Councilman diagnosed with cancer
Councilman Steve Aspel is offering this advice: "Get scoped." Councilman Steve Aspel sent a funny email to his friends and supporters last week. It wasn’t an unusual thing – some borderline dirty jokes and banter, as per his normal mode of discourse – except that the email was titled “uh oh” and it contained some serious news. Aspel has been diagnosed with rectal cancer and will undergo chemotherapy, radiation treatment, and surgery. “I’m already bald, I could lose a few pounds so it can’t be all bad!” he wrote. The two term councilman, who celebrated his 57th birthday on Tuesday, said in an interview this week that doctors have identified a small, malignant tumor poking through his colon wall. The tumor is believed to be “stage three,” Aspel said, which is not an early stage but well within time for treatment. “It’s serious, but it’s not like the doctor told me to go fill out a bucket list,” Aspel said. Aspel has no plans to step down from the council as he undergoes treatment. “I intend on going about my life as normal,” he said. The councilman urged others to “get scoped” regularly so such cancer does not go undetected until it’s too late. And he forthrightly shared the story…
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