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. Or something.
On more than one occasion during our interview, Elizabeth Edwards managed to find some humor-- even joke about the difficult circumstances now confronting her and her family. Still, inevitably, she is realistic about the future.
And for now, it is uncertain. Edwards: "Well of course I'm most afraid for them. Most afraid that it doesn't turn out as we hope it will. But there are good things in it too.
For one thing, her decision to go public has given her the opportunity to encourage other women to get yearly mammograms. She hadn't for four years. Now, some women, hearing about her condition, are paying closer attention to their own health.
Edwards: "People are now doing some of the things that I failed to do. They're heeding a lesson of, you know, my negligence about my own health and taking it into their own hands to do something for themselves, which is why I've gotten so many letters from people really supportive. A woman who lives around the corner. Someone else who emailed from the other side of the country saying that they have… with word of my condition, they did their own checks and found that they needed to go to the doctor.
And then even found out that they had a diagnosis that was going to need treatment. A woman just started chemotherapy who said, you know, that could have saved her life. Now, you know, did I save her life? I don't know that. But I do know that if I don't speak out, I don't have the chance of having that effect. And the most you could hope for this is that you get the very best out of it that you can get. You know, I can't change the diagnosis. And in truth, only in little ways can I change the ultimate result.
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Although she was well enough to make public appearances just a few months ago, medical experts who are not involved with Edwards' treatment say it's not unusual for metastatic breast cancer to progress quickly into its final stages. Harry D. Edwards' cancer was reportedly the estrogen receptor-positive ER-positive type, meaning the cancer grows in high-estrogen environments.
Doctors say it's the most common form of breast cancer, and is also the type that leads to the most deaths. Louis, Mo.
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