Ben Sasse
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And he said, are you sure?
And I said, yeah.
He said, I'm gonna pull, he was driving too.
He said, I'm gonna pull over off the side of the road.
And he said, here's a hard fact.
Ben Sasse's torso is chock full of tumors.
I was like, okay, you came in with the real stuff.
So I have pancreatic cancer, stage four, already metastasized.
They told me right away on day one, this is not operable, you're way post-surgical.
They told me over the course of the next couple of days that I already have five forms of cancer, lymphoma, vascular, lung cancer, bad liver cancer, and pancreatic where it originated.
So it was pretty clear that we're dealing with a short number of months left to live.
What did they tell you to do?
What was their advice?
I said, I believe we're all on the clock.
We're all dying.
So this is not the scariest thing to me.
I've always known that we're going to be pushing up daisies eventually.
This is more finite.
And I have two kids out of the house.
Our daughters are 24 and 22.