Holliman hospitalized
In case y'all didn't see this over the weekend, Rep. Hugh Holliman had surgery late last week. This is the story our friends at the Associated Press had:
RALEIGH (AP) - House Majority Leader Hugh Holliman, who was diagnosed with lung cancer eight years ago, was hospitalized again Friday after doctors removed a cancerous tumor from his lung, according to Speaker Joe Hackney's office.Holliman, D-Davidson, was recovering in the intensive care unit at Forsyth Medical Center in Winston-Salem, Hackney spokesman Bill Holmes said. He wasn't expected to attend Monday's special session to consider whether to override Gov. Mike Easley's veto of an economic incentives bill.
Holliman, 63, was diagnosed with lung cancer in 1999 and said two years ago he was cured. An electronic scan of his lungs found the tumor, which was confined to the lung and hadn't spread to other organs, Holmes said.
Holliman's illness, as well as the lung cancer that led to his sister's death, have motivated him to introduce legislation that would ban smoking in restaurants and other public places.
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