Rush Limbaugh says cancer treatment ‘kicking my ass,’ may take him off air

Rush Limbaugh says his latest round of cancer treatment is “kicking” his “ass” — and that it will likely take him off the airwaves soon.

“There have been many cycles, but this is the third wave, and this current wave, I have to tell you, is kicking my ass,” the 69-year-old syndicated conservative radio host said on his show Tuesday.

“For the last seven days, I have been virtually worthless, virtually useless. I haven’t left the house. I haven’t done much of anything,” said Limbaugh, who announced in February that he had advanced lung cancer.

He warned fans to soon expect to hear “a best-of show” or guest-hosting “The Rush Limbaugh Show” if he soon gets too sick to work.

“I hope that that doesn’t happen … but I do feel the need to keep you informed,” he said.

Limbaugh — who was surprised with the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the middle of this year’s State of the Union — hinted that he had a more detailed diagnosis.

“I’m still here, and that’s all that’s important. I can’t and don’t want to divulge any more than that,” he said.

“Every day I wake up and the first thing I do is thank God that I did,” he said. “Just waking up is a blessing.”

He revealed that a previous treatment “works in 97 percent of patients” but “did not work in me” — and that the latest round of treatment is not expected to “significantly” impact his tumor.

Still, he hopes his treatment has “bought us some time.”

“The reality is, the day is gonna come where I’m not gonna be able to be here. I don’t know when that is — and I’m hoping that it is months, years,” he said.