward M. Kennedy’s brain tumor this summer, performed the surgery.
That’s doubly true when it looks like he’s fighting a losing battle. I draw the line at — no, well before — mocking or celebrating anyone’s illness and/or death.
But I gotta admit, stuff like this makes it awfuly hard.
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