Victor Davis Hanson Opens Up About Frustration With Recovery After Cancer Surgery
Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson disclosed his disappointment with his recovery during a Thursday episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.” Hanson has been recovering from a Dec. 30…
Hoover Institution senior fellow Victor Davis Hanson disclosed his disappointment with his recovery during a Thursday episode of “Victor Davis Hanson: In His Own Words.”
Hanson has been recovering from a Dec. 30 operation to remove a cancerous tumor, during which he faced complications. He suggested on his Daily Signalshow that he believed he should feel better six weeks following the operation and that he wished he could return to working full-time.
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“Six weeks ago tonight, I got operated. And I think — I’m getting frustrated because I’m not feeling the way I should, I think … I lost, I don’t know, two or three liters and five transfusions,” Hanson said. “And that’s my problem right now. It’s not the surgery — I mean, it hurts, and I feel like there’s something missing down there. I wonder where it went. It’s kind of like a little black hole. You lose half of your lung.”
“And then to have AFib and kind of like an IED — you go places, you never know when it’s going to go off,” he added. “And then the medicine for it is kind of bad. It wouldn’t be bad, but I have mast cell mastocytosis. So it kind of releases mast cells. So I just feel like I’m too wobbly. I can’t drive yet. I’d like to get back full-time to work … I really want to get back.”