niceguyrichy

Apple boss Steve Jobs received a liver transplant about two months ago and is expected to return to work later this month, a US newspaper has reported.

The Wall Street Journal said the Apple chief executive would be returning to his job on schedule, but may initially work part-time.

Neither Mr Jobs nor a company spokeswoman confirmed the report, the newspaper said.
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Source: BBC news

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Mac Daddy

I was just going to post this from another source thanks for the submit Richy.

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Th3_VVr41th

They almost had it right, he's actually undergoing treatment for Pancreatic cancer... Has been since January when he announced he would be taking some time "off" for the then undisclosed "medical" condition.

Now we know what it is...

I'm not a fan of any products of "his" company (although I own several pieces), but I wish him well in his fight. No one should ever have to go through what he faces...

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niceguyrichy

apparantly this is different.
all that smoke and mirrors stuff months back when he eventually said he was suffering a hormone imbalance was him getting his liver swapped. apparantly
(nobody has officialy admitted it yet, but the original source was the Wall Street Journal, and not The National Enquirer )

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WaltC

What surprises me is the amount of denial and obfuscation that surrounds the notion of public clarity on precisely what Jobs' condition and prognosis actually is. I certainly think that any private citizen is entitled to all of the privacy he wants concerning the publication of issues revolving around his personal health.

But, Steve Jobs is not just a private citizen, he's the head of a corporation which solicits billions of dollars from investors who have not only a right, but who have a very real and obvious need to understand Jobs' health in terms of making investment decisions relative to the Apple Jobs runs. My opinion is that if Jobs' wanted a privacy blackout he should have resigned from Apple.

But he seems to want his cake and to eat it, too, in this regard. He doesn't wish to resign, and he is putting out press releases talking about returning to work--all the while he characterizes his condition as though it is little more than a broken pinky that needs to be set so that he can get back to work as usual. That's exactly the way this is being characterized in the press, sad to say.

A liver transplant is an extremely serious procedure regardless of how many in the press are striving to make it appear as only slightly more serious than a bad case of the flu. In fact, the procedure is one reserved for life and death prognoses--it isn't minor, and the complications that can and often do arise from such a procedure are legion.

But the big thing to me is what hasn't been said as of yet, and that is that Jobs' liver failed, or was deemed to be failing and irretrievable, specifically as a result of his pancreatic cancer having metastasized to his liver. Often in such cases when the cancer spreads to the liver it has also spread to several other organs in the body. Unfortunately, by the time it becomes obvious that the cancer has metastasized to other organs in the body *aside from the liver* it is already too late to do much of anything about it.

Yet remarkably, in several publications reporting on this issue, Jobs is said to be a "pancreatic cancer survivor." As if the condition mandating replacement of his liver had nothing to do with his pancreatic cancer.

I really don't understand Jobs' fear of telling his story truthfully and accurately, and more than that I don't understand the nature of a press which would become complicit with him in his desire to deny what is happening to him at the moment. It's just like the "hormone imbalance" story Jobs circulated after he was *forced* to take note of the fact that people thought he looked on death's door and were very concerned about it. It's telling that before Jobs took his leave of absence, and before he circulated the "hormone imbalance" story followed by the "my illness is more complex than I thought and so I have to take a leave of absence" story, that Jobs apparently didn't realize how unhealthy he appeared in public!

I have to hope that anyone who would fly to Tennessee just to get a "quickie" liver transplant, after having undergone surgery for pancreatic cancer, would be under no illusions about his health. I also think Jobs owes it to his employees, investors, and customers to be straightforward with them about the likelihood of his continuing to serve as the CEO of Apple. Most of all, I think, Jobs owes it to himself and to his family.

I for one hope that Jobs' penchant for the RDF hasn't reached into his private life and hasn't caused him to rely on the advice and treatment of medical quacks and opportunists. It would be a real shame, I think, and a tragic end to a brilliant life, if Jobs were to suddenly one day soon realize he's dying and yet be the last one to learn about it.

mkk

I hope it won't become one of those stories like that ten years from now it will still be a mystery what kind of treatment he was really undergoing before he died. I see that risk since hiding the cancer could come from wanting to avoid having to disclose the type of treatments to the company board and stockholders. Having made friends in places like Hollywood can be quite dangerous at times like these.

Mac Daddy

All I can say is hope he gets well

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