Posted on 12/06/2010 1:43:51 PM PST by Justaham
Elizabeth Edwards's cancer fight has taken a turn for the worse, with the disease spreading to her liver and doctors recommending against additional treatment.
"Elizabeth has been advised by her doctors that further treatment of her cancer would be unproductive. She is resting at home with family and friends," the Edwards family says in a statement to PEOPLE.
On Monday, Edwards, 61, posted a Facebook message to her friends.
"I have been sustained throughout my life by three saving graces my family, my friends, and a faith in the power of resilience and hope," she writes. "These graces have carried me through difficult times and they have brought more joy to the good times than I ever could have imagined. The days of our lives, for all of us, are numbered. We know that."
Edwards, who was first diagnosed with breast cancer in November 2004, was briefly hospitalized last week after not feeling well over Thanksgiving. Doctors said her cancer had metastasized to the liver.
With the sudden turn, family members including daughter Cate, a Washington lawyer, and her brother and sister, Jay and Nancy Anania hastened to Chapel Hill, N.C., to be with her.
"It isnt possible to put into words the love and gratitude I feel to everyone who has and continues to support and inspire me every day," Edwards wrote on Facebook. "To you I simply say: you know. With love, Elizabeth."
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My prayers for your family. My wife fought breast cancer for 9 years. It in the end spread to her liver. Very hard to treat. The liver does not like radiation and chemo options are limited
My prayers for your family. My wife fought breast cancer for 9 years. It in the end spread to her liver. Very hard to treat. The liver does not like radiation and chemo options are limited
“she will be going in the wrong direction.”
That is a hell of a thing to say. How do you know?
Wouldn’t that be nice (from our human perspective)? But God’s ways are not our ways. He will have His justice at some point, even if it is not through direct physical suffering on this earth.
He'll probably be going to the big house soon, not the one in the sky either!
A picture says a thousand words...
That’s a rotten shame. I wouldn’t wish that on anybody. Prayers for her and her children.
“If I read that right, John made it about him.”
Yup, you read it right. It’s always about him....
prayers for her children
We have no way of knowing what goes on between anyone else and God. Let us not judge. That’s God’s job. Neither of us are even personally acquainted with her.
From what I’ve read, Elizabeth Edwards has been a very unpleasant person whose ongoing ugliness was part of what drove her weak husband to his stupid adultery. I don’t know what the truth is. But suffering tends to refine the spirit, and cancer brings many or most people to their knees before God. There are few atheists in the radiation oncology department of a hospital. In any case she needs our prayers.
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