Elizabeth Edwards dies

[blitzkrieg_17]

RIP Mrs. Edwards. I wasn't with you politically but I wish this fate upon no one. May you find peace now that you are free from your total jerk of a husband, who will receive his comeuppance sooner than he may think.

[lastparker]

RIP Elizabeth, a VERY good woman.  May your children find strength....what a sad time for them to lose their Mother.

[whiffleball]

Prayers and sincerest condolences to her family.  I feel for those children.  All the money in the world will never be able to replace their Mother or repair the damage their Father did.  I hope the 3 of them can get some sort of peace in their lives.

[USA4ME]

Wow, the media had just said she had a few weeks.......condolences to the family.

I had an idea when it was announced that she was on the verge.  They did it at the last second to keep the media from hounding her, and I can't blame them for that.  Besides, the announcement was made when they called the family in, which was part of the story.  Even John was there.

Didn't agree with her politically, of course, but she seemed nice enough.  My only beef was during the 2008 campaign she knew John was a cheat and that his life was a lie but kept quiet about it.  On some level I understand, but that also tells me power was more important to them than honesty.

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[Ptarmigan]

Not to sound all high and mighty but I don't understand extramarital affairs period.

Same here.

[seabelle]

Hot Air:

http://hotair.com/archives/2010/12/07/elizabeth-edwards-dies/

[debk]

Rest in peace Elizabeth, I hope you are reunited with your son.

God Bless her children and family.







My children's step-mother has been dealing with breast cancer for a couple of years, and thought she was going to be ok. Day after Thanksgiving, spots were found on her liver. Last week, she had an MRI and there are 15 spots. Finding out that Elizabeth Edwards' cancer had moved to her liver has been very difficult for them. That Elizabeth passed so quickly, has been a devastating blow. Please add J to your prayers, along with all women who suffer from this horrendous disease.

[IassaFTots]

Oh Deb.  Prayers up for J and the kids.  I have been holding in my heart my breast cancer survivors.  I know that has to be a blow.  I have witnessed 4  masectomies in the last year, ranging in age from 40 to 80.  God Bless.

[PatriotGame]

Rest in peace Elizabeth, I hope you are reunited with your son.

God Bless her children and family.







My children's step-mother has been dealing with breast cancer for a couple of years, and thought she was going to be ok. Day after Thanksgiving, spots were found on her liver. Last week, she had an MRI and there are 15 spots. Finding out that Elizabeth Edwards' cancer had moved to her liver has been very difficult for them. That Elizabeth passed so quickly, has been a devastating blow. Please add J to your prayers, along with all women who suffer from this horrendous disease.

My goodness debk...I hope the best for step-mother, you, and family. When confronted with my own mortality, my head will probably explode.

It is a sad statement whereas our political beliefs can make US hate our brothers so much...

[Boudicca]

Rest in peace Elizabeth, I hope you are reunited with your son.

God Bless her children and family.







My children's step-mother has been dealing with breast cancer for a couple of years, and thought she was going to be ok. Day after Thanksgiving, spots were found on her liver. Last week, she had an MRI and there are 15 spots. Finding out that Elizabeth Edwards' cancer had moved to her liver has been very difficult for them. That Elizabeth passed so quickly, has been a devastating blow. Please add J to your prayers, along with all women who suffer from this horrendous disease.

Prayers for J and all cancer sufferers, and anyone who is hurting physically or mentally.

Exceptions to this would be killers like that 14-year old Mexican boy and the illegal alien who beat his girlfriend's son to death.  In a perfect world, all the terrible diseases would go to scum like these and good, decent human beings would be healthy.

[shadow creature]

her only claim to fame is she married a human dog.

[Ptarmigan]

Prayers for J and all cancer sufferers, and anyone who is hurting physically or mentally.

Exceptions to this would be killers like that 14-year old Mexican boy and the illegal alien who beat his girlfriend's son to death.  In a perfect world, all the terrible diseases would go to scum like these and good, decent human beings would be healthy.

Agreed to that. It should be all evil figures too. Cough Osama bin Laden! Cough Joran van der Sloot! Cough Elisa Baker!

[crockspot]

She was too good a woman for that POS husband of hers. I'm sorry she had to put up with him while she battled cancer. My condolences to her children. To John, eff off... I'm sure you are off effing some babe tonight anyway.

[NHSparky]

She definitely deserved better, but made the most of what she had.

Class and grace, indeed.  God speed, Elizabeth.

[Splashdown]

RIP

[debk]

Oh Deb.  Prayers up for J and the kids.  I have been holding in my heart my breast cancer survivors.  I know that has to be a blow.  I have witnessed 4  masectomies in the last year, ranging in age from 40 to 80.  God Bless.

Thanks to all for their prayers.

She is my ex's wife #3. They were HS sweethearts, broke up before he started med school. ( I met him half way through and we married upon his graduation). They met up again 5 yrs ago in AZ, realized they were still in love with each other, he came home and divorced wife #2 (she already was), both moved back to NE and got married 5 yrs ago this month.

She was diagnosed with breast cancer almost 3 yrs ago. Had a double mastectomy, went through chemo, had reconstruction, and they found a "spot" on her spine last summer that was treated with radiation and went away. The checkup the day after Thanksgiving was just a routine followup. The spots weren't on her liver 3 months ago.

While I can't say a whole lot of good things about my ex...it still makes my heart hurt, to see two people who have finally found each other again, are both finally happy, to have something so tragic happen.

I talked to my daughter this morning, and Elizabeth's death so soon after being told the cancer was in her liver....is really hitting them all hard. Just as I'm sure it is, for so many women who are in the midst of breast cancer treatment and even those who are in recovery. There's something about breast cancer, that it seems to frequently come back in the liver....M's mother's came back there, and she only lasted 6 wks when it did. She had been "cancer-free" for over 5 years. One never knows just how long the recovery will last. It's not fair.

This will sound like a bouncy, but it isn't....
I saw a young mother last week, in line with me, at a store picking up her kids' layaway Christmas presents. She had one child with her, a toddler - maybe 3 or so - she was wearing a sweatshirt with a pink ribbon on it. She was telling another customer that she was in the middle of chemo and had already had surgery. She was sooo young. The woman in front of me, about my age or maybe a bit older, was watching her talk. As the young woman left the store, we both watched her leave. I turned around and said to the other woman - "that's so sad, she is so very young." Then I noticed her shirt...."Fight like a girl!" in pink with pink boxing gloves. And I said, Oh! and she said "yeah".....  We both teared up a bit. The whole incident just pointed out - yet again - that cancer doesn't discriminate....it can attack anyone. 

All the money going into breast cancer research....why can't they find a cure? 

[littlelamb]

My mom has been in remission for almost a year. I felt so sad when I heard about Elizabeth Edwards I felt so bad for her children may she rest in peace

[IassaFTots]

Thanks to all for their prayers.


All the money going into breast cancer research....why can't they find a cure? 

To quote Flame, "Cancer is a sucking suckfest."

[ConservativeMobster]

My sympathy to your ex and his wife, those are 2 very sad stories.  I work in a cytology dept in a large hospital and I could tell you so many more....thankfully I don't have to intimately know most of these people newly diagnosed or I'm not sure I could work here. It helps that I can keep a clinical perspective, not a personal one.

<<All the money going into breast cancer research....why can't they find a cure? >>

Often wondered this myself and I almost feel like it is too lucrative a disease for some docs.  There has been some remarkable advances in treatment and diagnostics, but it will never be enough to stop the disease IMO.

I just lost my sister to lung cancer and have done a lot of introspective thinking on these issues.  And trying to cope and help my parents deal with the fact that some people are just given a "terminal" result because of the type of cancer or stage when it's found.

My advice is get screening, go for the most agressive treatment (with breast), keep your immune system and over all health in top shape.....and pray.  Cancer is us, our cells gone haywire for whatever reason and I don't have much faith in science ever stopping it.

[delilahmused]

She wanted so badly to hang on until her children were older. Politics aside, she was an amazing woman, a fighter and a devoted mother.

Cindie

[debk]

My sympathy to your ex and his wife, those are 2 very sad stories.  I work in a cytology dept in a large hospital and I could tell you so many more....thankfully I don't have to intimately know most of these people newly diagnosed or I'm not sure I could work here. It helps that I can keep a clinical perspective, not a personal one.

<<All the money going into breast cancer research....why can't they find a cure? >>

Often wondered this myself and I almost feel like it is too lucrative a disease for some docs.  There has been some remarkable advances in treatment and diagnostics, but it will never be enough to stop the disease IMO.

I just lost my sister to lung cancer and have done a lot of introspective thinking on these issues.  And trying to cope and help my parents deal with the fact that some people are just given a "terminal" result because of the type of cancer or stage when it's found.

My advice is get screening, go for the most agressive treatment (with breast), keep your immune system and over all health in top shape.....and pray.  Cancer is us, our cells gone haywire for whatever reason and I don't have much faith in science ever stopping it.

Having been married to a urologist through his residency at Univ of Virginia (general surgery) and Duke Univ (urology)....I don't think there will ever be a true cure for cancer.

Oh, treatments will change, and new medicines will be developed....but cure it? Never!!!

Cancer is a cash cow for doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical and insurance(cancer policies) companies.

Each new medicine "cure" costs more than the previous one.

Doctors and hospitals make fortunes off of cancer patients.

The insurance companies make lots of money off of those who never get cancer.

Cancer, like the common cold....will never, ever...be cured.

 

[BEG]

Having been married to a urologist through his residency at Univ of Virginia (general surgery) and Duke Univ (urology)....I don't think there will ever be a true cure for cancer.

Oh, treatments will change, and new medicines will be developed....but cure it? Never!!!

Cancer is a cash cow for doctors, hospitals, pharmaceutical and insurance(cancer policies) companies.

Each new medicine "cure" costs more than the previous one.

Doctors and hospitals make fortunes off of cancer patients.

The insurance companies make lots of money off of those who never get cancer.

Cancer, like the common cold....will never, ever...be cured.

 

I'm sorry to get a little snotty but I take exception to your view of doctors who treat cancer. My cousin is the director for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Survivorship Program.  He has spent his whole life treating children with cancer, researching cancer and volunteered for hospice. He is one of the best people I know.  He volunteers a lot of time and money for kids with cancer and has dedicated his life to find a cure. 

[debk]

I'm sorry to get a little snotty but I take exception to your view of doctors who treat cancer. My cousin is the director for the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center Survivorship Program.  He has spent his whole life treating children with cancer, researching cancer and volunteered for hospice. He is one of the best people I know.  He volunteers a lot of time and money for kids with cancer and has dedicated his life to find a cure. 

You can be "snotty" and "take exception" all you want, BEG.

However, the reality is still that cancer is a incredibly expensive disease...regardless of who is making the money. Whether it's the doctor, the hospital, the drug companies.

They all make money from cancer. As does your cousin, unless he has the directorship minus a salary. My ex has taken care of cancer patients since 1974...adults and children.  He has had papers published in medical journals, on urologic surgical procedures for cancer patients, while he was in residency...and while he didn't get much of a salary, while at Duke, he did get paid then and he gets paid now. He gets paid, because it's his job.

Just because any of those entities make money from cancer does not make any single one of them evil.

Without any of them.....the doctors, the hospitals, the drug companies....people would just die sooner, because they have no chance whatsoever of beating the disease without those entities....unless a miracle happens for a specific individual.

But cancer continues to change. And while a cure might have been found for one particular type of cancer in one particular part of the body.....and another one might be found tomorrow.

As of this moment, cancer is a disease that has not been eradicated from this earth.

Until it has been, and no one we love and care about, or don't even know....no longer has to suffer and/or die from this disease...then there is no cure for cancer.

In the meantime....doctors, hospitals, and drug companies will continue to make money - a lot of money - from the disease...because cancer is a very very very expensive disease.

[BEG]

You can be "snotty" and "take exception" all you want, BEG.

However, the reality is still that cancer is a incredibly expensive disease...regardless of who is making the money. Whether it's the doctor, the hospital, the drug companies.

They all make money from cancer. As does your cousin, unless he has the directorship minus a salary. My ex has taken care of cancer patients since 1974...adults and children.  He has had papers published in medical journals, on urologic surgical procedures for cancer patients, while he was in residency...and while he didn't get much of a salary, while at Duke, he did get paid then and he gets paid now. He gets paid, because it's his job.

Just because any of those entities make money from cancer does not make any single one of them evil.

Without any of them.....the doctors, the hospitals, the drug companies....people would just die sooner, because they have no chance whatsoever of beating the disease without those entities....unless a miracle happens for a specific individual.

But cancer continues to change. And while a cure might have been found for one particular type of cancer in one particular part of the body.....and another one might be found tomorrow.

As of this moment, cancer is a disease that has not been eradicated from this earth.

Until it has been, and no one we love and care about, or don't even know....no longer has to suffer and/or die from this disease...then there is no cure for cancer.

In the meantime....doctors, hospitals, and drug companies will continue to make money - a lot of money - from the disease...because cancer is a very very very expensive disease.

So my cousin has to work for free to be genuinely fighting cancer?  Sorry if I took your post wrong, I am on mucinex d right now and feel a little loopy.

[debk]

So my cousin has to work for free to be genuinely fighting cancer?  Sorry if I took your post wrong, I am on mucinex d right now and feel a little loopy.

Yes...you have taken both posts wrong.

No, your cousin does not have to work for free to be genuinely fighting cancer. I'm not sure how you even came to that conclusion.

However...I'm out of this particular discussion with you.

Hope you feel better soon...