[Dialogue] Molly Ivins Hospitalized in Ongoing Battle With Cancer

[George Holcombe]

I just spoke with my friend, Harold Cook, a close friend of Molly's.   
He had visited her last night.  The doctors have told her there is  
nothing more they can do.  Hold her up in your thoughts and prayers,  
she has been a great voice which we will miss, especially in the  
coming days.

George Holcombe
14900 Yellowleaf Tr.
Austin, TX 78728
Home: 512/252-2756
Mobile 512/294-5952
geowanda at earthlink.net


On Jan 27, 2007, at 12:16 PM, Harry Wainwright wrote:

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> Published on Friday, January 26, 2007 by Editor & Publisher
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> Molly Ivins Hospitalized in Ongoing Battle With Cancer
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> by E & P Staff
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> AUSTIN -- Almost three weeks ago, Molly Ivins wrote that she would  
> dedicate every single one of her syndicated columns from now on to  
> the issue of stopping the war in Iraq -- until it ended. But she  
> has managed to finish only one more column since.
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> The gravely ill Texas columnist has been hospitalized again this  
> week in her ongoing battle with breast cancer.
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> Her assistant Betsy Moon says she may be able to go home Monday.  
> She adds that those close to Ivins are ``not sure what's going to  
> happen, but she's very sick.''
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> The 62-year-old columnist had taken an earlier break from her  
> syndicated column, but resumed writing earlier this month.
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> Last October she had suggested this headline to an E&P interviewer:  
> "Molly Ivins Still Not Dead."
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> E&P wrote then, "The third recurrence of the breast cancer she has  
> been battling since 1999 (and which recently claimed her good  
> friend, former Texas Gov. Ann Richards) has left the 62-year-old  
> Ivins with precarious balance, minimal hair, and no illusions about  
> the redemptive quality of life-threatening illness. 'I'd hoped to  
> become a better person from confronting my own mortality,' she  
> laughs. 'But it hasn't happened.'"
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> In the Jan. 11th column, which opposed the troop escalation, Ivins  
> wrote “We are the people who run this country. We are the deciders.  
> And every single day, every single one of us needs to step outside  
> and take some action to help stop this war....If you can, go to the  
> peace march in Washington on Jan. 27. We need people in the  
> streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, 'Stop it, now!'"
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> But this was the last newspaper column she has been able to write.
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> The column she wrote before that, a few days earlier, opened, "The  
> president of the United States doesn't have the sense God gave a  
> duck. So it's up to us. You and me.
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> "I don't know why Bush is just standing there like a frozen rabbit,  
> but it's time we found out. The fact is we have to do something  
> about it. This country is being torn apart by an evil and  
> unnecessary war, and it has to be stopped now."
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> She vowed, "This will be a regular feature of mine, like an old- 
> fashioned newspaper campaign. Every column, I'll write about this  
> war until we find some way to end it.
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> "Every time, we'll review some factor we should have gotten right."
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> Nearly 400 newspapers subscribe to her column.
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> The longtime journalist and former New York Times reporter got her  
> third cancer diagnosis more than a year ago and has undergone  
> chemotherapy.
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