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olds

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It really is.
My wife's twin sister got a swollen leg about a week ago. A couple of days ago she got a cough.
Yesterday, she was cleaning house and felt weak so she laid down. She was dead within a minute.
Today they did the autopsy and say she died from pancreatic cancer. No one knew she had it.

RIP, Penny. 5/13/52 - 9/7/11

I had some of the same symptoms about a month ago that are listed here, doc still doesn't know what is wrong with me:
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nageov3t

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that sucks :(

my grandfather died from pancreatic cancer... I was with him in August and he was feeling under the weather; he was diagnosed that September, and we buried him on Easter weekend of the same year.
 
AreaCode707

AreaCode707

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Oh wow, how incredibly awful....

My little sisters are twins, 16. I cannot imagine one of them losing the other, even later in life. What a gut-wrenching experience. Your poor wife. :(

I am so sorry for you and your family. May peace be with you all.
 
Specop 007

Specop 007

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My aunt passed from that. The only upside, if there is one, is one doesnt suffer long with that. Some cancers take years, if nothing else are least this one is quick.
 
FelixDeCat

FelixDeCat

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Sorry to hear about this. The older I get the more I think about it. Any minute could be the last.
 
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911paramedic

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Sorry Olds. From what you were describing I thought she had a pulmonary embolism, but pancreatic cancer is one aggressive sob.

My thoughts are with you and your family.
 
lxskllr

lxskllr

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My condolences :'^(

That's what my father, and and aunt died from, but they both knew about it for several months.
 
GuitarDaddy

GuitarDaddy

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Very sorry for your loss

I lost one of my best friends to this horrible cancer last year :(

He went to the emergency room in late Feb because his co workers noticed his skin was yellowish and the whites of his eyes were yellowish (jaundice). They told him his billup tube between the pancreas and liver was blocked and put in a temporary stint and his color returned to normal but they told him there was a 80% chance he had pancreatic cancer. Two weeks later in March they confirmed a tumor on his pancreas with endoscopic sonogram and started a course of daily radiation treatments in conjunction with very mild chemo.

This continued until June when he got really sick again and they went in again and replace the temp stint with a permenant stint and once again he seemed to get better. He woke up on July 20th throwing up blood and was taken to the hospital where they pumped three bags of blood into him and sent him in for emergency exploratory surgery. He died on the operating table, the doctors said the tumor was leaning on a major artery and eventually ruptured it causing him to bleed out.

This type cancer is such a killer because of where the pancreas lies in the body, it's wedged between the heart, liver and stomach and is surronded by major arteries, because of this something like 80% of tumors on the pancreas are inoperable. Although it is not normally as sudden as in the OP the statistics for this type of cancer are gruesome. It is often not diagnosed until it's too late, 75% of patients die within a year of being diagnosed and 95% die within 5yrs.

If given the choice I think I would rather go suddenly like the OP's sister in law. Although the few months warning gave my buddy some time to settle his affairs and update his will it was an absolutely horrible time for him. He went through shock then denial, then hope which was quickly dashed when the doctor confirmed his tumor was inoperable to utter dispair. I would not wish that on anybody.
 
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olds

olds

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Thanks for the well wishes.

lxskllr said:
My condolences :'^(

That's what my father, and and aunt died from, but they both knew about it for several months.
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My wife's mother and uncle (mother's brother) died from it too. :'(
 
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coreyb

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sorry for your loss.

the symptoms look pretty serious though, how did she not notice earlier?
 
gaidensensei

gaidensensei

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DixyCrat said:
This is not a fast cancer... it is simply one that they detect very late in it's growth stages.
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the aforementioned have already passed, friend.

olds, sorry to hear this. There's the saying in cancer intervention that if they never seemed sick from anything, it's always pancreatic, ovarian, or prostate in the end.
 
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