city council’s vote<\/a> to approve a new stadium for the Tampa Bay Rays on the Hillsborough College property on Dale Mabry in Tampa.<\/p>\n“I just wanted to get it out there because things will be different for a while,” Hurtak said.<\/p>\n
Hurtak said she was diagnosed on July 31. She will begin chemotherapy treatment on Aug. 31 and undergo surgery.<\/p>\n
“I will be going through a 12-week cycle, and hopefully after that, it I will be through by Thanksgiving,” Hurtak said. “I will still have to have surgery, but it is something that I have been dealing with.”<\/p>\n
Hurtak acknowledged sitting through the 12-hour Rays vote on Friday “has been very painful for me. I’ve had, I’m in a lot of pain right now.”<\/p>\n
“I have been poked. I have been prodded,” Hurtak said. “I have been MRI’d. I have been PET scanned. On Monday, I had surgery to put a port in because I start chemotherapy on Monday.”<\/p>\n
Hurtak said she plans to continue to serve on a remote basis while undergoing treatment.<\/p>\n
“I’ll be here,” Hurtak said. “I just want my constituents to know that I fought for you today. I will continue to fight for you. Nothing changes for me. It just might change where I am.”<\/p>\n
Hurtak even managed a light-hearted moment after the announcement, joking with fellow council members Charlie Miranda and Alan Clendinen.<\/p>\n
“And I’m probably going to join Mr. Miranda and Councilman Clendenin in not having hair, but I will have a wig, so I mean, I’ve already thought about that,” Hurtak said.:<\/p>\n
Hurtak, who represents District 3, is running for mayor of Tampa. The election is in March.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tampa City Council member Lynn Hurtak announced Friday she has been diagnosed with breast cancer. Hurtak, 49, made…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385582,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[135,137,136],"class_list":["post-385581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tampa","tag-tampa","tag-tampa-headlines","tag-tampa-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}