PATRICK SWAYZE - SWAYZE HID CANCER PAIN

SWAYZE HID CANCER PAIN

PATRICK SWAYZE's cancer symptoms are so brutal, it took him three hours each morning to get himself fit enough to make the set of his new TV show THE BEAST.
For five months the actor worked Monday to Friday on location in Chicago, Illinois and spent weekends undergoing gruelling chemotherapy in California.
But Swayze was determined to work through the exhausting five month shoot, and hid the excruciating pain he was experiencing from cast and crew - and even his wife Lisa.
During a candid interview with broadcaster Barbara Walters, which aired on U.S. TV on Wednesday (07Jan08), he says, "It was incredibly hard. I was never collapsing on set. No one saw me moan like a girly loser man.
"If I had a six o' clock call, I would wake up at three in the morning to try and get the plumbing going.
"What the cancer does is shut off the exit from your stomach and shut off all the bile ducts in your liver. When you shut off the bile ducts they start dumping all the toxins into your body. That's where the jaundice comes from. That's when you start going downhill fast.
"It takes me hours to get things flowing in both directions. There would be many mornings I'd wake up curled up on a bathmat trying to stifle a scream so I wouldn't wake Lisa."