Patrick Swayze is dying of terminal cancer of the pancreas and has been given five weeks to live. Which, oh my god. SO TERRIBLE.
Although he's been married for a gazillion years, he and wife Lisa Neimi never had children - she had, apparently, multiple miscarriages, and they consequently seem to have shied off of the kids thing - so he's kind of outside the purview of this site's gossip mandate (all parents, all the time), but still - he was a key pop figure on the cultural landscape of every Gen-X/Y man and woman I know, which is to say, my peer group of thirty-something parents, so. Who can't recite half the lines to Dirty Dancing? Nobody my age, that's who. So his impending death just feels, well, terrible and weird. Weren't he and his wife going to soft-shoe in the background of our pop-culture consciences forever?
National Enquirer is breaking the story, which they apparently have on good authority from Swayze and family:
In a shocking world exclusive, The NATIONAL ENQUIRER has uncovered
the devastating news that the beloved Hollywood actor and dancer was
diagnosed in late January with pancreatic cancer that has spread to
other organs.
Full details are in the print edition of the NATIONAL ENQUIRER that goes on sale tomorrow.
For the past month, Patrick, 55, has been traveling to Stanford
University’s prestigious cancer center in Palo Alto for radical
chemotherapy, but his doctors are no longer optimistic that the
treatments will be successful.
Patrick and his wife Lisa Niemi — who both have pilot’s licenses —
have been flying their private Beechcraft plane into Palo Alto’s
airport, minutes away from the Stanford Cancer Center, where the actor
has received outpatient treatment.
He received three doses of chemotherapy and the tumor shrank, but
less than his doctors had hoped for — and Patrick was told he should
prepare for the end.
“He was told he could have two more treatments, but his cancer was
not responding. In short - they held out little hope for a cure,” said
an insider.
Five weeks to live. They're giving him FIVE WEEKS.
So, so terrible.
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