Edwards has focused on reforming the country's system of providing health care toward a single-payer process designed to serve all.
She has often wondered aloud about the plight of those who faced the same of kind of physical struggle, but without her personal wealth. Captivated by stories of those who could not afford health care coverage, Edwards has passionately retold them at roundtable discussions, in writings on the Web and on Capitol Hill. Edwards has shared with the public the most intimate struggles of her bouts with cancer, writing and speaking about the pain of losing her hair, the efforts to assure her children about their mother's future and the questions that lingered about how many days she had left to live.
She continued that public face on Monday. To you I simply say: you know," Edwards, a popular figure among Democratic activists, wrote on the Facebook post. Edwards has battled breast cancer since , diagnosed in the final days of the campaign when her husband was the Democratic vice presidential nominee. John Edwards launched a second bid for the White House in The Edwardses decided to continue the campaign after doctors told Elizabeth that her cancer had spread, but he lost the nomination to Barack Obama.
Edwards was more than a political spouse. She was chief adviser and strategist to her husband's campaigns for the Senate and later for the presidency. The Edwardses met in law school. Daughter Cate has followed her parents into a career in law while son Wade was killed in a traffic accident when he was Americans knew Elizabeth Edwards in large part through her tragedies, but more importantly, they knew her for the vitality and determination she showed through them.
Her cancer incurable and her former-presidential-candidate husband mired in a paternity scandal, she did not shrink from public life but shared her story and advocated for health-care reform. Edwards died of cancer Tuesday at her North Carolina home surrounded by her three children, siblings, friends and her estranged husband, John. She was Elizabeth Edwards and her family had informed the public that she had weeks, if not days, left when they announced on Monday that doctors had told her that further treatment will do no good.
Ever the public figure, Edwards thanked supporters on her Facebook page. And yes, there are certainly times when we aren't able to muster as much strength and patience as we would like.
It's called being human. But I have found that in the simple act of living with hope, and in the daily effort to have a positive impact in the world, the days I do have are made all the more meaningful and precious. And for that I am grateful. Her final days were in the company of her surviving children and their father.
Saunders relayed a scene from Monday, told to him by John Edwards, when their youngest child, year-old Jack, came in the room to tell his mother he loved her. She smiled at him and said, "I love you, too, sweetie," Saunders said. Edwards shared her life struggles in memoirs. In a series of book events starting in , her insights brought women who confided in Edwards about how they dealt with hair loss from treatments or how her words helped them cope with lost children.
In her book "Saving Graces," Edwards talked about collapsing in the aisle of a grocery store after seeing her son's favorite soda - Cherry Coke- a few months after he died in a car accident at the age of Taken together, these two bits of information usually mean older women who have babies will be around to watch them grow up. More on Time.
Not so for Edwards, whose two younger children are 10 and At 53, Gregory is also the mother of a 6-year-old and a year-old. Devastated, she became a fixture at his gravesite, reading aloud from his high school textbooks.
She had a teenage daughter, Cate, but she decided she wanted more children. She was 48 when she delivered Emma Claire and 50 when Jack arrived, diving back into the thicket of early childhood at an age when most people are closer to becoming grandparents — and some already are.
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