An emotional Rush Limbaugh opened his final radio broadcast of 2020 by thanking his listeners and supporters as he continues to battle a terminal cancer diagnosis.
“My point in all of this today is gratitude,” he said. “My point in all of this is to say thanks and tell everybody involved how much I love you from the bottom of a sizable and growing and still-beating heart.”
Limbaugh singled out his wife Kathryn and other family members for supporting him throughout his career and his health struggle. The 69-year-old learned he had Stage IV lung cancer in January, and was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Trump at the State of the Union address in February.
He added the decency of those around him had confirmed his prior beliefs about people’s innate goodness.
“I wasn’t expected to be alive today,” he said. “I wasn’t expected to make it to October, and then to November, and then to December. And yet, here I am, and today, got some problems, but I’m feeling pretty good today.”
Limbaugh said he was originally stunned by his diagnosis and added it had been as hard on those in his orbit as it was on him personally.
“I can’t be self-absorbed about it, when that is the tendency when you are told that you’ve got a due date,” he said, choking up. “You have an expiration date. A lot of people never get told that, so they don’t face life this way.”…
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