Just How Sick Is Steve Jobs? (AAPL)

We all know that Steve Jobs is sick. What's not known is how sick he is, and that's worrying investors of Apple AAPL this morning, as well as everyone else. Jobs did have pancreatic cancer a few years ago, but he had a transplant and was able to come back to work. Last time, he gave some kind of time frame for returning to work. This time, he did not. Supposedly the National Enquirer is set to run pictures of Jobs with him looking frail and gaunt. Jobs was spotted leaving the Stanford Cancer Center in Palo Alto, California, according to RadarOnline.com. Neither the Enquirer or RadarOnline has definitive proof of Jobs being there, but it's not to say that he couldn't be there. The man is sick and is seeking treatment so that he can return to work full time. He is still going to attend a meeting with President Obama today, to discuss ways to innovate. Google GOOG CEO Eric Schmidt and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will also be in attendance. The meeting will be held at a private residence in San Francisco. Shares of Apple are down 1.1% in pre-market trading, so the Street is giving a little credence to this story, but not much. I suspect this is going to be much ado about nothing, unless we begin to hear that Apple is going to do strange things, like a massive buyback or something out of the ordinary. Either way, Steve Jobs needs to get himself better and get back to creating magic. We're all pulling for you Steve.
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