Elizabeth Edwards Buzz

This morning, I got a message that Elizabeth Edwards was in the news today. Oh boy--it's true!

Edwards Emerges from Cancer with Grace

From the News-Observer this morning:

Largely out of the public eye since her husband's loss to the Bush-Cheney ticket in 2004, Edwards describes in a forthcoming autobiography how she endured months of grueling treatment in early 2005. The treatment included chemotherapy, surgery and radiation with side effects, including nausea, loss of hair and nerve damage in her hand that made it difficult to write.

"The cancer seems to be gone," she writes in the book, "Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength From Friends and Strangers," scheduled for publication Sept. 26 by Broadway Books. The book will have an initial printing of more than 100,000 copies.

The AP picked up the story, and here's a different excerpt:

Elizabeth Edwards says in a new book that when she shaved her head because of hair loss from treatment for breast cancer, her husband - former Democratic vice presidential candidate John Edwards - offered to do the same.

So did their young son Jack, Edwards writes in "Saving Graces: Finding Solace and Strength From Friends and Strangers," scheduled for publication Sept. 26 by Broadway Books.

To read more, go to mbair's diary on the Daily Kos. She gets the hat-tip.

Excerpt from the book:

"He got on the phone, and I started slowly. 'Sweetie,' I began. It's how I always began. And then came the difference: I couldn't speak. Tears were there, panic was there, need was there, but not words. He knew, of course, when I couldn't speak that something was wrong. 'Just tell what's wrong,' he insisted."-- on telling John that she had cancer.

Freeps, I never want to hear the term "Breck Girl" again about John Edwards.

Update, July 23rd: MamasInk site applauds Elizabeth's foray into publishing her story. What's MamasInk? According to their homepage, "MamasInk are a bunch of writers who are also mamas. We quite often take motherhood as our subject matter, but not always. We're blogging as a group to support each other in our adventures in writing."

Yep, I second that accolade for Elizabeth.

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Tags: Elizabeth Edwards, John Edwards, JRE, Saving Graces, mbair, Broadway books, MamasInk