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 most cancers is in remission after remedies.
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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 most cancers is in remission after remedies.
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Rep. Jamie Raskin, a distinguished lawmaker representing D.C. suburbs in Maryland, introduced that his most cancers 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 prognosis of being ‘in remission’ from diffuse giant B-cell lymphoma with a 90% prognosis of no relapse, I’m 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 should 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 1000’s” of individuals had reached out to him prior to now 5 months “with expressions of prayer, greatest needs, concern, solidarity, sympathy and ethical encouragement.”
He stated he had acquired items, together with bandanas, baseball caps, selfmade scarves, vegan matzoh ball soup, poems and letters. E Street Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt, recognized for carrying bandanas himself, was amongst those that despatched Raskin one.
Raskin stated that he nonetheless was exhausted as he recovered from the ultimate spherical of chemotherapy, however that he would difficulty a correct thanks quickly.