Julia Louis-Dreyfus Has Breast Cancer..

[HipChick]

"Veep" star took a shot at President Trump and Congress while announcing her diagnosis.

Julia just posted, "1 in 8 women get breast cancer. Today, I'm the one."

She added, "The good news is that I have the most glorious group of supportive and caring family and friends, and fantastic insurance through my union."

56-year-old Julia does not say anything about what stage she's in, or if doctors caught it early.

She did however take a shot at the battle over health care, saying not all women are in the position she is, "so let's fight all cancers and make universal health care a reality."

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[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Shit

[maveric]

2. Shit!

Fuck Cancer!

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

3. That's classy.

[Pachamama]

4. Hopefully she caught it early...

Cancer sucks....

[PJMcK]

5. Shit!

Cancer sucks!

[spanone]

6. K&R...

damn...

[Docreed2003]

7. Damn....

Had the pleasure of meeting Julia during the 2000 Gore campaign, along with Martin Sheen, Rob Reiner and other celebs. She's not only incredibly talented but a genuinely sweet, approachable, down to earth person. I truly hate this for her and anyone who is diagnosed with this disease. Best wishes Julia!!

[herding cats]

8. Fuck cancer.

I hope she kicks it in the ass!

[FakeNoose]

21. Yes - it's horrible news

I lost my mom and grandmother to breast cancer.
This is an awful disease and I really, really hope she beats it. (Some do.)

Go Julia! Best of luck to you. Hoping you make a full recovery.

[Ms. Toad]

30. It's more than some

Post-menopausal breast cancer tends to be less virulent than those that develop at a younger age.

I'm the 5th breast cancer in 4 generations. So far, although two of the 4 ancesters have died with breast cancer - none have died from it. My great-grandmother was diagnosed near 100, and died of other causes without treatment for breast cancer. The cancer metastasized to the bone in the next generation - and my grandmother died with metastatic breast cancer about 2 decades after her diagnosis. She died from complications of emphysema. My mother (two separate breast cancers) is still going strong with no sign of recurrence after her initial diagnosis nearly 2 decades ago, and nearly 5 after diagnosis with her second.

Hoping mine goes the same way - and that I don't regret having radiation (which creates a very small risk of a very aggressive cancer - as the trade-off for dramatically lowering the risk of a recurrence of the original tumor)

[FakeNoose]

32. Good luck to you

It's wonderful to be living in the age of "modern medicine" knowing that there's actually a chance to beat breast cancer.

Previous generations didn't have much of a chance, but we can hope and sometimes survive it.

[Ms. Toad]

33. Thanks.

But even prior generations, who were diagnosed with post-menopausal breast cancer, have a very high survival rate. In my instance, I'm 61, and the 4th generation with breast cancer. Even though two generations died WITH breast cancer, none of them have died FROM breast cancer.

[LuckyCharms]

9. Oh no. Get well soon please Julia.

[DFW]

10. We've been there. It wasn't fun.

As a second class patient under the German system, my wife got her diagnosis in January of 2001, and they said they'd let her know when they could treat her. She finally had the operation in May, and by then it had spread to the lymph nodes on her left side, all of which had to be removed. A brutal round of chemo spread over a couple of months, then six weeks of radiation.

The good part is that she was kept in the hospital for weeks of observation after the operation, and after the radiation was done, she got an insurance-paid month at a cancer rehab spa in the Black Forest. Yin and yang.

I hope Julia Dreyfus gets fabulous care, and goes on to call attention to how necessary it is that ALL women get examined often, and treated early if diagnosed. When cancer came back to haunt my wife again last year, it was somewhere else, and in a mostly incurable form called "the murderer." If not diagnosed in time, she would have been long dead by now.

[Coventina]

11. REC for her strength and message. Not for the sad news. n/t

[louis c]

12. Thank for your strength and reminding people that most people don't appreciate a union.........

...until they need one.

[lindysalsagal]

24. THIS!!!!!!!

The SCOTUS is about to scuttle unions.

[louis c]

25. Union Workers Helped to Elect Trump

Rank and file union workers, especially white males, overwhelmingly voted for Donald Trump. The Mid-West had the highest numbers, but it was nation wide, even in the liberal Northeast.

I have said from the very beginning of this administration, that the first people Trump will fuck are the people who elected him (the wealthy always vote Republican, so it was the blue collar worker who elected Trump).

Now, we are seeing it played out in Health Care, Tax Reform and the decimation of Unions.

I am not a religious person, but I have read the bible. "You reap what you sow".

I'm at the end of my long union career, so the negative effects will have limited impact on me, personally. I can argue with my union brothers until I'm blue in the face, but you can only do so much for people who refuse to help themselves.

[lindysalsagal]

26. We've got some frump voters in my local union. I'll never get it.

They'll only figure it out when it's too late.

[nolabear]

13. Oh my. How wonderful she thinks of others now.

Hoping for the best possible outcome.

[Greybnk48]

14. This was a punch in the gut.

I feel like I know her.

[TNNurse]

15. I too had good insurance

and wonderful support. We would have not been able to pay those bills. It has been five years, and we would probably both be having to work to pay it off. Fortunately we are retired now.

I so admire someone like her who is independently wealthy (without being an actor) and speaks up for those who need health care beyond their means.

[True Dough]

16. Wishing strength to Julia!

May she overcome this illness and continue to live a full life.

[Wounded Bear]

17. Sad to hear that, and hope she can heal and recover...

[progressoid]

18. Damn. Cancer sucks.

[Gothmog]

19. I am praying for a full and complete recovery

JLD is an amazing person

[Ken Burch]

20. She has the capacity to turn this horrible personal situation into a call for change.

That's what a hero does.

[calimary]

22. She and Jimmy Kimmel - using the health crisis they each face, personally, to send a message.

Both in the same way - grateful they can afford good treatment while VERY mindful of all those who cannot. And saying so out loud.

[busterbrown]

23. She such a ball of fire..Veep was

truly a hoot.. hope she has another great series when she recovers.

Come on gal....beat the hell out it!

[Ms. Toad]

27. Filming for the 7th season is scheduled to start in about 3 weeks - has she announced

she will not be returning?

I lost a grand total of 4 days from work following my cancer diagnosis. I threatened to come back the day after surgery (and easily could have) if my employees didn't stop (inaccurately) responding to critical emails on my behalf when it was clear I was alert adn functioning from home. And I work 80-100 hours a week. I probably cut back to 60-80 during radiation becuase it required 2+ hours/day to drive to and from radiation therapy.

It's a pain, and is deadly for many, but for many others (especially at her age) breast cancer does not necessarily even mean much of an interruption to your life.

[busterbrown]

28. Good Job...

That Far? Ridiculous. What State? No hospital closer?

[Ms. Toad]

29. I fired the medical team that was 10 minutes (if I took the long route) from my office

The local team messed up pretty much every appointment they made for me. They would tell me they scheduled me back-to-back for two appointments so I could just walk up the stairs from one to the other. Trouble is the two appointments were 45 miles apart, which I only found out when one of them called the day ahead to confirm my appointment. It was the middle of finals week, and I had very carefully scheduled my appointments to accommodate student meetings, to make sure students had access for last minute questions about the next day's exam, and driving 45 minutes to an appointment that was supposed to be 10 minutes away did not sit well with me.

In another instance they insisted on making my appointments for me, then didn't bother to tell me critical information like the facility fee that would be charged on top of my copayment (Information I would have gotten if I had spoken with them myself - that I only found out after arriving for the appointment, no one could tell me how much it was or if my insurance covered it, and since the idiot double-booked things to get me in, if I didn't take the appointment (and pay the fee no matter what it was) it would have been another month before I could get back in). I was wrestling with a relatively new diabetes diagnosis, that is extremely sensitive to emotional distress - and my blood sugar was elevating more in response to the stress than to anything I ate.

It was like that for every single appointment - and if you are familiar with the early states of cancer triage- you know there are appointments every other day with a half dozen doctors from imaging to surgery. That's a lot of appointments and unnecessary aggravation when they are all screwed up.

The icing on the cake was when i took my family to a support group in the doctor's office (where everyone was worshippping the doctor and facility). I shared my experience, which was not wonderful, and their response caused my daughter to say as we left, "They really don't care if you come here or not, do they?)

When I'm battling cancer & trying to meet my heaviest student demand all year, I don't need to be aggravated every single time I have to communicate with my care team.

I switched to my mother's doctor. My mother has had two different bouts with breast cancer (a new primary cancer, not a metastasis from the first) - I trust my mother's doctor so I decided to accept the longer drive for treatment. Once the surgeon was roughly an hour away, I also swithced the medical and radiological oncologists so the entire team was within the same building and used to working with each other. The only one that was a significant hassle was the radiology, since that was a daily round trip for 17 weekdays days in a row.

(After I switched, the new team actually found two new suspicious spots on the films that the team I fired had taken and declared clean . . . they ultimately turned out to be nothing, but we delayed surgery for two additional biopsies so that I could avoid waking up surprised to find to a complete mastectomy, rather than the partial one I had planned (the suspicious spots were too far away from teh primary tumor to leave anything to work with). Another reason I'm glad I fired the first team. Based on the hospital system, I'm not surprised it was so chaotic - it has that reputation. But based on the surgeon's own recent breast cancer diagnosis, I'm appalled that she thinks what they offered was satisfactory care.)

[busterbrown]

31. Thanks Ms Toad.. I learned a lot..

Perhaps those local team members? Are overloaded with patients and schedules.. AND NOT PAID ENOUGH FOR WHAT THEY DO.. MS. Toad thanks for taking me inside the system.. So screwed up!Please keep us posted!