Posted on 04/15/2009 12:03:51 PM PDT by Steelfish
Patrick Swayze is a shadow of his former self as cancer takes its toll
By Daily Mail Reporter 15th April 2009
Patrick Swayze's pancreatic cancer is clearly exacting a heavy toll on the ailing star.
A rail thin Swayze, now virtually bald having lost his hair as a result of treatment, looked a shadow of his former self during an outing in Los Angeles. With his clothes hanging from his reduced frame, the actor was barely recognisable as he walked to his car.
The 56-year-old edged along the roadside, gripping hold of a nearby post for support as his brother Don waited in a car park to take him to an appointment.
Frail: (Pic in URL) Actor Patrick Swayze was seen in Los Angeles looking startlingly frail, having lost weight and his hair as cancer takes its toll on the Ghost star
US magazine The National Enquirer said the Dirty Dancing star's weight had dropped to just 7st 5lbs (47.6 kilos).
However friend and actress Whoopi Goldberg said: 'You know what, he’s doing what everybody else is doing, he’s taking it one day at a time.
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if the pic is him its so sad...sad that he is even going thru what he is....i saw this pic the other day in the grocery store checkout line tabloid....
Poor man. How sad.
“He may be thin and bald, but he is still beautiful.
You guys are going to hate this, but one of my favorite Swayze movies he plays a transvestite, along with John Legazamo and Wesley Snipes. Too Wong Foo, Thank you for everything, Julie Newmar - he was very good in it.
My husband even enjoyed it, which floored me.
Keep up the fight, Patrick.”
I saw this too, and as improbable as it sounds from the description you gave, this was a good movie, Swayze was excellent, and very believable in the role.
My dad went this way. It is a very cruel way to die.
Over the last ten years I’ve watched lots of things done here — the indecorous, indiscreet and irreverent seem to be the first casualties of the inexperienced.
Posting without looking at any pictures on the thread, this is just a little too ghoulish to me, rewarding the freak paparazzi to lie in wait to photograph a dying man.
Agree: Context and motive matters.
I like him so much.
Hope he gets better.
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