Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., participates in a House Oversight and Accountability Committee listening to on March 29. On Thursday, he introduced a preliminary prognosis that his cancer is in remission after therapies.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin, D-Md., participates in a House Oversight and Accountability Committee listening to on March 29. On Thursday, he introduced a preliminary prognosis that his cancer is in remission after therapies.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin, a prominent lawmaker representing D.C. suburbs in Maryland, introduced that his cancer is in remission after he accomplished chemotherapy. The Democrat stated in December that he had been identified with lymphoma.
In a letter Thursday addressed “Dear America” on his web site, the 60-year-old fourth-term congressman stated that after receiving “a preliminary diagnosis of being ‘in remission’ from diffuse large B-cell lymphoma with a 90% prognosis of no relapse, I am overwhelmed with gratitude and love.”
Raskin shared a video on social media of him ringing a bell to have fun.
Tuesday I thanked nurses, medical doctors & pharmacists at @MedStarGUH who serve with splendid kindness—and saved my life over 5 months. I completed 6 rounds of 5-day chemo periods—which they organized so I didn’t need to miss votes or hearings—and I rang the bell! A brand new chapter begins. pic.twitter.com/lAtpGyBG5b
— Jamie Raskin (@jamie_raskin) April 27, 2023
He stated “many thousands” of individuals had reached out to him in the previous 5 months “with expressions of prayer, best wishes, concern, solidarity, sympathy and moral encouragement.”
He stated he had obtained presents, together with bandanas, baseball caps, do-it-yourself scarves, vegan matzoh ball soup, poems and letters. E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt, recognized for carrying bandanas himself, was amongst those that sent Raskin one.
Raskin stated that he nonetheless was exhausted as he recovered from the ultimate spherical of chemotherapy, however that he would problem a correct thanks quickly.