Patrick Swayze has cancer

[jenk1]

sad news

hope he pulls through.

I like dirty dancing and shes like the wind too!! Hes sooo sexy, n i used to close my eyes and pretend that i was baby..lucky cow!! i know it's very sad..i have dirty dancing soundtrack on vinyl,cd and the dvd and used to have the video!! And my bedroom used to be covered in posters..so very very sad!!

Well I know more about your DH's cancer now MB thanks to Doctor Hilary on GMTV (Can I state I usually watch BBC? Would you believe me? It is true).
Makes me realise all the more how exceptionally well he has done and how very well his treatment has gone. And makes me admire you all the more for coping and looking after your family while faced with this the way you have done. The fact Patrick Swayze has this is a real sad shock and yet there are others like your DH coping with it everyday.
I wish you continued extended wonderful family time .

It's true, not just a tabloid story .

A lot of people only know his style from Dirty Dancing, but he is an incredible ballet dancer, as is his wife - that's how they met!

He's danced nearly all his life, as his mother was a choreographer and ran a school of dance.

Interesting bit of trivia is that he was not the original choice for the lead in Dirty Dancing. Some other big actor was, but the guy just couldn't dance to save himself, despite some instruction.

Yes Arlene Phillips was on GMTV too saying that he is a truly talented dancer and can do it all......

He loves dance!

And I swear the sexiest pas de deux I ever saw was him dancing a scene from 'Swan Lake' with his wife.

You could see the passion for each other and for ballet in every move.

Hope the fitness and strength and discipline he has from a lifetime of dance serve him well in his struggle .

Hear hear. He is a beautiful mover and just so strong.....

I saw him a while ago on Jonathon Ross's show talking about a stage show he had done in London and about his early dancing career and he seemed like a lovely man.

I remember seeing DD at our University Film Soc and all of us girlies walked home afterwards wishing we could dance. The boys were not impressed.

Sad news for him and his family.

He and his wife are utterly devoted to each other and have been together since she was 15 and he was 19.

She is a beautiful ballerina.

Thank you for your very kinds words VP, dh has been very fortunate.

Pancreatic cancer is about as lethal as cancers get

I#m having a really shit day today, and had to take the day off work, as I just broke down crying in the car after dropping the kids at school.

It doesn't happen often, and it will pass. But it is so hard to watch someone you love going throgh all of this stuff

I always like him. I found him physically attractive. But more than anything I liked him and I loved his devotion to his wife. I liked him most becasue he said that his wife and family came first.
Oh what a lovely man.
And his wife, whom I too saw him dance with, is so lovely and beautiful.
And they were just made for eachother.

Oh MB. We can't imagine. I am so glad you have taken today. You have the drain on Monday hanging over you too and all this publicity and talk of the very serious nature of pancreatic cancer must be ramming it home hard. You cope because you have to, but you are so positive through all of this...As I said we can't imagine and we can't feel the pain, but we wish we could share it. I don't even know if posts like this help or not but anyway know there are LOTS of us thinking of you .

Yes MB , , how are you?

oddly it isn't all the talk of the seriousness that is the issue. It is the understandable desire for people to hope for the best and that he will be 'fine in the end'. Because I know that isn't going to happen (unless he is astonishingly fortunate).

sorry to be a downer

No, I did not know that the chances were so...
Glad you told me.

No. That is honest. That is basically what Doctor Hilary said. He won't be OK . I hope he will have time like your DH but either way it is a wicked disease and . This brings it home in a public way. I adore Patrick Swayze and he is part of my growing up and I feel sad, so I am especially thinking of you too.

We knew that it was going to be bad news, and we had a fairly good idea it was going to be very bad, because they called us into the hospital on a Saturday, and there was a nurse with the doctor.

Initially we were told 1-2 years would be a very good outcome. 3 days later we were given 3-6 months.

Dh has now surpassed that, and is having the 1-2 years of good prognosis, but this is almost 100% fatal within 5 years, far less when it has spread, as it has with dh.

Ironically he had none of the risk factors, and was a very fit and healthy teetotal guy.

so fucking unfair

Very very fucking unfair!

I remember your threads from the start. Coping with the rollercoaster highs and lows in itself must be exhausting not to mention the reality you face...and as a scientific person too you almost know too much...

TBH I knew that it was very bad before he was admitted to the hospital. He had the most awful abdominal swelling and i was sure it was fluid build up. His GP kept ignoring it, but eventually he refered him. The consultant 'thought' it was fluid and got him admitted for tests. As soon as that happened I knew that he must have something drastically wrong with his liver.

It was very, very hard. A little knowledge is a dangerous thing

I remember. We were all trying to be reassuring but you knew .
Ignorance is bliss sometimes that is for sure.
But, you have been in a better position to understand his treatment and help him cope so it is a good thing too.

I must sound like a stalker now .

and a very nice stalker oyu are too!

he has done well, in part because he is 'lucky' that the tumour responded, and also because the staff looking after him have been so very, very good. And, I think, because we are fairly young, with young kids, they really go the extra mile for him.

He is being treated at the most amazing cancer hospital. My brother was treated there (although not for pancreatic cancer) and I really believe that he wouldn't be alive today if he had been anywhere else.

MB - for you. You and your DH are an inspiration to so many of us. You one of the the bravest, most gallant people I have ever known - online or off.

You know the good thing about Patrick Swayze? he's still here, still gorgeous and still makes me have a flippy belly when I think of the scene in his cabin with Baby.....lordy...pheweeeee!

Good to hear MB and Rosa.

MB - My DH is RAF too so I remembered you as a poster before your dh's illness. Anyway off for the school run now. As I said before MB wishing you continued extended happy family time. And Good Luck on Monday. Will be thinking of you .