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Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Life Notes from the Prayer Warrior

Posted by Eli Sanders on Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 1:00 PM

Weekend Slog readers may have noted that The Prayer Warrior, Ken Hutcherson, seems to have cancer. If you missed that development, the relevant e-mail, as well as an in-the-comments debate over how one should feel (and respond), is well worth checking out.

Today brings a new Prayer Warrior update, which I'm sure will add fuel to the theory that all of this is just a made up ploy for sympathy—and, perhaps, for donations. Myself, I'm still out of the country, I still haven't received a reply to the e-mail I sent Hutcherson inquiring about his health, and so, for now, I'm still giving him the benefit of the doubt and wishing him well.

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Tuesday, 27 January 2009

Thank you all so much for praying. I spent more than three hours with the doctors yesterday and even though my numbers keep going up, I am doing much better than they expected so we will put off chemo for the time being and try a new medicine. Please pray that I stay healthy for the next 30 days until this new medicine becomes available.

Hutch

PS Please pray for my time on the Rush Limbaugh show this coming Friday at 11:00 am Pacific time.

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Did anyone watch the new Closer last night? If not - SPOILER ALERT - ok, you've been warned.

Anyway, the murderer ended up being this church member who faked having cancer because she liked the attention. Oh, and the money people were fundraising for her.

I'm not saying this is the case here, just saying...

Posted by defman23 on January 27, 2009 at 1:05 PM

If I'm to understand his faith, he's going to a better place so be happy of him, if not totally jealous. It's how he'd want it.

Win/win if you ask me.

Posted by Heaven Awaits (Proceed Forthwith, Good Sir) on January 27, 2009 at 1:08 PM

Funny you mentioned the Closer because I was thinking the same thing. I won't beleive Hutch has cancer unless I see his medical records.

I pray that all the oxygen is sucked out of the studio when Hutch meets Limbaugh and they both meet their maker, Satan.

Posted by elswinger on January 27, 2009 at 1:12 PM

It all sounds very fishy. His alerts always refer to "blood numbers" which is just too vague to have meaning. The man is a moral quagmire.

Posted by Inkweary on January 27, 2009 at 1:14 PM

Is it bad of me to want to pray that another Hurricane Hugo/Ivan/Katrina hits Florida on Friday around 11am PST and drowns both Hutch and Rush? It would make a believer out of me, for sure! And it would show that God likes to have a good laugh every now and then.

Posted by Haggard on January 27, 2009 at 1:17 PM

Wait - he needs his congregation to invoke divine intervention - until his FREAKING MEDS become available?

Why has this man's head not 'sploded from the pressure of all that cognitive dissonance?

Posted by COMTE on January 27, 2009 at 1:19 PM

I've never understood the point of praying? Isn't god supposed to already know everything? There's no reason to pray, god already knows it as soon as you think it... hell, god knows it before you think it.

What's the point?

Although I don't really see the point of religion either, but I'm just saying...

Posted by Urgutha Forka on January 27, 2009 at 1:21 PM

hepatitis C anyone?

I'll bet the pot on that.

Posted by gnossos on January 27, 2009 at 1:28 PM

I wish cancer on noone.

Now, infectious diseases, that's another thing.

Posted by Will in Seattle on January 27, 2009 at 1:32 PM

@5, can you make your prayers specific to the Florida that's below the Orlando area? There are some great folk in the northern portion - like yers truly.
To quote/paraphrase Carl Hiassen: "There's nothing wrong with Florida that a good Force 5 wouldn't fix" - just aim south, please.

Posted by Reverend Z on January 27, 2009 at 1:34 PM

Why would a true believer need tests or medications? God decided his fate long ago. No action can change that fate.

Posted by eclexia on January 27, 2009 at 1:46 PM

@8,

Can hepatitis C be treated with chemo? I thought the standard treatment was interferon.

Any docs out there? What kind of disease is chemo optional?

Posted by keshmeshi on January 27, 2009 at 1:55 PM

Godspeed the afterlife!

Posted by very bad homo on January 27, 2009 at 2:05 PM

Chemo is just a catch-all for medicine or drugs, though implicitly for cancer. For some reason, the term is usually confused with radiation therapy, which it is not. A cancer patient would know the distinction, but the general public doesn't always.

Posted by Dougsf on January 27, 2009 at 2:09 PM

Oh yes, Hutch. Please do forgo the chemo. I wanna see how prayer works in the absence of modern medicine. Surely someone as blessed in Gawd's eye as you can pray away the C.

Posted by Reverse Polarity on January 27, 2009 at 2:13 PM

He has a fatal case of raging homophobia. It's got to come out some way.

Posted by Vince on January 27, 2009 at 2:17 PM

Why on earth would you wish someone well who doesn't like you, doesn't respect you and doesn't feel you should have equal rights to do with your life as you please.

Posted by Joseph on January 27, 2009 at 2:17 PM

@8, what 14 said. Most docs and patients these days routinely refer to the variety of interferon treatments as chemo. And believe me, the side effects for some folks as bad or worse as any of the chemotherapies that the general public associates with cancers.

Posted by gnossos on January 27, 2009 at 2:19 PM

I want Hutch to die, die painfully and with great fear. Finally, just before he dies he finds there is no light, nothing, not even darkness.....nothing.

Posted by Cato the Younger Younger on January 27, 2009 at 2:28 PM

@16 for the win.

Posted by Will in Seattle on January 27, 2009 at 2:34 PM

Will Rush be laying hands upon him?

Does Hutch get his meds from Rush?

Will there be snakes, music and dancing?

Posted by yawp on January 27, 2009 at 2:35 PM

I've read RPGs on Livejournal that are better thought out than this plot. Harry and Draco anyone? Oy.

Posted by Eames Chair on January 27, 2009 at 3:25 PM

The irony is that Hutch's medication comes from science not Jesus, but you'll never here him give props to those "godless bastards" who invented it.

Posted by yucca flower on January 27, 2009 at 4:13 PM

My step sister has "had cancer" for about 20 years, and she says stuff like this all the time.

She doesn't get invited around any more because it just makes everybody uncomfortable to have to listen to her bullshit.

Posted by Ray on January 27, 2009 at 4:26 PM

His condition is so serious yet he's going to appear on Flush Limpballs? Yuh. Right. Whatevs.

Posted by The One Who Knows All on January 27, 2009 at 6:28 PM

Hey get this - Flush Limpballs sez The Hutch has just returned from a hunting trip. Guess he was out bagging sympathy, donations and drama with the latest e-missive. I'm almost tempted to tune in Friday to hear what he has to say. Almost.

Posted by The One Who Knows All on January 27, 2009 at 6:32 PM

@ 24 - Yeah, I hate it when those pesky step-relatives with their terminal illnesses won't shut up and ruin our healthy lives and good times by complaining. why can't they just die!

Posted by dr on January 28, 2009 at 10:23 AM