LF: Ginsburg makes 1st public appearance since cancer surgery; walks 1 mile a day

Title: Ginsburg makes 1st public appearance since cancer surgery; walks 1 mile a day
Source: AP
URL Source: https://www.apnews.com/b94fea4b4a2a408fabcf756da790ff27
Published: Feb 5, 2019
Author: MARK SHERMAN
Post Date: 2019-02-05 01:28:54 by Hondo68
Keywords: a mile a day, personal trainer, story of RBG
Views: 917
Comments: 2

FILE - In this Nov. 30, 2018 file photo, Associate Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, nominated by President Bill Clinton, sits with fellow Supreme Court justices for a group portrait at the Supreme Court Building in Washington. Ginsburg is making her first public appearance since undergoing lung cancer surgery in December. The 85-year-old Ginsburg is attending a concert at a museum a few blocks from the White House that is being given by her daughter-in-law and other musicians. Patrice Michaels is married to Ginsburg's son, James. Michaels is a soprano and composer. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

WASHINGTON (AP) — Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is making her first public appearance since undergoing lung cancer surgery in December.

The 85-year-old Ginsburg is attending a concert at a museum a few blocks from the White House that is being given by her daughter-in-law and other musicians. Patrice Michaels is married to Ginsburg’s son, James. Michaels is a soprano and composer.

The concert is dedicated to Ginsburg’s life in the law.

Ginsburg had surgery in New York on Dec. 21. She missed arguments at the court in January, her first illness-related absence in more than 25 years as a justice.

She has been recuperating at her home in Washington since late December.

Ginsburg had two previous bouts with cancer. She had colorectal cancer in 1999 and pancreatic cancer in 2009.

The justice sat in the back of the darkened auditorium at the National Museum of Women in the Arts.

The National Constitution Center, which sponsored the concert, did not permit photography.

James Ginsburg said before the concert that his mother is walking a mile a day and meeting with her personal trainer twice a week.

The performance concluded with a song set to Ginsburg’s answers to questions.

In introducing the last song, Michaels said, “bring our show to a close, but not the epic and notorious story of RBG.”

She makes that many toilet trips each day? There is no way in hell she is walking a whole mile at one time.

As for her personal trainer,that has to be the plum job of the decade for whoever it is. You can phone it in.