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Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 9000
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 23, 2007 - 09:58 am: | 
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You may have already heard or read Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards’ wife Elizabeth has cancer...again. And word is her cancer is treatable, but not curable (which seems to me a doctor’s benign way of saying She’s a GONER!!).
John has decided to continue his campaign.
@ Given the great physical, mental and emotion toll a presidential campaign has family, you think it wise for Edwards to continue?
@ You think he’s thinking/hoping to use his wife illness to score a mass of SYMPATHY votes?
@ If so, you think that’ll WORK? |
Yvettep
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Post Number: 1805
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 23, 2007 - 11:06 am: |
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From what I understand about her condition, it is not so much that she is "terminal" but that her cancer will become a chronic condition similar to diabetes. She could probably, then, live to a ripe old age with the proper monitoring and on-going care.
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Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 9001
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 23, 2007 - 11:30 am: |
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Yvettep,
I'm NO medical professional. But I've never heard of 'chronic' cancer. It's always been my understanding that malignancies that are not cured or driven into remission eventually kill you. |
Yvettep
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Post Number: 1807
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Votes: 1 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 23, 2007 - 11:38 am: |
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Not so these days, ABM. There are many cancers that are basically "chronic" in that with proper treatment and monitoring, people can "live with" the disease as oppose to "die from" it. Here is something on NPR that I heard yesterday that explains it well: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=9083537 |
Mzuri
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Username: Mzuri
Post Number: 4145
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 23, 2007 - 12:24 pm: |
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I think that a person's calling to be president would be greater than that of being a mere spouse. As to him using his wife's cancer to call press conferences, etc., I think it's a shameless and tacky way to draw attention to himself. We already knew she had (or had, had) cancer, so it wasn't earth-shattering news that she had a recurrence, or that it spread or whatever. My personal feeling is that those health matters should be kept private, but it's obvious that these two users will stoop to any level to gain publicity, sympathy, attention, air time or whatever. If the woman dropped dead today he'd probably use that as a photo-op to announce that he doesn't have time to grieve because he's too busy campaigning which is exactly why Edwards is another schmoe that won't be our next president.
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Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 9007
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 23, 2007 - 02:18 pm: |
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Yvettep,
Per: Dr. Ray Pritchard
Author, Speaker, President of Keep Believing Ministries
Why John Edwards Stays in the Race
"Yesterday the world learned that Elizabeth Edwards' cancer has returned. What started in late 2004 as breast cancer and then went into remission, has come back, this time as cancer in the ribcage. The condition is treatable but not curable. Put simply, this means that, barring a miracle or some unforeseen accident or a new medical breakthrough, Elizabeth Edwards will die of cancer. She is terminal though she is not in the terminal stages of this horrible disease."
http://www.crosswalk.com/blogs/pritchard/11532306/ |
Yvettep
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Post Number: 1809
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 23, 2007 - 03:41 pm: |
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Dr. Ray Pritchard, Author, Speaker, President of Keep Believing Ministries
???? Okay, ABM, if Dr. Pritchard says so! LOL I stand by my statement. Some cancers are now being treated as more chronic than accute conditions. Even if folks eventually die from them, many can still live long, relatively healthy lives with the right kind of care.
Whether anyone thinks this is cause for John Edwards to drop out of the presidential race or not is a different story. We are all "terminal"--life is a terminal condition. But the idea that all cancer is an automatic death sentence is no longer a widely accepted one in the medical community or by cancer advocacy groups.
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Tonya
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Post Number: 4980
Registered: 07-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 23, 2007 - 03:49 pm: |
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To me they both came across as warriors...John Edwards as a leader, and she as a cancer survivor.
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Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 9009
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 23, 2007 - 04:02 pm: |
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Yvettep,
What I've heard and read about what's going on is that not only has Elizabeth's cancer spread it's spreading to such a degree they don't fully know how much of her body it now inhabits.
This woman was suppose to have been remission of the cancer as recently as 2 years ago. Yet in such a short period of times, it's already defied her prior treatment and, again, is spreading.
And Elizabeth looks like she's aged +15 years since her husband first started to make a run at the 2004 presidental election.
I'm no oncologist or anything. But, babe, it does NOT look good. |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 7977
Registered: 01-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 23, 2007 - 04:18 pm: |
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I agree with Yvette and Tonya, and I'm sure it's much better for Elizabeth's morale to continue her normal routine and to be at her husband's side in his quest for the presidency, instead of retiring from public life and retreating into a death watch. Furthermore, having a positive attitude is a great weapon against the battle with chronic cancer. She's is also taking this opportunity to be an inspiration to other women and I'm sure it is at her insistence that her husband is staying in the race. |
Enchanted
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Post Number: 695
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 23, 2007 - 05:35 pm: |
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bone cancer is a death sentence she's agoner and how can he concentrate on politics? |
Cynique
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Username: Cynique
Post Number: 7982
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 23, 2007 - 05:39 pm: |
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She doesn't have bone cancer. Her breast cancer has metasticized to her ribs and there is a difference. Bone cancer per se is a different classification in the carcinoma family. |
Abm
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Username: Abm
Post Number: 9012
Registered: 04-2004
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 23, 2007 - 06:03 pm: |
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Elizabeth Edwards 3 years ago:
Elizabeth Edwards now:
What's that they say about a picture being worth a THOUSAND words? |
Cynique
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Post Number: 7986
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Votes: 2 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 23, 2007 - 06:20 pm: |
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This from somebody whose favorite explanation for any picture that looks good is that it's been air-brushed. |
Urban_scribe
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Post Number: 386
Registered: 05-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 23, 2007 - 08:39 pm: |
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Well, if nothing else, John Edwards has won the sympathy vote hands down. I'd like to see the other presidential hopefuls top this. |
Doberman23
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Post Number: 910
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Friday, March 23, 2007 - 10:48 pm: |
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red beans and rice didn't miss her ... anyways, she could be two breaths from calling her final time-out in the game of life or healthy as olympic gymnist and edawrds still won't win. ... well maybe he can win a vice presidency spot. |
Chrishayden
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Post Number: 3957
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 24, 2007 - 10:13 am: |
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Well, if nothing else, John Edwards has won the sympathy vote hands down. I'd like to see the other presidential hopefuls top this.
It's an excellent move--great strategy. she'll get the Cancer vote and the Oprah vote. Obama and Hillary just went in the toilet. They may as well line up behind Edwards.
She's just gotta hold off dying until the election is over. |
Mzuri
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Post Number: 4150
Registered: 01-2006
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Votes: 0 (Vote!) | | Posted on Saturday, March 24, 2007 - 12:25 pm: |
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I don't think the American people have much sympathy these days, and so I doubt if very many people are going to cast any sympathy votes. People are going to vote for who they think can improve this suck-ass economy and bring our soldiers home from Iraq and Afghanistan.
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