Mondale 'getting her strength back' after surgery

Article by: PAUL WALSH , Star Tribune
Updated: September 8, 2009 - 6:02 PM

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Less than a month after surgery for a recurrence of brain cancer, Eleanor Mondale is showing encouraging signs while recovering: traveling, hitting golf balls and hosting her parents for dinner.

Mondale, the 49-year-old WCCO Radio host and daughter of former Vice President Walter Mondale, had her surgery Aug. 12 at the Mayo Clinic.

In a posting over the weekend by her husband, Chan Poling, on Eleanor Mondale's Caringbridge.org Web page, he wrote: "Eleanor is doing well, healing and getting her strength back every day."

Poling said they recently visited Madeline Island in northern Wisconsin. Also, in recent days, he added, "she hit some golf balls with me one day, went out to dinner a couple times, and this morning we went on our usual Saturday morning walk with the dogs."

The couple also had her parents, Walter and Joan Mondale, over for dinner, "cooking up some fresh salmon that Fritz caught in Alaska just last week," Poling wrote.

Eleanor Mondale had been hosting a talk show with Susie Jones since August 2006, but because of her illness, she has been absent since March 19.

Mondale also has worked on television for the E! cable channel and "CBS This Morning."