Elizabeth Edwards says the admission by her husband, John Edwards, of an affair has helped her focus on the importance of her children and issues like health reform as she goes through "an ongoing process
of finding your feet again".
"There's a lot of adjustment to make," the wife of the former Democratic presidential candidate said in an exclusive interview with the Free Press this week. "When you mention trust, that's probably the most difficult hurdle."
Edwards, 59, wants her three children -- Cate, 26, Emma Claire, 10, and Jack, 8 -- to have an image of their father as "an advocate for poverty, not for this current picture of him to be the only one they carry with them, as young people and as adults."
"I have to prepare for the possibility if I die before they are grown and" make them "able to function without an involved, engaged and admiring parent," she said. "So I need to create the picture for them that I want them to have."
She also is resuming her advocacy. Her Detroit-area speech is during Breast Cancer Awareness month. She will testify today before Congress on health care reform. She wants to ensure that any changes to fix the nation's health care system will allow people with preexisting medical problems to obtain insurance coverage; that changes won't whittle away at important benefits, such as screening, and that insurance companies will more routinely send reminders to women about getting a mammogram.
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