I have a chance to find the doctors who, you know, who are thinking about this and studying it in the most thoughtful ways so that I can get the very best kind of treatment that's available, which is a great, great opportunity.
Couric: "And coping with Wade's death which is, of course, so unimaginable for every parent. I imagine that it gave you some strength. Or something deep down inside that you had to rely on to get through that awful period that you still have to rely on every day when you think of your son.
Edwards: "Well, you do. I wrote something fairly recently about -- and I think I probably did it back then after Wade died, too. About this sense that you're just sort of falling, you know? And you don't even want to make yourself stop. You're just sort of falling in this world. And it's fine with you if you do because you just can't think -- you just don't have the strength or energy to grab hold of anything along the side of this, you know, of this tunnel that you're falling down endless chasm.
And this, you know, this is sort of -- you found a way to do it then. And this is another, you know, now you're falling again. But somehow having been through it once, you realize you just go ahead and grab hold and, you know, do the best that you can. Edwards: "Well I've now done one. So I have about 14 more weeks of this. Of this process. Edwards: "I'm actually feeling all right. My, you know, medicines were not that hard to take.
Good Italian stock. You know, just put anything in me. And so that part's been pretty good. And I'm just looking forward to -- I want to rush through it in a way. But of course I know I can't. Couric: "When you walked in to get chemo for the first time, were you scared?
Edwards: "Well? I'll be honest, I wasn't really afraid. I was actually relieved. My feeling was, now I'm doing something about it. You know? As opposed to just being a victim in a sense. She knows it's going to be a grueling ordeal, so she's taken pains to talk about her diagnosis with her year-old daughter, Cate, and to explain all she can to 6 -year-old Emma Claire and 4 -year-old Jack, the two children she and her husband had after Wade was killed.
Edwards: "We've tried explaining it to them. You know, that Mommy has a bump, and the bump is called cancer. And I'm going to take medicine for the bump, and it's going to make my hair fall out.
And I might as well not have said any of the other words. Once I said my hair will fall out, nothing else interested them. And so they're pretty excited about this prospect. Couric: "Well I understand they laughed uproariously when you told them that your hair would fall out. They thought that was really funny. Edwards: "They think it's really funny. I don't want to be sort of-- look to them in some way strange if my hair falls out… So I'm going to probably go ahead and shave as it gets close.
So that I don't have this sort of dog-with-mange look. My mother 50 yrs old is suffering from Metastatic breast cancer. I make a wish to God that no one in the world should suffer like this. Sometimes I pray to God that it is better to release her from the mortal body and make her free from the world.
It is difficult to pray like this for our dear ones. But I think we can do this for whom we love the most. I love my mother so much. My mother is 88 years old. She was diagnosed with stage 4 metastatic breast cancer.
I just pray to God she would not suffer that she would go peacefully. Pray for me. They want transparency and […]. Buy Now. Sulik Elizabeth Edwards died from stage 4 breast cancer also known as metastatic breast cancer on December 7th, at the age of Subscribe to the OUPblog via email: Our Privacy Policy sets out how Oxford University Press handles your personal information, and your rights to object to your personal information being used for marketing to you or being processed as part of our business activities.
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In an April interview with "Good Morning America's" Robin Roberts, she said wanted her children to be able to handle any situation that comes their way. They have to know what to do when the wind blows them off course. And that's what's happened to me," she said. That, in bad times, you still keep your eye on what it was that was important to you. And you press forward with that. And if - that's all I give them, then I would have done a really great job.
In a television appearance taped in July on the "Nate Berkus show," she talked about talking about her new furniture store in North Carolina. I was sort of an at-home mother for a while, and then a political wife," she said. It doesn't belong to any of those things in the past. Do what it is they need to be done," she said.
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