Posted on 03/25/2007 5:51:34 PM PDT by COUNTrecount
"...and then reappearing in 2012 wouldn't score a zillion more points."
Exactly. Even though he doesn't appeal to me in the least, the dopey, leftist Soccer Moms would SWOON over something like that.
When you get stage four cancer, get back to us.
Chemo, radiation and other treatments aren't compatable with anything.
All I'm saying is people should be spending quality time with their families NOW, not wait until someone falls ill and there's no hope of recovery. I saw someone post on another thread that many people with cancer wholeheartedly agree with their decision to go on with their lives. Make the best of the time they have left together. Not everyone with an ill spouse can afford to quit working to be at their side 24/7. They still have to live. Being a caretaker causes stress in itself and a person shouldn't be made to feel guilty about having time away from a sick family member. It seems Mrs. Edwards understands that and I think you're all being a little harsh on the them. I don't have a problem with their decision and I think it's pretty selfish that everyone thinks otherwise.
I have a sis-in-law who loves her elderly mother dearly and spends every spare moment she can with her. I hear a lot of resentment in her voice when she tells me about her visits with mom. So much of her time is taken up, there's none left for her. Is that how you'd like your children/spouse to feel? Not me.
Have you been following the story of Kay Yow, NC State Women's basketball coach? She is battling her third recurrance of breat cancer. She took two months off from coaching in but returned to the team in January. She is taking chemo and biologic treatments and just led her team to the Sweet 16 in Fresno CA. She's had a nurse flying with her and her oncologist went with her this past weekend, she has been tired and sick, but she was able to coach. She said that during a game--for two hours she didn't think about cancer. More power to her. She's been an inspiration to my mother who was just diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer. My mother sees Kay Yow out there and she is inspired to lead as normal a life as possible for as long as possible. I don't agree with the Edwards politically on anything, but I did agree with Elizabeth's statement that to give up immediately is to let the cancer win before it has too.
When a man and woman bring a child into the world, that child is due their time and resources. They are not wee cute little birds to be thrown out of the nest, nor is a a man a President who abandons his children and sick wife, no matter how she may speak.
I don't see it as abandoning her at all. I'm sure this was as much her choice as his. Post 85 said it very well. More power to them both, I applaud their strength to go on with life in spite of the cancer. May it be a long and happy one.
Such strength! Such long and happy lifes ...
Adults all, and their choices are theirs.
Still, what about the six and eight year old. The "replacments" for the older brother they never met, born to an older "mother"? Mother in quotes. Where is her commitment to those innocents? Where is his?
"Toss them out of the nest already! Grow those wings! Fly or die! This place is getting too crowded, and they bother us! We have so much better, bigger, garnder, greater things to do and people to see!"
I guess I'm more disturbed at how distrustful I've become regarding politicians, especially liberal ones.
Nobody is saying she needs to "give up". What we are saying is this could shorten her life, being dragged along a campaign trail. Thank god I have a husband who loves me and makes me his #1 priority, not his career or his own ambitions.
They are not wee cute little birds to be thrown out of the nest, nor is a a man a President who abandons his children and sick wife, no matter how she may speak.
Amen to that!
Absolutely! It needs to be about the person fighting this battle. They don't need stress or extra put on them at this time.
Talking about "is he supposed to drop out of life waiting for his wife to die?" Maybe he read the Michael Schavio book of being a good husband and how to "get on" with life.
I have a sis-in-law who loves her elderly mother dearly and spends every spare moment she can with her. I hear a lot of resentment in her voice when she tells me about her visits with mom.
Wow her mother must really be appreciative.
She had a nurse flying with her? And she was able to do all of this. How marvelous. The problem is that is NOT a normal happening. Look, I have cancer, and three of my friends do, and many in the past. We keep joking about these "people" who have stage iv cancer and keep working and dancing and never get sick and never get debilitated and even drive themselves back and forth like nothing is wrong! Funny part is, I don't know any. I just keep hearing about them.
Reality for most is quite different, I can assure you.
Hey, greccogirl, you have my sympathies for your problem with cancer. Hang in there!
I'm tryin'. I guess I should be finding some great thing to do while I'm suffering.
I learned how to play guitar. It took my mind away from the pain. Not cancer, but something about as deadly.
Keep your sense of humor, for that is immortal.
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