I have great admiration for John and Elizabeth Edwards. Her cancer has returned, and it is in a form that is "not curable, but treatable." She also says she is asymptomatic. Since they've decided to soldier on, I hope that the psychological blow of knowing that this will remain for the rest of her life doesn't tear them down too much. There can't have been enough time for the real impact of that to sink in.

Her doctor says that, in general, patients go about their lives, and the only change is that they go to the clinic more and perhaps feel more tired than usual from the treatment.

I can picture him asking if he should end or suspend the campaign, and she tells him absolutely not. It's a good mental image.

Good, good people. Prayers and thoughts for them--and for those people who are not so fortunate as to discover it early, or who don't have adequate health care to treat it.