Posted on 03/06/2019 2:18:20 PM PST by T-Bird45
My FIL was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He flew out to the Mayo clinic to see a top specialist. After a battery of tests the specialist told him to go home and settle his affairs. A week later he was dead. One month from the initial diagnosis.
He was 65 and had retired from 40+ years as a junior high school teacher just 6 months before.
I watch Jeopardy & Wheel of Fortune every weekday with my mom unless I am sleeping. I feel bad for him and his family. He was interviewed by Harvey Levin on Fox fairly recently and it was interesting. My mom is upset, thought I must be joking (I don’t joke about this type of thing).
Jobs could have survived if he hadn’t waited so long to get conventional treatment. He had a rare neuroendocrine tumor and could have had surgery. I had the same type of cancer and now I’m a 11 year survivor.
So sad. I’m sorry for your loss.
Actually, they are somewhat better than that.
Read the seventh and eight paragraphs:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/11/141120123234.htm
It cured a relative’s liver cancer.
“And then there are people like RBG...”
Just goes to show that the formula for a long life is to be a bitter, old liberal.
“He’s 78 and had some health problems but he looks and sounds good in the video. I wish him well”
Reminds me of Michael Landon (little Joe) He looked healthy when he announced his Pancreatic cancer diagnosis and was gone in 3 months at age 54. Same way my father in law went.
Quite a different deal. Pancreatic cancer is a death sentence.
Ditto for a friend of mine here in VA. She was being screened for something else and the docs stumbled upon Stage 1.
That’s very sad. Hope he makes it.
Probably too late for Alex but hopefully something comes of this.
Jobs was diagnosed with a rare form of pancreatic cancer in 2004. He underwent a liver transplant in Memphis in 2009, after the disease spread beyond his pancreas. There was some controversy about that; Jobs put himself on multiple transplant lists at several different facilities, including Methodist Hospital in Memphis, where the surgery was performed. Average waiting time at Methodist (at the time) was a little over three months; at other transplant centers, the typical wait was more than a year. Jobs lived a little more than two years after receiving a new liver.
During his recovery, the Apple founder lived in a house he purchased in Memphis for $850,000. After Jobs returned to California, the transplant surgeon moved into the house, and apparently lived there rent-free for two years until 2011. Jobs’ lawyer paid the property taxes and utilities until the doctor bought the house for the same price—$850,000—in 2011. The surgeon was going through a divorce after operating on Jobs and he let his physician stay there in gratitude for giving him a little more time.
The odds of beating stage 4 pancreatic cancer is probably close to zero.
Prayers for Mr. Trebek.
Really! Did not know that.
Love the show and praying for Alex. Get well soon!
Years ago, a client and his wife sat across my desk and told me she had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. She felt good at that point. Doctor gave her a 50% chance of survival. They were optimistic.
Dead within two months.
I’ve had other, similar experiences since.
Huge fan. Beams and prayers to Mr Trebek and family. Very sad to hear this news
It may be “a sickness unto death”
Or, a sickness to show the Glory of the Lord.
I pray for the latter...
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