I hope Patrick's interview with Barbara brings more attention to this horrible disease...and with it more funding for research. I've always like PS (Dirty Dancing loser here) and he looked like death already had hold of him in that interview.
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Oh, Brokemom - that's awful. I'm so sorry.
I hope Patrick's interview with Barbara brings more attention to this horrible disease...and with it more funding for research. I've always like PS (Dirty Dancing loser here) and he looked like death already had hold of him in that interview. |
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Oddly enough, within days of Swayze going public with his illness, my doctor found a tumor on my pancreas. After months of consultations with different
physicians, and pissing matches with the insurance company weekly, a surgeon 100 miles away agreed to remove it along with the tail of my pancreas and my
entire spleen. I am one of the lucky ones that had a benign tumor. So sorry to those of you who have lost someone...
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izad |
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*hug* {{BroMo}} *hug*
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Guatevia |
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MsAgainSt8,
How did the doctors find your tumor? Were you having problems, or did they find it during a routine check-up? |
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MsAgainSt8 |
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For a few weeks, I was having problems keeping food down and sharp pains just under my left rib cage. At first I thought it was just the flu. I went to the
hospital after my sugar bottomed out and they ordered a CT scan. That is when they found it. Ater that, I had an abdominal ultrasound, another CT and 2 scopes,
which all confirmed the same thing.
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NiceToAnimals |
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Soooooo...anyone hear any good jokes lately??
ANYONE? (Seriously, though, sorry to BrokeMom and glad you're OK to MsAgainSt8) |
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jamesriver |
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So sorry, Brokemom. It took my grandma. It's a shitty disease.
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WoodstockZ |
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Yes, Michael Landon was diagnosed with and eventually died of pancreatic cancer. Pancreatitis is an extremely painful condition.
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iltwaaf |
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It must be weird knowing you're going to die.
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buried out back |
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Even more weird to know that the entire world knows that you're going to die and are putting you in their deathpools, I'd imagine.
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WoodstockZ |
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Everyone dies, it's inevitable not weird.
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buried out back |
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Thank you for pointing that out.
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squashthebeef |
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Michael Landon was worth ten Patrick Swayzes. T E N!
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NiceToAnimals |
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I'll see your Michael Landon and raise you a Gregory Hines.
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buried out back |
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Michael Landon had a weirdly shaped body. He needed to die.
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WoodstockZ |
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You had to love his hair, he had great hair.
Morphine is a great painkiller, do it long enough it is just a killer. |
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CBRetriever |
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so sorry bromo - my husband recently had an inflamation of the pancreas that had him puking and in constant pain, so I have some sense of what you went through
- the worst part is being so helpless to do anything for them
<3 bromo |
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MidnightPrince69 |
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^^^^<3 <3
Hi, honey. Patrick <3 |
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Guatevia |
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The most freakish thing about that Barbara Walters special is that they played the clip from Ghost where glowing Patrick Swayze says "The love you have
inside, you take it with you" and then walks into the light. You couldn't find a better clip to showcase Patrick's work? Really?
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memyselfandi |
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Clearly they played the clip of him glowing as a ghost and walking into a light because of the whole INCURABLE CANCER SO HE'S GOING TO DIE angle. But guess
that was too subtle for you?
What would you have preferred they showed of Swayze's work? Him saying "Nobody puts baby in a corner"? Him in drag for "To Wong Foo..."? Him with Chris Farley in the Chippendale's sketch on SNL? |
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