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Elizabeth Edwards seriously ill
WRAL ^ | December 6, 2010 | WRAL staff

Posted on 12/06/2010 1:40:34 PM PST by Baladas

Chapel Hill, N.C. — Elizabeth Edwards' cancer has spread, and her health has deteriorated, multiple sources told WRAL News Monday.

Edwards, 61, the wife of former Democratic presidential candidate John Edwards, was briefly hospitalized recently, but she is now at home, and her family and friends are lending their support.

She was first diagnosed with cancer in the final weeks of the 2004 presidential campaign, when her husband, who was at the time a U.S. senator from North Carolina, was the Democratic nominee for vice president. The couple didn't disclose her illness until after the election

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: cancer; elisabethedwards; elizabethedwards; johnedwards
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To: Baladas
What a gay...uh, guy.
21 posted on 12/06/2010 2:20:33 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: Baladas
What a gay...uh, guy.
22 posted on 12/06/2010 2:21:12 PM PST by traderrob6
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To: MissTed

Something doesn’t sound right, if she’s 61 and her kids are 12 and 10.


23 posted on 12/06/2010 2:34:59 PM PST by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: Second Amendment First
""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. "

No mention of the Lord. Even on her "deathbed", no Lord. Unless I missed something here, she's got a heck of a lot more to worry about when her time comes.

24 posted on 12/06/2010 2:44:04 PM PST by NoGrayZone (This is not an election on November 2. This is a restraining order. - PJ O'Rourke)
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To: Alberta's Child
I remember they were pretty young when he & Kerry ran. This states it was taken in 2004.


25 posted on 12/06/2010 2:44:30 PM PST by MissTed ( Do women in burqas have fun tagging each other in Facebook photos?)
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To: Baladas

Prayers for Elizabeth.


26 posted on 12/06/2010 2:47:11 PM PST by LibertyRocks (Anti-Obama Gear: http://cafepress.com/NO_ObamaBiden08)
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To: Baladas

Breck Girl told us she would likely die by Christmas back in 2004. I hope we see this story again just before Christmas 2016 with one other detail ... President Palin pardoned John Edwards so he could care for his ailing (ex-)wife.


27 posted on 12/06/2010 2:47:42 PM PST by MIchaelTArchangel (Obama makes me miss Jimmah Cahtah!)
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To: Alberta's Child

Something doesn’t sound right, if she’s 61 and her kids are 12 and 10.
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She used fertility treatments and while they haven’t stated one way or another, some have speculated that the Edwards used donor eggs. They had the youngest 2 children after their son Wade was killed in the auto accident.

And for whomever it was that asked earlier, the Edwards are divorced, but I do not believe he is living with the mother of his baby.


28 posted on 12/06/2010 2:53:34 PM PST by leapfrog0202 ("the American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of personal discovery" Sarah Palin)
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To: Baladas

Prayers for her health.


29 posted on 12/06/2010 2:59:43 PM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
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To: Baladas

Prayers up for her and her children.


30 posted on 12/06/2010 3:04:12 PM PST by jmaroneps37 (Conservatism is truth. Liberalism is lies.)
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To: Baladas

I wish no ill will to anyone suffering from cancer. She married a sociopath and there are lots of other women and men who have done likewise. I pray for her comfort from both scourges in her remaining days.


31 posted on 12/06/2010 3:18:17 PM PST by mono
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To: NoGrayZone
"No mention of the Lord. Even on her "deathbed", no Lord. Unless I missed something here, she's got a heck of a lot more to worry about when her time comes."

I noticed that also. Prayers that she will come to a saving faith before her death so that she may truly know what saving grace is. So sad if she does not. The cancer pain will be nothing compared to what awaits her if she doesn't understand and belief in God's true grace through Christ Jesus.

32 posted on 12/06/2010 3:26:56 PM PST by lupie
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To: Baladas
I am sorry she is so sick...poor lady...prayers for her and her family. Her young children losin their Mother is very sad.

Whackjob kind of fits her...since she was once a DU poster.

33 posted on 12/06/2010 3:31:13 PM PST by shield (A wise man's heart is at his RIGHT hand;but a fool's heart at his LEFT. Ecc 10:2)
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To: NoGrayZone

I pray she finds Christ before she passes and repents.


34 posted on 12/06/2010 3:41:52 PM PST by Halls (Jesus is my Lord and Savior)
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To: donna

As do I. Hope is a wonderful thing, but only when it is in the Lord.


35 posted on 12/06/2010 4:17:12 PM PST by skr (May God confound the enemy)
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To: abb
This could be what the Feds are waiting on before they drop a net over Edwards.

I completely agree with you, abb. You must be a person who sees the glass half full. Despite everything, I too still want to believe that occasionally our government will do the right thing, and holding off on any indictment during the final days of this woman is the right thing to do.

She has been through enough! I look at her law school graduation picture and I see so much promise. There was a lovely young woman who had made law review and was on her way to a federal clerkship and a marriage to the man she loved. How horrible it all turned out.

I pray she finds peace and comfort as she approaches the end.

36 posted on 12/07/2010 12:58:03 AM PST by Mad-Margaret
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To: Alberta's Child

Fertility drugs, donor and just too busy chasing the dream. So sad. Nothing could be more gut wrenching than the idea that you will not be around to raise your kids or hold your grandbabies. Prayers for her and her kids from one mother to another.


37 posted on 12/07/2010 4:16:24 AM PST by riri
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To: Baladas

Prayers up for Elizabeth. May she come to know The Lord and may He grant her healing or the mercy of an easy passage from this life, as He sees fit.


38 posted on 12/07/2010 4:23:23 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: leapfrog0202
Thanks for the information -- I wasn't aware of any of that.

Nothing against the kids, of course -- but for all kinds of reasons this strikes me as a very weird family.

39 posted on 12/07/2010 4:35:02 AM PST by Alberta's Child ("If you touch my junk, I'm gonna have you arrested.")
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To: Baladas

From what I heard this morning...sounds like she has only weeks left...I pray she is comforted by the Lord and her family....May His peace be graced upon all of them during this time...


40 posted on 12/07/2010 4:38:46 AM PST by PigRigger (Donate to http://www.AdoptAPlatoon.org - The Troops have our front covered, let's guard their backs!)
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