It has taken me almost 5 hours for it to sink in to a deeper level, but probably that was denial. This afternoon at around 2:50pm Eastern, Rush Limbaugh began leading up to the fact that he was going to make a personal announcement. My first thought, as someone who has listened to him almost every day for 27 years, was, oh, no, don't you dare retire; you've been saying in recent months that you'd decided you'd never retire, which pleased me greatly. So don't you dare tell us you're not going to be around.
And then I ended up wishing that that was all he had been going to share, because Rush informed his audience that he was recently diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, warning us that, while he's going to do what he can to get on top of it, he'll be gone until Thursday, or maybe later, and may not be able to talk on the radio for long periods of time.
Ah, the selfishness of my only being able to focus on how losing him would affect me! Life is short for us all, and certainly most of you who read this will have had to deal with something terrible in either your life or the lives of those you love, but right now I'm hit hard by this news. It was listening to Rush Limbaugh that greatly helped shepherd me out of my previous knee-jerk liberalism, and afternoons with him on in the background of whatever I do on any given day has been like having a friend wherever I go -- a very brilliant as well as funny friend. I'm certain he is blanketed by God's love, as well as by the knowledge that, with an audience of 7 million at any given moment during the week (probably 6.9 million of whom are fans), he is beloved to so many.
But, despite some slight hesitance about saying 'out loud' that someone I've never met means that much to me, I just wanted to let any of you who are listening know that I'm sad today.
And then I ended up wishing that that was all he had been going to share, because Rush informed his audience that he was recently diagnosed with advanced lung cancer, warning us that, while he's going to do what he can to get on top of it, he'll be gone until Thursday, or maybe later, and may not be able to talk on the radio for long periods of time.
Ah, the selfishness of my only being able to focus on how losing him would affect me! Life is short for us all, and certainly most of you who read this will have had to deal with something terrible in either your life or the lives of those you love, but right now I'm hit hard by this news. It was listening to Rush Limbaugh that greatly helped shepherd me out of my previous knee-jerk liberalism, and afternoons with him on in the background of whatever I do on any given day has been like having a friend wherever I go -- a very brilliant as well as funny friend. I'm certain he is blanketed by God's love, as well as by the knowledge that, with an audience of 7 million at any given moment during the week (probably 6.9 million of whom are fans), he is beloved to so many.
But, despite some slight hesitance about saying 'out loud' that someone I've never met means that much to me, I just wanted to let any of you who are listening know that I'm sad today.
Have you read any of his books? He has a great imagination. Praying for him. Will keep you in prayers too.
