Rep. Raúl Grijalva ‘feeling good’ after lung most cancers handled

U.S. Rep. Raúl Grijalva says he is “feeling good” after present process chemotherapy and radiation remedies for lung most cancers and that he hopes to return to his Washington, D.C. workplace for work by early August.

In an interview Tuesday, the Democrat representing Tucson in Congress since 2003 mentioned “I do not know” if he is totally recovered from the most cancers.

He publicly disclosed his most cancers prognosis in early April, however did not specify it was lung most cancers, which he did in an interview late Tuesday afternoon with the Arizona Each day Star. 

“Proper now from the docs, every thing is nice. They’re working with me on bodily remedy, to get me sturdy sufficient to return to work,” he mentioned.

The most cancers brought on him to desert a heavy cigarette smoking behavior that had stretched again many many years — a behavior that almost all medical specialists have linked to lung most cancers because the center Nineteen Sixties.

“No shit. One factor got here out of this was good. I give up smoking,” Grijalva mentioned.

Whereas he is had each chemotherapy and radiation remedies for the most cancers, “it was principally chemo,” and “we stopped a few month in the past,” he mentioned.

He declined to say when the remedies started, saying his medical doctors suggested him to maintain that data personal.

He is nonetheless in bodily remedy — “the remedy is about getting my leg totally purposeful. I nonetheless want assist for that,” mentioned Grijalva, including that he personally would not know why he wants leg remedy after contracting lung most cancers.

Grijalva disclosed his most cancers prognosis on April 2. He introduced in a information launch on the time that he had sought remedy a number of weeks earlier for a persistent cough. From that, he first leaned he had pneumonia.

“Additional testing and imaging” revealed he had most cancers, he mentioned on the time.

Now, “I can’t go 100 miles an hour. I do go 95,” he instructed the Star.

Since his prognosis, he has labored from dwelling and responded to “every thing that got here in concerning coverage points,” though his therapies stored him from being bodily current on the workplace, he mentioned.

“When it comes to doing the job, we have taken positions on virtually every thing. You possibly can see from my press releases that we’re on high of stuff,” he mentioned.