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Rep. Jamie Raskin, a outstanding lawmaker representing D.C. suburbs in Maryland, introduced that his most cancers is in remission after he finished chemotherapy. The Democrat stated in December that he have been identified with lymphoma.
In a letter Thursday addressed “Expensive The united states” on his web site, the 60-year-old fourth-term congressman stated that when receiving “a initial analysis of being ‘in remission’ from diffuse massive B-cell lymphoma with a 90% diagnosis of no relapse, I’m beaten with gratitude and love.”
Raskin shared a video on social media of him ringing a bell to rejoice.
Tuesday I thanked nurses, docs & pharmacists at @MedStarGUH who serve with supreme kindness—and stored my existence over 5 months. I ended 6 rounds of 5-day chemo classes—which they arranged so I didn’t need to omit votes or hearings—and I rang the bell! A brand new bankruptcy starts. %.twitter.com/lAtpGyBG5b
— Jamie Raskin (@jamie_raskin) April 27, 2023
He stated “many hundreds” of folks had reached out to him previously 5 months “with expressions of prayer, perfect needs, fear, team spirit, sympathy and ethical encouragement.”
He stated he had won items, together with bandanas, baseball caps, home made scarves, vegan matzoh ball soup, poems and letters. E Side road Band guitarist Steven Van Zandt, recognized for dressed in bandanas himself, was once amongst those that despatched Raskin one.
Raskin stated that he nonetheless was once exhausted as he recovered from the general spherical of chemotherapy, however that he would factor a correct thanks quickly.