Molly Ivins (breast cancer)
Ed Varner
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Jan. 26, 2007, 12:32PM
Ivins hospitalized in ongoing cancer fight
By APRIL CASTRO
Associated Press
AUSTIN - Liberal Texas columnist Molly Ivins has been hospitalized in
her ongoing battle with breast cancer, her assistant said today.
Ivins may be able to go home Monday, Betsy Moon said.
"That's the day the doctors said," Moon said. "We're not sure what's
going to happen, but she's very sick."
Ivins, 62, had taken a break from her syndicated column, but resumed
writing earlier this month. Her most recent column appeared two weeks
ago, when Ivins urged readers to stand up against President Bush's plan
to send more troops to Iraq, in what she called an "old-fashioned
newspaper crusade."
"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," Ivins wrote in the Jan. 11 column. "We
need people in the streets, banging pots and pans and demanding, 'Stop
it, now!'"
Ivins regularly provokes conservatives, who sometimes dismiss her as an
ill-informed critic who writes well. Nearly 400 newspapers subscribe to
her column.
The California native, who grew up in Houston, got her third cancer
diagnosis more than a year ago. She has undergone chemotherapy.
She was overwhelmed with advice and gifts after she wrote of her
initial diagnosis of breast cancer in 1999. The outpouring kept her
from telling readers of recurrences in 2003 and 2005.
Ivins said last year she isn't giving in to cancer.
"Maybe this is false bravado," she said in the Austin
American-Statesman. "In some ways for me, this is like having a
manageable disease. It's like diabetes. It doesn't mean it's not going
to come get me in the end."