Stop Picking on Steve Jobs!
The media has had a field day since Steve Jobs announced he’s taking a medical leave of absence.
Like vultures circling overhead, they’ve taken turns speculating about Job’s prognosis.
“He looks emaciated” (this from a reporter in the U.S. where one third of all residents are now classified as “medically obese.”)
“He is 55 years old now, after all” (this from a 62 year old radio talk show host.)
“He’s already taken time off for pancreatic cancer and a liver transplant” (and your point is?)
“He could be dying!”(Dying? We are all dying!) During the time it takes to read this, it’s likely that your arteries are building up plaque, leading to heart disease, the number one cause of death in America. It’s simply matter of time before you, or a loved one, will need to take medical leave.
Give Steve Jobs a break.
Do the naysayers and speculators have any idea how much mental determination and physical strength is required to fight pancreatic cancer and live through a liver transplant? Most of Job’s critics probably balk at the thought having a colonoscopy, let alone cancer treatment. I’m willing to wager that Jobs has more testicular fortitude than do 99% of his critics.
Admittedly, I am taking the criticism targeted for Steve Jobs personally; I too am a cancer patient. I have had my own pancreas and liver surgeries at a world renowned liver transplant center, more than a decade ago, followed by ten years of more surgeries and chemotherapies.
During the past decade, I have been referred to hospice care at least four times, yet here I am, “emaciated” but obviously a viable and productive human being, as is Steve Jobs, one of the most innovative and creative minds of our generation.
Instead of gossiping and speculating, the media should be inspired by him.
Before you start wringing your hands and shuffling your stock portfolios, consider how you would want to be treated when your time comes to face the battle of your life. Jobs has been fighting his battle bravely. He has proven the skeptics to be wrong before and has outlived his prognosis.
He needs your encouragement.
Support Steve Jobs!
This essay is an excerpt from “GG Speaks” and from “Cancer Can’t Defeat Us” Copyright © 2011 by Red Tailed Hawk Publishing.
The media has had a field day since Steve Jobs announced he’s taking a medical leave of absence.
Like vultures circling overhead, they’ve taken turns speculating about Job’s prognosis.
“He looks emaciated” (this from a reporter in the U.S. where one third of all residents are now classified as “medically obese.”)
“He is 55 years old now, after all” (this from a 62 year old radio talk show host.)
“He’s already taken time off for pancreatic cancer and a liver transplant” (and your point is?)
“He could be dying!”(Dying? We are all dying!) During the time it takes to read this, it’s likely that your arteries are building up plaque, leading to heart disease, the number one cause of death in America. It’s simply matter of time before you, or a loved one, will need to take medical leave.
Give Steve Jobs a break.
Do the naysayers and speculators have any idea how much mental determination and physical strength is required to fight pancreatic cancer and live through a liver transplant? Most of Job’s critics probably balk at the thought having a colonoscopy, let alone cancer treatment. I’m willing to wager that Jobs has more testicular fortitude than do 99% of his critics.
Admittedly, I am taking the criticism targeted for Steve Jobs personally; I too am a cancer patient. I have had my own pancreas and liver surgeries at a world renowned liver transplant center, more than a decade ago, followed by ten years of more surgeries and chemotherapies.
During the past decade, I have been referred to hospice care at least four times, yet here I am, “emaciated” but obviously a viable and productive human being, as is Steve Jobs, one of the most innovative and creative minds of our generation.
Instead of gossiping and speculating, the media should be inspired by him.
Before you start wringing your hands and shuffling your stock portfolios, consider how you would want to be treated when your time comes to face the battle of your life. Jobs has been fighting his battle bravely. He has proven the skeptics to be wrong before and has outlived his prognosis.
He needs your encouragement.
Support Steve Jobs!
This essay is an excerpt from “GG Speaks” and from “Cancer Can’t Defeat Us” Copyright © 2011 by Red Tailed Hawk Publishing.