Mayor Rob Ford will return to Mount Sinai Hospital for his fourth round of chemotherapy Monday.
“I’m doing good,” the mayor told CP24 Thursday night. “It starts getting a little tiring on me, nights like tonight, so next week I’m going to get off my feet and see what the updates are.”
The mayor was out along with family to celebrate the 50th birthday of his brother, Coun. Doug Ford.
“If it wasn’t for him, I don’t know how I could get through life sometimes,” Rob Ford said of his older sibling. “He’s the rock of my life.”
Last month, Ford said he had been informed by doctors that his first two rounds of chemotherapy had not been successful in shrinking the tumour and only prevented its further growth.
“We are just playing it by ear now,” Coun. Doug Ford told CP24 earlier Thursday. “Hopefully, it works.”
News of the mayor’s impeding fourth round of chemotherapy comes as Ford gets set to sell off the rest of his ‘Robbie Bobbies’ bobbleheads and donate the proceeds to two Toronto hospitals.
In a statement released Wednesday night, Ford invited members of the public to come to the mayor’s office during business hours Friday to purchase the remaining bobbleheads at a price of $30 each.
Net proceeds will go to support Humber River Hospital and Mount Sinai Hospital.
“Over the past two months, I have been fortunate to receive excellent medical care as I continue to fight my battle with cancer,” Ford said in the release. “I would now like to help the people who have helped me.”
Previous sales of Ford bobbleheads have resulted in long lineups at city hall, but on Thursday Doug Ford told CP24 that there will be enough of the figurines to go around.
“This isn’t about Rob Ford; this is about beating cancer and fighting for everyone that has this terrible disease,” he said.
Ford was diagnosed with liposarcoma, a rare soft-tissue cancer, in September, prompting him to drop out of the city’s mayoral race and run for a council seat in Ward 2 instead.
He won the seat but there is no word on whether he will attend December’s council meeting.
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