reports quite regularly with what we re doing with our peace programs and other health programs and so forth so i ll continue to do that. i can t really anticipate how i ll be feeling obviously, but i ll have to defer quite substantially to my doctors in charge of the treatment. i understand that the radiation treatments and also the injections will be every three weeks for four times and then stop and take a look at what s what the results might have been, and i ll try to adhere to that schedule as much as possible. the carter center is well prepared to continue on without any handicap if rosa and i do back away from a lot of the activities that we have been doing. we have decided last march that our grandson jason would take
adventure. president carter, katy foodie with the associated press. you just said that you felt at ease. can you tell us a little bit more about your discussions with your doctors, with your family, and how you came to decide that you did want treatment and you wanted to pursue anything that your doctors did recommend would be appropriate for you? it never was a difficulty for me because i don t think i ve ever deviated from a commitment to do what my doctors recommended, so that one was not a big decision for me. i decided that to begin with. and so dr. curren is here and i understand if you have any technical questions to ask him or medical questions, he d be willing to answer any questions that you might have later on. but the three doctors that worked in close harmony with me and the surgeon who did the operation on my liver and dr. curren who is a specialist on treatment of cancer and also dr.
just a truly extraordinary historic news conference. i ve never witnessed any american president talk so openly and frankly about his health, about a disease that affects so many americans. perhaps though it s no surprise the president who chose to do that was jimmy carter. i have met and interviewed jimmy carter many times. he is a true gentleman, down to earth and i just can t express how kind he is. i want to bring in wolf blitzer right now. i don t know about you, but i think i experienced every emotion humanly possible. i cried, i laughed, i felt hope, i felt despair. it was just extraordinary. he was so open, so honest, so lucid in discussing what couldn t be a more personal issue, the fact that this cancer has now spread and spread to his brain, the treatment he s going to have to endure over the next several weeks, months, who knows what s going to happen next, but
for anyone to have to go through something like this, but at the same time we all realize and president carter realizes this is a part of life. it s a part of what all of us will have to deal with at one point or another, and so given the reality of that, we can just hope to continue to live in a way where we can continue to love one another and to live out our call in the best way we know how, and president carter will continue to do so even though it may look a little different in the coming months. his responsibilities may shift, and as he turns some responsibilities over, he s going to continue to live out the call that he has received even if in a different way. so we re looking forward to seeing how he s going to continue to do that even as he goes through this treatment. i suspect this will be even more difficult on his wife, roslyn, which, of course, she
thousands of friends, so i don t think living until i will be 91 years old the 1st of october so everything has been a blessing for me so i m thankful and hopeful. president carter, voice of america. i wanted to ask, what has been you said you have sort of taking a pragmatic approach to the treatment and the news, but what has been the most difficult part about the news for you in the past couple weeks? well, i haven t had any difficult treatment aspect yet. the liver surgery was fairly extensive. they removed one-tenth of my liver i understand but it healed up quickly and i had minimal pain. and the first treatment i had yesterday will be followed this afternoon by the radiation, and that will be every three weeks four times and then they will reassess. so i haven t had any unpleasantness yet. is it difficult to step away