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Update: From the comments: Thank you, Jane. And all the commenters here. You all inspire us. Now, back to work. -- Elizabeth Edwards
I was discussing the prospects for the Edwards campaign this morning with some friends after hearing the rumor that following the press conference, Edwards still had a full schedule booked. Someone mentioned that if in fact Elizabeth's cancer had returned, it didn't mean that Edwards would necessarily drop out -- he might elect to stay in the race anyway. She might want him to.
"That's what I'd do," I said.
It would be perfectly understandable if she did want him to drop out -- it can't be easy watching your husband take cheap shots like this (published, in truly horrible taste, today of all days. Everyone knew as of yesterday that something like this was probably coming). All I can say was that it was really important to me to stay in the game following my surgery, to know that this "thing" hadn't beaten me and I had a life that it was not going to derail. Even though Christy, Marcy, Pach, Swopa, Jeralyn and Arianna practically had to prop me up and my brainpower was marginal when I was in DC, I was at the Libby trial. Every. Single. Day. I needed to know, for myself, that even though accomodations had to be made, I was still living my life on my terms. I fully understand why Elizabeth made the decision she did. I can't know what it's like to be in her shoes -- her cancer is now incurable, but treatable, which must be really, really scary -- but I like to think I would've had the courage to do the same thing. It's awfully brave.
Elizabeth has always been really supportive. She called me the day before my surgery in January to wish me luck. It meant a lot. I wish her the best of luck as well. The willingness to fight, to not back down in the face of the disease, even when the stress level must be extraordinarily toxic, is worthy of tremendous admiration and certainly bodes well for her continued well being. For me personally, and for all women who face what she is facing, she is an extraordinary role model.
And to all those who will undoubtably be callow enough to claim that Edwards is exploiting his wife's cancer for political gain? Don't turn your back, because the daggers will fly. And that's a promise.
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Fitz!
Best wishes Elizabeth Edwards. Thanks for your perspective on this Jane.
May God bless the Edwards family.
“And to all those who will undoubtably be callow enough to claim that Edwards is exploiting his wife’s cancer for political gain? Don’t turn your back, because the daggars will fly. And that’s a promise.”
Indeed. At the first callous or noxious comment, we should be at the throat of the culprit.
I watched the Edwards press conference. Elizabeth was cheerful, optimistic, determined, and full of spirit and courage. What a woman! John Edwards is very lucky to have such a terrific companion and partner.
Right behind you with my dagger drawn…
I just called his campaign headquarters and wished them all the best. I don’t know a lot about him but he is so refreshing after listening to all the
BS coming at us 25/7 from beyond the beltway. He seems to be a stand up guy and I like him. And the best to you also Jane
Go Elizabeth and John! The country REALLY needs you!
Best wishes and all prayers to the Edwards’ family…
Damn straight.
Well said
All of it
My mother had a long history fighting cancer
As a result, I have a good understanding of what Elizabeth is facing
Such courage and determination are admirable, and…
the most effective way to fight.
It is refreshing to see genuine ‘family values’, patriotisn, courage and determination.
What a remarkable news conference!! I loved Elizabeth’s description of the chain of “coincidences” that revealed the second occurence and her determination that she and John will go forward as before. Best to them and their family!
that was an inspiring press conference. what courageous people.
Jane, none of us would have had it any other way. As for the Edwards’ family, they are in thoughts and prayers today for a whole lot of folks. Elizabeth is not just feisty, she’s a kick ass woman, and she’ll beat this back just like she has everything else.
Just like you do, Jane. :)
Quzi @ 9
Fitz for AG under President Edwards.
A silver lining from this is the demonstration of support for the Edwards candidacy. A lot of people who haven’t endorsed spoke about how seriously they are taking Edwards. It shows the media is focused on their pet peeves and not on what is going on in the campaigns.
I, too, admire the Edwards and wish them the best.
On a personal note, I have a condition which causes me to be ill every once in a while. Nothing life-threatening, just a nuisance condition that keeps me in bed occasionally. My co-workers know now that I don’t want to be asked how I feel. I want to ignore it, forget it and not let it interfere with living.
So, Elizabeth, I understand why you are refusing to let this interfere with your dreams and I will be praying for you.
light a candle for can-do Elizabeth.
Thanks Jane.
You and Elizabeth are really remarkable women and my best wishes and thanks are extended to you.
The millions of others who travel this scary road draw strength from your example.
Wishing Elizabeth every positive force in the universe.
anyone contacting the Chicago Tribune on their very snotty column? how much bad taste must these guys possess?
Warmest thoughts to both Elizabeth and Jane today. So grateful for all you give us.
Shallow snipes like Kathleen Parker seem to be trapped in high school. Like the man says, Why can’t we have a better press corps?
Amen Jane.
I actually think that’s one of the blessings about having cancer (I can say this because I’m four years removed from the poisonous chemicals they’re pumping you full of now–I’m sure if the tubes were still in my arm, I’d say, “Blessings?!?!?!”). It raises the stakes for living life on your own terms.
Kudos to the Edwards for living their lives like they mean it.
Tough I don’t seem to remember propping you up. Must have been the week I was gone?
John Edwards:
Immediately fire all paid “consultants” and just listen to Elizabeth and yourself, and you got another sure vote here, and an active campaigner!
Betty Ford and Nancy Reagan had breast cancer while in the White House.
Other first ladies suffered from epileptic fits…or seizure disorders…during State dinners.
I think Elizabeth Edwards will be an asset as a First Lady with cancer. Think of the focus on better health care for ALL!
Elizabeth, LIVE your life.
My email to Kathlee Parker @ the Trib
Way to go Kathleen.
While the mainstream media is busy reflecting on Edwards’ vanity and tripping over their own feet getting the story wrong on his candidacy, the Edwardses managed to communicate total genuine cojncern for each other and the nation in todays press conference.
In the future, I suggest that you confine your commentary and ‘analysis’ to video game consoles and avoid matters of substance.
Jane,
As usual you find a silver lining in every cloud…as does Elizabeth. You both are an inspiration to all. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Family Values a Reality. Thank you Edwards Family and Jane.
My best wishes to Elizabeth and her family. I have never met John or Elizabeth, but John is a very distant cousin and from the same town as my grandmother, so I feel an affinity toward them.
My father and I saw her speak late last year when she was in Northern California about her book and her fight with cancer. Two weeks after seeing her talk, my father was diagnosed with cancer. He is doing very well now, but I think Elizabeth is an inspiration to everyone fighting cancer. She is so honest and never loses her spirit or sense of humor. God bless her.
((((Elizabeth & Family))))
That ChiTrib piece was fucking disgusting.
How you doing today Jane?
Treatable is the operative word. (I’m not sure what curable means for breast cancer or any other disease..life is an incurable condition.) As I posted in the last thread, my aunt lived with incurable breast cancer for >25 years; it finally killed her last month at age 91. Two weeks before her death she still had a full social schedule. Attitude is a huge factor, Jane, Elizabeth and many others show the way.
OT, sorry.
If anyone doubts Carol Lam was sacked for investigating corruption, check out this article that DIRECTLY connects Cheney AND Bush to Bajagua, a corrupt water treatment deal in Lam’s District. Lam and the House Committee on Standards of Official Conduct were both asked to investigate Bajagua on March 1, 2006, the DAY BEFORE the Senate approved the USA Patriot Improvement Act. Did I mention that Duke Cunningham, who plead guilty on November 28, 2005–two weeks before the USAttorney bit was added to the bill in committee–was also involved in the deal? Hmmm. I WONDER why they wanted her gone?
Best Wishes to Elizabeth and John…
Also to you too Jane…
I was reading your post and what you say serves notice to us all to live our lives each day to the fullest especially in the face of the most difficult of circumstances….
Thanks Jane, I understand entirely what you mean about getting back to your own life.
I was surprised to find myself bursting into tears at the initial conference, then so reassured and impressed at their committment.
Good News: tried to contribute immediately and the site is overloaded. Apparently lots of people who found out they really cared at the same time as me.
I’ve got the tv on in the other room, and it sounds like they had written their story this morning, and they’re sticking with it, despite the actual content of the announcement.
But I’m not watching or listening closely. Do I have that wrong?
Daggar my ass, I’ll rip open thier throat with my teeth
Best wishes to Elizabeth and John. As will be noted by many others here, you are in our thoughts and prayers. Take care and be well.
Jane, it’s often said [and is true] that it takes someone who’s been there to really understand. Your connection to Elizabeth, and hers to you is remarkable. Thank you for sharing.
As I noted on the prior thread, my husband and I also had a child die [22 years ago, at age 3]. It is, as one might imagine, an experience beyond description, and so I have a small piece of understanding for what the Edwards may have gone through.
I value your thoughts and postings. My — well, not exactly “prayers”, but “karmic messages” perhaps — go with you and Elizabeth, and with our country, which needs them.
I’ve spent the morning since the presser reading about metastatic bone cancer. Anybody who thinks these two are being anything more than the utmost of brave, or are using this for political purposes, is nuts. This is very serious s**t.
OldCoastie @
22
Yep, just sent that hack an email.
I did have the good fortune to see John and Elizabeth at rallies and functions here in NH during the campaign.
They are genuinely mesmerizing and captivating in person.
elizabeth is an inspiration. john is lucky to have her. i add my best wishes and prayers to those of what i like to think is a countless army of them.
i agree, jane, that the worst repugs will be sniping mightily. they feed on this sort of personal trauma. that’s why we must call them out and show them for what they are.
jane, never doubt that you too are an inspiration. and a blessing.
ot: “WASHINGTON, March 22 — The Senate Judiciary Committee today authorized the issuing of subpoenas that would summon Karl Rove and several other top Bush administration officials to Capitol Hill to testify under oath about the dismissals of eight federal prosecutors.
“The step, taken on a voice vote of the committee, came a day after a House Judiciary subcommittee passed a similar measure.
“The Senate panel’s action appeared to make a constitutional confrontation between Congress and the White House more likely, at least for the moment, although some on the committee said there was still room for negotiation.”
I see no reason to wait until their backs are turned…
emptywheel @ 24
You were so busy doing your thing you didn’t notice me sleeping in the back or the media room, or hear me calling your name…
(dum de dum dum dum…don’t mind me…sitting here at the bad author detention center…)
There are many people floating around my universe right now with BC. To a one, they are strong, determined, and full of life.
Blessings to Elizabeth, to you, Jane, to Elka, and Joy (neither of which the FDL family knows). You have been our strength and we will do our best to be there should you need us to be yours.
emptywheel @ 24
Marcy - can you tell me what it means when folks say “incurable, but treatable”? I’m confused about that. . .
Mauimom—
I’m sorry about the loss of your child.
Bless you Elizabeth! Be good to yourself. Hope it all goes smoothly and don’t forget about second opinions in all aspects of your treatment. Peace to you & yours.
Jane, thanks for this post. When news like this comes out, all the scandals, lowlifes, and crooks who run this administration all seem so small. I supported John Edwards’ campaign from the beginning-even more so now. His wife, and he, personify the traits we want, and need, in our leaders.
I’m sending along a link that lovers of music, and life, may find interesting:
http://www.myspace.com/cinnamongirltribute
Elizabeth is an incredibly classy woman. I enjoyed meeting her briefly when she first published her book.
Best to her, to John and to the Edwards family. I think John is carrying on with their mission and I’ll wager that’s precisely what Elizabeth wants.
For them, I get the sense this campaign is bigger than them. I’m not endorsing any candidates here, just saying what I sense and see.
Just read that hit piece by Kathleen Parker. Good God. I was compelled to write her and let her know what I thought of her. I now consider this an open letter:
Kathleen,
Nice timing for your snarky hit piece on Edwards. Who cares how many time Edwards combs his hair before an appearance? GW Bush was filmed giving the finger to the camera before one of his. You know, Kathleen, I honestly prefer a primper to an out an out lying sack of arrogant crap who shows so much disrespect for others. The difference speaks volumes to me, but given the nature of political reporting in the “liberal media” I’m not surprised that writers like yourself gleefully pounce on yet another “Gore invented the Internet and wears khaki” type smear while screaming “LA-LA-LA, I CAN’T HEEEEEAAAAAR YOU!” as Bush sets out to systematically destroy us, one outrage at a time. All the while getting the kid glove, mint on the pillow treatment from the GOP excuse factory from the MSM.
Yep. Nice timing on the day Elizabeth Edwards announced her incurable status with her breast cancer. But then, I suppose writers like you will say John is trying to win by a hair on the pity vote.
By the way, I am an Obama supporter. But The Edwards’ deserve better than this. And so does America.
I lost my best friend in the whole world two years ago, I sat with him everyday while he fought his illness. He exhibited a courage and acceptance that was and is truly remarkable. I say this because I want you to know the gauge by which I say that Elizabeth and you Jane are very courageous and you have my complete admiration. What I saw today filled me with sorrow and that remembrance. I hope you don’t think I am just saying these words to listen to my head roar, I mean them and had to say them.
I can’t stand Kathleen Parker. I remember reading her editorials. She was the reason I stopped home delivery of the Tampa Tribune.
I got EPU’d last thread: OT: Help! The “o” key on my laptop at home doesn’t work. I can’t access my email because my provider has an “o” in it. Does anyone know what can be done and if I can replace it. It’s a toshiba. I’m at work now…..It sucks because I can’t even google anymore…
With Jane and, no doubt, Elizabeth, ready to take on all comers, woe to anybody who takes a cheap shot at Edwards for continuing the campaign.
For the second time today, I must comment on the juxtaposition of stories here. Christy discussed sick-wives-leaver Newt and the Edwards in the same post this morning. Now, I see a picture of Elizabeth Edwards just above one of Victoria Toensing. Talk about a study in contrasts.
Jane, your expression of compassion and good will for Elizabeth and John Edwards was on the mark. We,as women of” common history” pull our prayers and focus together to beat back the clouds and revel in the light. John and Elizabeth deserve their fair shot at their personal goals, and a hundred years more.
While the Parker piece is repreesible (I sent my comments) We need to let the editorial board have it, the determine the timing of publication, que no?
It’s the sad state of the media and some in this country today. John and Elizabeth were very impressive. They are true class.
Of the untold legions of women who suffer from this miserable malady, Jane is a shining beacon and an unstoppable voice among the many who:
Will.NOT.Surrender!
Jane Hamsher’s Flying Daggers…hmmm…ya’ll can take that to the bank!
Someone suggested on the last thread that I copy and paste an “o”. Thanks again.
Think about the strides that have been made in treating AIDS since the 80’s. We have not found a cure, but there are drug regimens that are keeping people going with a decent quality of life.
Interestingly, Drudge had the red headline today: Edwards suspends campaign. It has since been changed. Hm.
“And to all those who will undoubtably be callow enough to claim that Edwards is exploiting his wife’s cancer for political gain?”
Coulter, Hannity, and Limbaugh are preparing their “commentaries” as we speak.
egregious @ 48
Thank you. My husband & I did stay together, we have two beautiful [now college age] children, and our daughter’s death inspired us [and others] to get enacted significant state & federal vaccine legislation [with huge help from Henry Waxman].
Our candle to her.
Thank you, Elizabeth and Jane for your courage and grace. Best wishes and good thoughts to you both.
“And to all those who will undoubtably be callow enough to claim that Edwards is exploiting his wife’s cancer for political gain? Don’t turn your back, because the daggers will fly. And that’s a promise.”
Absolutely right. You can hear the snide comments starting now about the cocktail weenie crowd and the bush-bots. Lord, these are horrible, horrible people. Something Bill Maher said something the other day that struck me “Evil thrives when good men do nothing”. Let’s fight them tooth and nail.
Made Matthews want it more, you know.
Heh.
Now if he would just cover the rest of reality like he did the Plame case.
Kathleen Parker, I have one word for you: codpiece.
Exactly. Earlier today, when people were discussing this, I was telling people that she’d react just like you would.
I’ll bet you dollars to doughnuts that she spent most of the last day telling John “Don’t you DARE pull out, dammit!”
I love her. She’s a tough, smart, classy gal.
I have a friend that had bone cancer diagnosed last July. He underwent experimental treatment at the Mayo Clinic in Phoenix - chemo for 4 months, then “stem cell” harvesting and then insertion. As of this time, he’s completely free of all cancer and feels wonderful. This procedure was a bit pricey, but I believe that Elizabeth could afford it. Ask her to check it out.
sent a little note to K. Parker with a compare and contrast of “class” and “no class”
can you tell me what it means when folks say “incurable, but treatable”? I’m confused about that. . .
Edwards did a good job of explaining this. He said it’s like having diabetes. You’ll have it for the rest of your life, but it can be treated so that you can live your life normally. In this case, it means, I’d say, that the cancer is going to remain in the bone indefinitely, but that they can keep it from growing with treatment. The treatment wasn’t specified.
Professor Foland @ 44
I second that.
Plus, I’ll throw in free dagger sharpening with every order.
emptywheel @ 67
I did think about that.
Coulter, Hannity, and Limbaugh are preparing their “commentaries” as we speak.
Seeing as how I’d prefer to have my eyeballs impaled by hot needles as opposed to listening to or watching any of the above evil, I think it will mostly fall on deaf ears.
Gutsy, real people. Elizabeth–you keep fighting.
I have a few chronic conditions…A doctor once commented: “You are healthiest sick person I’ve ever seen!”
Elizabeth, keep up that sort of attitude and you’ll be with us when John is elected President and well beyond!!
Jane Hamsher @ 74
It’s been a while. But I think I used to be really good at playing hard to get.
katherine graham cracker @
17
Exactly.
Thank you Jane for being who you are and doing what you do. I thought about you while watching the Edwards announcement today. I’m sending out my admiration to you both and my hope for your continued good health.
I sent something different to Ms. Parker at kparker@kparker.com
I’ve just read your column and I was absolutely floored by what a shallow, vile human being you are. For the life of me I can’t figure out why you have your own column. Your ridiculous notion that Americans vote based on grooming is both lazy and mean spirited. Maybe your next column could slam him for not protecting his wife from cancer.
Disgusted in North Carolina,
Jim Jenkins
Kathleen Parker is an under-educated troll who has been misplaced in the journalism field. She should have stayed at her level of competence as a palm reader.
Her syndicated column comes out of the Orlando, Florida, Sentinel. Where else?
I just think that the contrast between how the Edwards have handled her illness and how Newtie kicked his own wife to the curb during her bout with cancer is illustrative. And we ought to illustrate that every chance we get.
And by the way Jane? MMMMWWAAAH! (smooch)
emptywheel @ 77
You and Tweety? Am I hearing what I think I’m hearing?
eeeeeeeeeek!
taylormattd @ 47
According to most doctors I’ve known, there is no “cure” for cancer, ANY cancer.
It can be put into remission, usually by a combination of treatments — surgery, chemotherapy — but it can return.
This is why those who have been treated for some form of cancer must have frequent check-ups.
One thing you don’t want to hear is that the disease has metastasized, not only does this mean the cancer has come back, but that it has spread, and it can be much more virulent in this form.
My best wishes and healing energy to both Elizabeth and John.
conniptionfit @ 81
Yup, yup and yup.
incurable but treatable in breast cancer terms, means that the b cancer has metastized into, usually, the bones, where it can be treated by various therapies for up to ten yrs now; if, however, the b cancer reappears in a major organ, like the liver or lungs, then the metastases
are not very treatable , since the liver is the filter for the body and one has only one liver, and lungs, well one has two lungs, but they interconnect and need to function, then the treatability is not too good; ; without oxygen, we don t exist.
and also it depends upon WHAT KIND of breast cancer , elizabeth had to begin with; was it pre menopausal or post? i believe it was pre, and they are more aggressive cancers than the cancers of old age. see SUSAN
LOVE’s wonderful books on breast cancer.
i wish you well jane and elizabeth; b cancer is a journey not a battle;
a lifelong chronic illness which can be very manageable ( i have had it for seventeen yrs, pre menopausal b cancer at age 46).
ccmask @ 54
I blame Clinton.
A great piece, Jane.
My best friend had multiple myeloma. Diagnosed in 1995…died before 2000. In those years, he accomplished so much and benefitted so many individuals in so many walks of life, that they ended naming a bridge after him in Boston.
I’ve never seen anyone burn as bright as my buddy. He worked tirelessly in many areas of endeavor right to the end. While it was hard to watch his physical fade, those five years were some of the most beautiful of my life.
We may not know the specifics but all of us have death sentences. Each and every one of us. This should just give us cause to burn as bright and with as much nourishing heat as we can for as long as we can.
ccmask @ 54
ccmask, you should be able to get it fixed. I broke the T on my Compaq laptop (it plumb wore out) and I can get it fixed, under warranty even as I sprang for the extended. Problem — they say 2-3 weeks and so far Mr. HotFlash hasn’t been able to get enough stuff onto a backup computer for me to go 3 weeks without it :(
ccmask @
54
For a short-term solution, go to Start | Accessories | Accessibility | On-Screen Keyboard.
For a more permanent solution, you can try cleaning around the key with a q-tip, or popping the key off the keyboard and resetting it. The latter needs to be done *very*, *very* carefully.
Alternately, you can try searching the net for a keyboard reassignment utility, and map the ‘o’ key to one of the ‘alt’ or ‘control’ keys.
I like Elizabeth’s decision- hopefully she has many exciting years left- if not- what’s a better way to go out- In the heat of a campaign for the US presidency- or locked up in the family mansion?
No question in my opinion!
Warm and caring thoughts to Elizabeth and John and all their family. And friends like Jane [nyc] who commented in the last thread. You are all enriched by your closeness to such a remarkable woman.
Like many, I had been going along, on the email list of 3 candidates, thinking well, there’s time to decide, and isn’t it incredible that the Dems are so enriched in all their candidates…and then, today, watching the press conference, it feels right to me to say: I’m making my commitment to the candidacy and campaign and values of John And Elizabeth Edwards.
sidebar: Dr. Bernadine [?] Healy had a powerful commentary on MSNBC right after the presser. Hopefully that’ll appear on MSNBC again. She nailed it on the medical side of their challenge.
I was watching MSNBC and Tweety and the female blonde anchor (couldn’t tell who she was, the sound was turned down) were smiling, and in a non-vicious way, when discussing John and Elizabeth’s decision. They were floored, as we are, by the guts and class of the Edwardses.
mayan @ 88
Great perspective. Thank you for your thoughts.
Jane, you and Elizabeth are setting standards that the rest of us will probably not be able to reach. Heck, when I feel a little sore throat, I take to my bed. Thanks to the two of you for keeping me motivated.
ccmask
I mentioned on the last thread.
You can get a cheap keyboard- a friend may have an old one sitting around- just plug it into your laptop!!
Jane, thank you for writing about this. I heard Elizabeth Edwards on the radio talking about her book and was incredibly impressed by her intelligence and compassion. Like others in the comments, I know a number of people who are living (well) with breast cancer and other incurable illnesses. I hope you are feeling well, and I thank you for all that you do.
OT
It looks like the House is finally going to give representation with a vote to DC. I don’t know what the Chimperor will do with it, but it looks like it has support on both sides of the aisle. It’s baing talked up on the floor now.
val in canada @
85
My mom’s identical twin had pre- that metastisized into bone cancer and then spread to the organs. She died from it. My mom spent years caring for her until her death.
It’s a very scary prospect.
The Edwards’ have real class.
Hopes and prayers to Elizabeth, she’s got so much strength and courage, we all learn from it.
Thanks to you, Jane, for acknowledging that this moment rises above the political game. You and Elizabeth Edwards and millions of other women (and men) share more than an affliction, you share a kindred spirit that only someone who has gone through such an ordeal can fully understand.
The rest of us can only hope we have as much personal dignity and fortitude when we inevitably face our own fears.
taylormattd @ 47
They always speak in terms of 5 year survival rates, particularly with something slow-growing like breast cancer, since it usually recurs in the first 5 years, but it can still linger and come back 10 years down the line. But if the cancer was originally limited within the breast plus a few lymph nodes, and you make 5 years clean, you’re not considered cured, but you can breathe more easily.
But once the cancer has spread (most common metastases are to bone, liver, and lungs, followed by nervous system), then they say they can’t cure it. THat’s because boobs are, for the most part, non-necessary organs (I know, I know), but the rest aren’t, and it’s a lot harder to make it disappear entirely at this point.
Obviously, bone mets are the least dangerous of the most common mets, because you can put reinforcement into bones. But I think the strategy changes, to just trying to keep cancer from growing/affecting your life quality. I’ve known a lot of women with bone mets, and some of the chemo they do for it is relatively mild (think pills rather than tubes in your arm).
tbsa @ 75
I think it will be a huge mistake on their part, but, hey, have at it, boys. Dig your own graves. I’ve got a shovel in my backyard if ya’ need one.
RevDeb @ 98
Chimpy said he’d veto, not sure on what grounds. Sorry, I can’t source it. I also seem to recall hearing that giving the vote to DC, but not Puerto Rico, was discriminatory towards Hispanics. I’ll ry to find the sources/links
mayan @ 88
Beautifully put, mayan.
I’ve lost a friend to cancer, 2 friends & an older brother to AIDS. W/out exception they all chose to live their lives to the fullest, pursuing their goals & aspirations to the limit in spite of physical pain & hardship, & to the very end.
I’m so lucky to have that kind of inspiration as a model for my own life.
God Bless the Edwards Family…
Mr. and Mrs. Edwards, you have so much grace and dignity, it is awe inspiring. Both my wife and I have gone through serious health issues, past and present. You and your family are in our prayers, Hang Tough, Tap.
I can only hope that the Edwards family and Jane can feel the energy of the many good thoughts and healing wishes we’ve all whispered for them…
-S
Mauimom @
39
Me too, Mauimom. In fact next saturday is our little Rosies’ birthday. 20 years ago, oh my! It’s amazing to me to look back on the days when every minute was a day long, and not even know how you were going to take your next breath, much less live to a day when you can even contemplate again having a living, breathing, fulfilling life. And Joy!