Food tastes of chemicals and metal. She has fainted in church from dehydration. Still, she doesn't appear sick. Some say the ailing Democratic Party could take a cue from a woman struggling for her survival with strength, grace and humor. Those characteristics are only reinforced by the travails in her own life.
Some colleagues say they have worried about the impact of stress.
Being active and leading a purposeful life and being able to continue contributing and fulfilling responsibilities is positive for healing and optimal medical care,' said Couric's husband, George Beller, a physician who is chief of the cardiovascular division of the University of Virginia and president of the American College of Cardiology. Couric credits her determination to lessons learned in her childhood in Arlington. All of Emily's strengths are coming through in fighting this disease,' said Clara Batchelor, the sibling closest to Couric in age and a landscape architect in Boston. At Smith College, Batchelor said, her sister was the type of student who answered more essay questions than her professors required. Couric is bursting with plans to revitalize a party that she thinks has emphasized media and mailings at the expense of grass-roots politicking.