Originally Posted by
DonFan
Did anyone see Patrick and his wife Lisa on the Barbara Walters special last night? Although he looked very thin, he & Lisa looked very sweet together, and I was so moved by their description of how they are dealing with this. I admired Patrick's honesty and his courage in fighting his disease. He is responding to treatment and has already lived longer than most people in stage 4 cancer, and he vowed to fight it with every breath.
As I watched the show I was thinking about a friend of mine who was diagnosed with the same thing, stage 4 pancreatic cancer, last Sept. I tried to call her this morning to tell her about it, but when I logged on my computer I received an email from her husband telling me she had passed away last night, and I burst into tears. I had just talked to her over Christmas and I thought she was holding her own, so this was quite a shock. She only lived three months after the diagnosis.
I wish someone would eradicate the word CANCER completely! I am so tired of losing friends and loved ones to this horrible disease!