Back in March, Alex Trebek revealed that he is battling stage 4 pancreatic cancer. Since then he has given several quick updates on his battle. Today, he sat down with Good Morning America’s Robin Roberts and gave her a much thorough update.
The Jeopardy host told her that his oncologist says he is doing well, even though he does not always feel that way. He explained, “I am used to dealing with pain, but what I am not used to dealing with is the surges that come on suddenly of deep, deep sadness. And it brings tears to my eyes.” Then he added that through this process, he learned that he is “a little bit of a wuss”.
That is the emotional side of it, he also talked about the numbers. He says that his platelet counts, his blood counts and his weight are steady. There is one group of numbers that have gotten lower since he started chemo and they are the cancer indicator ones.
Even though the chemotherapy is knocking him out, he is still going ahead with it. He is scheduled to go in next week for another round of it.
Believe it or not, since he was diagnosed with cancer, he taped 50 episodes of his game show. Just like us, he is enjoying watching Jeopardy James Holzhauer beat all of the past contestant records.
And we are enjoying watching him beat cancer. His positive attitude is going to help him go the distance and we are there to support him throughout it.
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We have seen weatherman brave hurricanes, floods, freezing cold weather and other natural disasters. However, I never saw any of them be as brave as WTVA’s Joel Young. While he was telling the people of Tupelo, Mississippi the weather for the day, a wasp flew onto his shirt. Instead of screaming like a girl (like I would have done), he continued on as though nothing was any really different. That was until the bugger got a little too close to his stinger. Then he acted like any man would and stepped off the set to protect his weather stick.
What was he thinking as it was happening? He said, “I’m not sure if I was scared of getting stung… Or how I would react if it had stung me on live TV. 😨” I think it was the latter because no one wants to go viral like that meteorologist who acted hysterically when he saw a roach. Which is what we would have preferred.
Def Leppard is being inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and they working the press circuit to promote it. This morning, they were on Good Morning America and they might have revealed what their biggest hit Pour Some Sugar On Me is really about.
Here I have thought for all of this time that it was about sex, but it is really about putting sugar in a coffee cup? Color me red light, yellow light, green-a-light surprised!
BTW I wonder how many times they have been asked to do that since the single came out in 1987?
NBC’s Matt Bradley was getting ready to go live the other day and he wanted to make sure he looked good on camera. Since he is in a war zone, he does not have hair and makeup available to him. Therefore, he has to use whatever he has including his own spit.
We know that because the camera caught him using his spit as gel before he went live. You know he looked better before he styled his hair. I like a man who is not perfect, especially out in the field.
A few years ago, on April Fool’s Day, there was a rumor that there was going to be a sequel to Twins called Triplets with Eddie Murphy as their brother. Turns out part of that rumor was true.
Today, when Danny DeVito was on Good Morning America they asked him about it. He said that he and Arnold Schwarzenegger are talking about it, but they don’t know who their triplet will be at this point. Mostly because they still don’t have a screenplay written for it. They have some ideas, but nothing written down on paper just yet.
Once they get that done, then we will finally get a sequel of the 1988 classic.
You know what, I still like the idea of Murphy as the third Benedict.
