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by rjurney
6196 days ago
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No. No thats not how it works. Not when you already had a form of slow-metastasizing pancreatic cancer that usually shows up in other organs... like the liver, within your lifetime. They knew he had cancer. They knew he needed a liver. They lied. So be it. To be honest, when he started talking about 'nutritional imbalance' and sounding alternative mediciney... I assumed he was terminal. Thats how people get when medical science gives them VERY bad news. I've thought he was dead, or nearly dead, for six months. I am very pleased to be wrong. |
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I have liver problems. It's not liver transplant liver problems but it's a problem nonetheless. Here is how I found out about it: I felt vaguely crappy for 6 months but just thought I was fatigued because I stay up late and don't have a very good diet. I finally went to the doctor for something else, they did some tests which initially signaled some problems that could be related to my liver or could be from something else. Then they do some more tests and I waited 3 weeks and they say "yeah it's your liver."
So Jobs loses weight through 2008, he goes to the doctor in January and they say "whoa initial tests show you are messed up, you need more tests." They make that announcement to the press. Then he gets more test results, he announces a week later that the problem is way worse than he thought, he needs a transplant, time for a leave of absence.
Of course if you're the kind of ghoul who plays death pool games it's more fun to imagine corporate conspiracy theories hiding his problem for months or years to keep the short sellers at bay. However, Occam's Razor would suggest that a typical male relationship pattern with the doctor's office is a more likely explanation.