Senator's wife gives upbeat update


July 07, 2008 12:36 EDT

BOSTON (AP) -- Ted Kennedy's wife says his cancer treatment has added a new word to her husband's vocabulary: "fatigue."

She says that's the only side effect he's been experiencing during treatment for brain cancer. The Massachusetts senator is midway through six weeks of radiation and chemotherapy.

In an e-mail to family and friends sent last week, Vicki Kennedy says her husband is coping well with the fatigue and tackling the disease with "his trademark grit and determination." She says after his morning treatments at Massachusetts General Hospital, Kennedy frequently goes sailing on his schooner "Mya."

The e-mail was obtained by The Associated Press from a Kennedy friend.

Vicki Kennedy says her husband describes his cancer as "a bear." But she calls him "a lion," adding that she's "betting on the lion."

1 comments:

Jenn Jilks said...

Brain tumours are no fun. My father passed away from one after surgery, and radiation. He was age 81.It was a difficult journey towards the end. I wish this on no one. Caregivers must look after themselves.

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