If Chuck Hagel can call a widely-hyped press conference to announce that he’s decided that he isn’t going to decide anything for a while, could today’s Edwards press conference be that Mrs. Edwards’ health diagnosis is fine?

Here’s hoping.

The description provided to the AP seems to lean towards good news (why attend a fundraiser if events are forcing him to put his campaign on hold?) but also sounds a little ominous about the upcoming news conference…

Campaign officials refused to answer any questions about what the couple learned at the doctor’s appointment or how it might affect Edwards’ second presidential bid. Edwards had cut short a trip to Iowa to be with his wife but still attended a barbecue fundraiser Wednesday evening in Chapel Hill, their hometown.
The campaign had said Mrs. Edwards, 57, had a follow-up appointment Wednesday to a routine test she had Monday. The campaign explained that she had similar follow-ups in the past but they always resulted in a clean bill of health.
The campaign refused to describe what happened this time.

It’s been a weird campaign already. Warner dropping out before the campaign starts after what seemed like serious preparations, Vilsack’s blink-and-you-missed-it effort… If events force Edwards from the race, it will be one more reminder that no one can accurately predict what will happen tomorrow, never mind in 2008…

UPDATE: This sentence in the New York Times doesn’t sound good…

Mrs. Edwards, in a brief interview from her home in Chapel Hill, said she and Mr. Edwards would discuss her health at the news conference, but she declined to elaborate.
“I’m still here,” she said.

One last line that sounds like we’re being prepared for bad news, from the Washington Post’s account:

On Wednesday night, Edwards’s advisers declined to discuss his wife’s health, saying she would speak for herself on Thursday. But they did not play down the seriousness of the announcement.

Just now: Bill Schneider on CNN: Sources say don’t necessarily expect the worst.

Suspending the campaign? She’s leaving the campaign to recuperate, but the campaign continues?