sickness (my ma)

There's no new news about my mom, but, with Edwards withdrawing from the race, a few news outlets have mentioned his wife's cancer, which they have described as "treatable but incurable". I suddenly realized that this is what my mom's cancer is.

From our perspective, it's that my mom is constantly on chemo or under the knife. With the exception of 4 months, she's not been cancer-free since June 2002.

I've thought for years that this cancer is never going to go away and, barring the "you could have a heart attack/get hit by a car tomorrow" scenario, that this is going to kill her, but I guess I'd never thought that there was some condition of cancer that my mother & Elizabeth Edwards have, that is known as "treatable but incurable". It's just another way of thinking about it, I guess.

Poorly chosen acronym

The organization has existed since 1979. But someone should tell them they need a name change: the Wisconsin Tourism Federation

About WTF

The Wisconsin Tourism Federation was established in 1979. Most of WTF's efforts have been devoted to the passage of legislation supportive of the tourism industry.

While tourism initiatives have come from various administrations, individual legislators, the Governor's Council on Tourism and the industry, WTF's lobbying efforts at the State Capitol and at the grassroots level, have been the determining factor for the final passage or defeat of initiatives of concern to the industry.