Posted: 11/4/2004 12:56:12 PM EDT
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Not trying to start a party here - but this bitch was publically encouraging riots if Kerry lost prior to the actual election. F----- her......I feel sad for normal people with cancer - I do not feel sad for her. Edwards' Wife Has Breast Cancer Thursday, November 04, 2004 PHOTOS Click image to enlarge STORIES LINKS • Elizabeth Edwards' Type of Cancer, Treatments Options • Elizabeth Edwards Stumps on Rural Issues • Transcript: Elizabeth, Cate Edwards • Elizabeth Edwards: 'Sweetest Man' • Elizabeth Edwards Stops in Tennessee • Mrs. Edwards Plans for Iowa Visit WASHINGTON — Elizabeth Edwards, wife of former Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards, was diagnosed with breast cancer the day her husband and Sen. John Kerry conceded the presidential race. Spokesman David Ginsberg said Mrs. Edwards, 55, discovered a lump in her right breast while on a campaign trip last week. Her family doctor told her Friday that it appeared to be cancerous and advised her to see a specialist w hen she could. She put off the appointment until Wednesday so as not to miss campaign time. The Edwards family went straight to Massachusetts General Hospital (search) from Boston's Faneuil Hall after Kerry and Edwards conceded on Wednesday. Mrs. Edwards had a needle biopsy performed at the hospital, where Dr. Barbara Smith confirmed the cancer, Ginsberg said. He said the cancer was diagnosed as invasive ductal cancer (search). That is the most common type of breast cancer, and can spread from the milk ducts to other parts of the breast or beyond. More tests were being done to determine how far the cancer has advanced and how to treat it, he said. Ginsberg said spirits are high at the Edwards household. "Everybody feels good about it, that this is beatable," he said. Edwards, who leaves his North Carolina Senate seat in January, said in a statement, "Elizabeth is as strong a person as I've ever known. Together, our family will beat this." The American Cancer Society (search) estimated that nearly 216,000 American women will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year. Treatments have been getting better. The current five-year survival rate for breast cancer is 87 percent, up from 78 percent in the mid-1980s. About 40,000 women die of breast cancer annually. Overall, the society says about one in seven women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime. Invasive ductal cancer accounts for 65 percent to 80 percent of all breast cancers, according to the Merck Manual of Medical Information (search). Treatment usually begins with surgery, according to the National Cancer Institute (search). This could involve removal of the cancer itself and usually nearby lymph nodes. Lumpectomy, just removing the cancerous mass, is becoming more common, though sometimes removal of the whole breast is done. Surgery can be followed by chemotherapy, radiation or hormone therapy. Radiation can focus on a cancer site from a machine outside the body or use a radioactive substance placed near the cancer in "seeds" or via needle. Chemotherapy uses drugs that can stop or slow the growth of cancer that may have spread. Hormone therapy removes or blocks hormones that can encourage growth of cancer cells. In early stages of cancer a combination of the drug tamoxifen and hormone therapy is commonly used, the Cancer Institute reports. The Edwardses married in 1977. They have two daughters, Cate and Emma Claire and a son, Jack. Son Wade died in a 1996 traffic accident. Mrs. Edwards, born in Jacksonville, Fla., grew up hopscotching between the United States and Japan. She met her future husband at University of North Carolina law school. She juggled a successful legal career and family for 19 years. Then — stunned by Wade's death — she quit work to have more children at an age when many contemporaries were easing toward grandmotherhood. On the campaign, she dubbed herself the "anti-Barbie," a quick-witted, down-to-earth political wife who connected particularly well with mothers and fathers. |
She is still a human being and this type of pain&suffering is not to be wished upon others. Sorry, your sentiment is more fitting with the DUhland bunch and is a  to ARfcom.My 2¢, wganz ¶ |
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I just remember a lot of the things she said - which make it clear she is a Hillary wanna-be.....If Hillary had AIDS - I would throw a party - some people werent meant to be concieved. Maybe Mrs. Edwards is a wonderful misguided Million Mom March soccer mom.......but I wont be sending flowers while she's in the hospital. I don't expect some socialists to send my flowers if I ever develop a debilitating disease or illness. Maybe I am cruel - I am normally a compassionate person - but compassion is earned - not randomly handed out to everyone on earth. I don't feel compassion for murderers, or rapists, or other common thugs. I don't feel compassion for politicians who attempt to deprive me of my Constitutional rights - nor do I feel compassion for their spouses when their spouses advocate armed revolution in the even of a Republican win. I will not be hugging any jackbooted Feminazis anytime soon. I'll just let life give them what they deserve - misery. And I'll leave it at that. I came into this world already denied of certain unalienable rights because of rights we already have lost. One's "politics" is no excuse. The Nazis didnt get a waiver for being Nazis - it was just politics - right? Evil is evil - and I can't throw out compassion to someone who would stab me in the back as soon as I turn to walk away. I have the utmost sympathy for people suffering from illness or disease. I do not have compassion for those who have made their entire life at eroding my rights. Even if she is a spouse - she has done more then her part trying to destroy the rights of regular Americans. I'm trying to find some level of sadness or remorse - but its not there. I have had several family members die of cancer - its very sad - no question. |
I don't know what it is. I just pray that God's will is done. If He intends for her to die of this, then so be it. If not, likewise. But no Christian should wish death upon another for something so relatively trivial in God's eyes as political differences, IMO. |
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"They CARE about our country just like you do".....No disrespect to you personally but I beg to differ........maybe the brainwashed sheeple watching Oprah on TV - maybe they care and are too damn stupid to know better or to actually pick up a book, learn how to read - learn how to have their OWN beliefs. They are force fed everything they believe. But the wife of one America's most powerful senators? I'm "sure" she is naive like everyone else. She does NOT care about my country - otherwise she would not be so adamant in furthering her husbands and John Kerry's aims like she does. Being a "supportive spouse" doesnt cut it here. She has a lot of power in her own realm. And power corrupts. She may not be Al Queda - but she sure as hell would ruin our lives by force feeding her own immoral agenda were she to have the chance. It is inherently dangerous to right off politcs as "politics". In today's modern society, politics is often one persons attempt to force their own ideology down the throat of another - sometimes with seriously damaging effects. Every major conflict this century and the 20th century started out with "politics". Politics is not the world series - its far deeper then that. Its us being free to live as we choose versus us being led to live as some socialist scumbag would have it. Rant mode off - I have no sympathy for socialists. While were at it, is Yassar Arafat dead already? He's going to hell. And no I will not pray for Yasser Arafat. He can't buy his soul back. |
| you know what I find Ironic - here is kerry/edwards the morning of Nov. 2nd sitting and watching the [fake] early poll results and feeling pretty good. Theresa was probrobly on the internet picking out her china pattern. The daughters were dreaming of which room they were going to fuck in first. And then Bam they lose the election. Then Bam Liz Edwards gets Cancer. And pretty soon Bam! We all find out why Kerry got an other than honorable discharge later pardoned by peanut man. One minute you are on top of the world and the next minute you aren't. |
+1 - she should be in our prayers. |
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I hate those who would take our guns and who would aborogate the Bill of Rights to do that. I have great feeling for those who come down with cancer. I had a long battle with cancer, its cure, and trying to survive not only cancer, but the cure for cancer. I can remember the day I was diagnosed with the disease and how it felt like a death sentance. This is after all, THE disease that kills you. After leaving the doctors office, I went to a theatre and watched three movies in a row. I didn't want to think, just to watch. After the initial surgery, the cancer recurred like clockwork: about every two to three months it was back again. That meant chemo, immunotherapy, surgery, or a combination of those about three or four times a year. Each course of chemotherapy was a series of six treatments. Each successive treatment left me feeling more sick. My resistance must have been down as it seemed to open the door to other conditions too. Finally, it reached a point where it was major surgery and organ removal or die. I chose the surgery and had a long recovery. There were complications later that could have killed me. It just seemed to go on and on and on. I do not tell you this for sympathy, but to give you a perspective: You may live through cancer, but your body and your life will never be the same. We do not agree with the Edwards and some of the things that they represent. We oppose them, we stand up for our civil rights, and we work for the best interests of America as a whole. But that does not mean that we need conduct ourselves in an insensitive manner. Have compassion for her and send a prayer her way. |
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all of you who think in the same vein, come here and ask for sympathy when your mother, wife, or daughter has breast cancer. don't forget to reference this post. i swear, for every one decent gunowner there's a thousand otherwise. posts like this make it 100 times more difficult for me to convert anti's. my only hope is that the demented, inhuman posts here come from the young because i can forgive youthful ignorance masquerading as education, opinion, or bravado. if you're above 25 and still post crap like this topic or agree with it please reconsider. a baby can't help shitting itself. you can. |