elizabeth edwards.....

ok, so i have been thinking about elizabeth edwards this week....for many reasons......a wonderful woman that i got to know when she felt well enough to have friends take her out for lunch at the restaurant died last saturday.....of breast cancer.....at least 2 women in my sunday school class are breast cancer survivors......we were able to adopt our daughter because her foster mother had had breast cancer and feared that a recurrance would make parenting too complicated......my spouse's oldest sister is battling her second round of breast cancer as we speak......too many women, too much cancer......maybe elizabeth edwards' situation will cause a rush on mammograms, like clinton's heart problems spawned a flurry of men in er's with chest pain.........for what it is worth i am up-to-date on mammograms.......but then there is controversy on exactly how effective mammograms are in detecting cancers before they are too big to treat easily......i suppose that men will have to get breast cancer on a widespread basis before adequate funding goes into finding early enough detection techniques.......that was a mean thing to say....but you shouldn't be surprised.....