Eleanor Mondale and Chandler Hall Poling were married Wednesday. She began treatment for brain cancer on Monday.
Posted on 06/21/2005 7:17:43 AM PDT by Jenya
Eleanor Mondale Diagnosed With Cancer
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - Eleanor Mondale, the daughter of former Vice President Walter Mondale, has been diagnosed with brain cancer, the Star Tribune reported Tuesday.
Mondale spoke to the newspaper just hours before she began her first session of radiation and chemotherapy at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester. Just a week ago, Mondale married local rock star Chan Poling.
"It's bad but not that bad," she said from her farmhouse in Prior Lake. "I've got a really good chance to beat it."
Mondale, 45, said her vision had bothered her in recent months but didn't believe there was anything seriously wrong until a camping trip May 16, when she suffered two seizures.
Doctors determined she had two tumors, both in her frontal lobe, and on May 31 they were found to be cancerous.
Mondale will undergo nearly seven weeks of oral chemotherapy and radiation, which could either zap the tumors completely or reduce them to a size that makes surgery safer.
I lost my wife at 35 from breast cancer - see my Freeper page to see how beautiful she was and how wonderful the 2 sons she gave me are.
God bless you and prayers for you as well.
day10
Right now, she's got more urgent things to worry about.
Prayers for her recovery.
Did Mondale have another daughter who froze to death on a city street or am I getting Senators crossed?
"It's bad but not that bad,"
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Good attitude and Best wishes, Eleanor.
cancer sucks
That was McGovern. I think she was a raging alcholic.
Yup...I got mixed up...thanks.
Best wishes to you and your boys. It has been almost eight years for me. Mine are now 21 and 26. The younger will be a Senior studying computer science at Illinois Institute of Technology and the elder finished his degree and is now finishing up the Navy's Nuclear Engineering program. Both are fine boys and I am sure your are as well.
The pain never really goes away but then neither does the joy which we shared. I wouldn't give up the twenty years of marriage we had for anything. Without her who knows what I would have become.
Oh dear, I hope she can beat this. We will be praying for her and her family. How sad.
Prayers up.
Looker or not. I hope and pray she beats this and I hope and pray ANYONE who has any disease like this beats it.
And it cracks me up that we've made it through 100 posts without anyone realizing that the two gentlemen spell their names differently.
Football player - Keith Van Horne
Basketball player - Keith Van Horn
And that said, best wishes for a speedy recovery. A dear friend of mine had, and beat, a brain tumor. It was extremely unpleasant but the story is remarkable.
A cow? Or wife of President Roosevelt? Oh, wait, maybe they're one in the same... ;-)
Some may have made that mistake.
I'm sure mondale was a partisan democrat. But I don't think he took bribes, covered up crimes, engaged in personal attacks, sold secrets to china and anyone else who would pay a nickel, had any questionable sexual activities, or used his office as a personal brothel.
bttt
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