Saturday, April 09, 2016

Good guy. He's not alone-----Here’s the Struggle You Don’t See Fox News’s Neil Cavuto Going Through When You Watch Him on TV

Here’s the Struggle You Don’t See Fox News’s Neil Cavuto Going Through When You Watch Him on TV:
"...And his struggle to maintain good health hasn’t exactly been a secret.
He battled advanced non-Hodgkins lymphoma (cancer) in the late 1980s, and in 1997, was diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis.
The effects of MS can be so severe that many who have it are unable to continue working, and Cavuto admits that the symptoms can be unpredictable and quite severe:
“I’ve heard MS described as a mercurial menace in that it can rob senses and muscles indiscriminately, anytime and anywhere.
It’s a disease that doesn’t much care about what you’re doing when one, or several, of its infamous exacerbations hits.
All I know is it hits hard, and to this day, I never seem quite ready when it does. 
Over the years, it has literally taken the legs right out from under me.
There are times when I can’t walk, other times when I am walking as if I’m dragging an anchor, as I’m trying to ‘be’ an anchor.”
...“Its vagaries are as weird as their fallout is fast. Mid-shows, I’ve been blinded, literally, as my vision is all but blacked out.
Adjusting to that alone took years.
I’m now at the point I no longer use a TelePrompTer at all, not because I’m smooth, but because I have no choice.
I’ve taken to memorizing scripts and bullet points, even guests’ points of views and myriad of segment facts, so I’m ready for anything, any time.
These weren’t choices I wanted to make; these were choices I ‘had’ to make..."

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