Joe and Jill Biden mentioned on Monday they had been grateful for the “love and help” they’ve acquired for the reason that former president’s workplace introduced his most cancers analysis on Sunday.
“Most cancers touches us all,” the couple mentioned in a post on Joe Biden’s social media account. “Like so lots of you, Jill and I’ve realized that we’re strongest within the damaged locations. Thanks for lifting us up with love and help.”
The put up included a photograph of the couple, together with their cat, Willow.
Biden’s workplace on Sunday mentioned he had been recognized on Friday with prostate most cancers, saying that whereas it was “a extra aggressive type of the illness, the most cancers seems to be hormone-sensitive which permits for efficient administration.”
“The President and his household are reviewing remedy choices along with his physicians,” the assertion mentioned on Sunday.
Biden’s most cancers analysis comes after a small nodule was discovered within the former president’s prostate after “a routine bodily examination” on Tuesday. The invention of the nodule “necessitated additional analysis,” his spokesperson mentioned on the time.
President Joe Biden kisses his spouse First Girl Jill Biden after he gave the keynote tackle on the primary day of the Democratic Nationwide Conference (DNC) on the United Heart in Chicago, Illinois, on August 19, 2024.
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The sentiment about being stronger within the “damaged locations” is derived from a well-worn line in “A Farewell to Arms,” a novel by Ernest Hemingway, which says, “The world breaks everybody and afterward many are sturdy on the damaged locations.” It is a quotation that Biden has usually utilized in troublesome and vital moments, each in his life and for most of the people.
Biden used the phrase in 2016, as he opened his speech on the Democratic Nationwide Conference. He then quoted the road in March 2021, because the nation marked the first anniversary of the declaration of the COVID-19 pandemic. And he repeated it in September 2021, on the tenth anniversary of the Sept. 11 terror assaults, utilizing Hemingway’s phrases in his tribute to the victims.
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ABC Information’ Averi Harper, Brittany Shepherd, Eric M. Strauss and Leah Sarnoff contributed to this report.
