"Ready for Another Tough Campaign"...WP on Elizabeth Edwards. Nice tribute.

[madfloridian]

Her Cancer Back, Elizabeth Edwards Remains Open and Upbeat

Not once did the shadow of fear cross her face. Elizabeth Edwards stood before the nation, a graceful fighter steeled for personal tragedy again. The cancer is back and in her bones, a lung and possibly elsewhere. The news seemed worse than bad. Yet Edwards conveyed no hint of being hobbled by an incurable cancer. Self-pity was nowhere on the scene.

"Is this a hardship for us? Yes, it's yet another hurdle," she said. "But I've seen people who are in real desperate shape who don't, first of all, have the wonderful support that I have and have no place to turn."

She appeared relaxed, fully in command of the public space she occupied as she couched her health status in the most optimistic terms possible, saying of her marriage, "We're going to always look for the silver lining. It is who we are as people, and we'll continue to do it."

John and Elizabeth Edwards stood together, a battle-tested couple once again meeting the public. Both lawyers, they have lived a life of prosperity and good fortune but also suffered devastating loss. Their firstborn, Wade, died at 16 in a 1996 car accident. In 2004, at the end of her husband's vice presidential campaign, she received a diagnosis of breast cancer. And now, in the midst of his campaign for the presidency, comes news of her cancer's recurrence.

[Southsideirish]

1. I didn't hear her say it was in her lung and "elsewhere" - she said it was only

in one place - in the rib opposite the one she cracked while lifting the lamp. I don't get it.

[Gloria]

2. Later stories quote her doctor as saying there is something on the

lung that has to be confirmed, one way or the other....