Swayze Hid Cancer Pain Message Board and Comments

Patrick, I know what your wife and family are going through, and probably you as well. My husband died of unresectable pancreatic cancer Feb. 2007. He lasted two years after his diognosis. He smoked and didn't change any thing about his life style either. I agree with that 100 % He went to M D Anderson in Houston and got to be in some clinical trials which I think helped. Good Luck to you and my heart goes out to your wife and family. By the way it's interesting that my husband was born June 13, 1952 I guess about two months before you.

I admire your bravery and common sense and truth about your illness. I have to say from experience in my own father's death from cancer (stomache) that for your family every second left will be a precious memory as they spend the rest of their lives, "getting on with their lives". The ache they will ALWAYS feel for you will drive how they operate in other relationships and decisions, and will forever change and affect the way they'll look at life and the world. The great hope of the truth in that line -- "you take the love with you" is important to those who have decades left in life before the hope of reuniting... as they will likely appreciate and exude it...perhaps more in remembrance than when the loved one was alive. Prayers with you and yours... I wish a cure was available. My wife is a massage therapist and believes she has used healing touch to "encapsulate and shrink" tumors. She has had several breast, lung and colon cancer patients and has shown unexplainable positive effects (only one has died, despite poor prognoses for some). She even worked with a pancreatic cancer patient, who was at the same time getting experimental care at Johns-Hopkins. Whether she had an effect is unknown, but he went from a 6 week to 6 months prognosis to 18 months...from when she started working with him, before he succumbed. She was massaging him, around his chemo and medical treatment schedule, twice a week. He didn't believe in the "energy work" but appreciated the massage, as a comfort allowing sleep after the chemo. When he realized his life was extending, he gradually went back to a grueling work schedule and stopped the massage. After a couple of months off the treatment, though he was continuing medical treatments, the cancer returned. My wife was frustrated that he didn't believe in the massage "energy work" and possibly lost a chance for recovery. Anyway, Patrick, you might consider finding a massage therapist that does healing energy work. There's a lot that medicine doesn't accept about the harmonic effects on cells, involved in "energy work". Something to consider, respectfully. Lastly, I liked your work as an actor. But in your final communications to the public, you present a fine honest convicting soul and example. Thanks for reaching out to a world of souls in need of such an example.

Patrick, I have been a fan of your's for many years. I'm sorry to hear of your illness. God Bless you and your sweetheart, and family. My prayers are with you all. By the way your story of what you've gone through brought tears to my eyes. Be blessed, and love to you both, Ms. Andrée (Al-Anon Spice)

patrick and lisa, i read your emails sent to me and i cant help myself to sit there and cry,as i lost my dear mother to the same illness and gave up working to nurse her.i understand where you are coming from when you say about the pain killers my mother felt the same,i fill so sad for you and for lisa 36yrs is a long time,it must have been very touching to have renewed your vows fairytale fashion i can see patrick as prince charming.my heart is with you both have strength.