Patrick Swayze's wife Lisa was on Oprah today and as most of us know............

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he died recently of Pacreatic Cancer. I capitolize and put this in the subject of cancer because it brings some little nubs of sorrow and emotion for me each time I think of it. He was a dear, such a fighter too and i will miss his preformances as I know his wife and family must miss the man too but in a different way because they had that personal closeness with him. My father and mother both died of cancers, my dad's was the pancreatic. He and I had been astranged for many years and we had just gotten back in communication(his wish because he knew he was dying) and I thought I would surely have SOME more time with him. I had wanted to be respectful of him and his side of the family and so I didn't visit him at the Vet's hospital for several days to give his brother and those others time with him. They didn't like me much because of what had transpired years early and the reason we were astranged. My choice, not his and a part of my personality that I am very hard headed and I dislike that about myself. When I did call afew days later and the nurse told me of his passing I was stricken with grief. We hadn't been able to have that time I thought we would. It is something I have had to live with. But- I am also such a romantic and hearing Lisa Niemi speak about her life with Patrick and the love they shared was memorizing. In the movie The Ghost a line that Patrick's character says after he has passed over was: "It's so amazing, the love, you really do take it with you!" And she hopes that is true. They wrote a book together called The Time of My Life and she said they decided to renew their vows. He rode in on a white stallion. What women would not feel weak in the knees at such a thing?! Well, here is the question? Have you known and loved someone who passed of cancer and did you feel them leave their body? Do you still feel them close to you? Do you have any gems of wisdom for those of us who have lost some one to Cancer or that has that in their future? Anyone want to vent something about Cancer? Loved ones? Any stories you want to share about the passing of a loved one from this disease?