Former Boston mayor collapses..Flynn has been battling recurring melanoma

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2008/09/flynn_resting_c.html

The younger Flynn said his father has been under intense stress lately. He is grieving the loss of his brother, Dennis, who died last month of a heart attack at age 61. On Monday, the former mayor attended a Mass for his brother marking a month since his death.

Flynn has also been battling recurring melanoma, a form of skin cancer, his son said. He said that his father suffered from the disease while he was mayor more than a decade ago and that he has been experiencing symptoms recently. His son said yesterday that the case is not serious but that it may have combined with other stresses to lead to his father's collapse.

Flynn's son said the skin cancer is on his hands, ears, and the side of his face. His father has long attributed the disease, his son said, to his days in the sun playing sports in South Boston, where he was a basketball star.

[babylonsister]

1. Hmmm. Didn't McBush have melanoma? I didn't know it recurred

like that.

[AlCzervik]

2. well that's sad, got no love for Flynn but cancer really sucks.