For your sake.
Love.

It would be nice

So much sadness-- the Carters, Jesse Jackson-- all these good people have gone before him.

I hope you can keep on, but no matter what, we'll keep fighting.

I make it until election day...but I'm glad you'll keep fighting

...with this terrible news.

I am sure you have already looked into it, but there are many clinical trials for pancreatic cancer underway. Your oncologist is probably aware of anything promising in your area. Or you can explore centers in your area on your own. For example, here in Seattle, Fred Hutchinson in involved in research involving targeted drugs and genetically modified immune-cell therapies.

Clinicaltrials.gov is more of a scattershot approach, but clinicaltrials.gov results can be narrowed by applying filters like "recruiting" "interventional" "phase X" location, age, and adding "stage X" as a keyword. And then there are sponsors, like the Pancreatic Action Network https://pancan.org/research/

My oncologist is not looking out for clinical trials and I have to start looking myself so thank you for getting me started.

My heart is with you.

And a P.S.
The PanCAN network also provides resources and free consultation. I can't vouch for them because I don't know anyone who has consulted, but it may be a decent place to start: https://pancan.org/facing-pancreatic-cancer/

💕

that you are wrong on both points.

❤️

Cause that's one party we are all looking forward to.
Sending you much warmth and healing vibes

Even though, sadly, there are plenty of replacement monsters

I will remember you when I party.

I am 77 and have had a variety of health problems, including cancer. I hope I outlive the SOB, but it may be a vain hope.

Raise a glass of whatever and celebrate!

I'm so sorry you got that news. My ex husband has had all kinds of treatment for pancreatic cancer. He's been fighting it for years. But his life has been taken over with the treatments. It a hard row to hoe. I wish you a lot of love in whatever time you have left here on this mysterious blue marble in the Milky Way. 💜

I'm very lucky that I have lots of love and support. And I'm glad for all the kind people on DU ❤️

be able to get one-day passes to go down and line up to punch him in the mouth.

That would be great 😁

Me too, if it doesn't get too awful. I really want to dance at the funeral. Usually I'm a nice person but not in this case.

It is a nasty one and very hard to defeat. I hope you are comfortable and have a chance to beat the odds.

My doctors say i won't suffer, at least. I love your name btw

Thank you

Please keep fighting, Laurelin

You are in my thoughts and yes, prayers.

Thank you!

In spades.

🫶🏽🤞🏽🫶🏽

It’s difficult news when there are the beginning signs of progress for some of these intractable cancers. I hope you get a miracle.

Thank you 💖

We're all hoping you still outlive him. Sending hugs.

Thanks! 💗

I need both! ❤️

Look at the sky, walk on earth, smell flowers, pet a furry friend, hug your loved ones (and feel their hugs for you).
Every day you have is better than Dumpy's entire life. You already outlive him.
You will party wherever you are.
Sending love.

That every one of my worst days are better than trump's best. But I think they are!

My garden (and the parks and roadsides) are bursting with daffodils right now. Rhododendrens are blooming and my magnolia is covered in buds. And I have an indoor basket of hyacinths. Pity none of my current furries approve of cuddles or pets though

My heart breaks for you. You're in my thoughts.

❤️‍🩹

Thank you irisblue

If he doesn't die before you do, I will keep you in mind when we have the big celebration here at DU.

My ex-wife died of uterine cancer and my sister Debby died of ovarian cancer. I hate, hate, HATE cancer.

I'm so sorry for your losses. I agree with your politics and your hatred of cancer, and I'm sorry for your losses

Lost my sister to pancreatic cancer. She lived longer than expected yet never long enough. She hated Trump and I think we all felt as you do. Its jyst not fair.

Thank you 💖

That would be great. ❤️

but new treatments keep coming. And I DO hear more positive responses (if not outcomes) as each year passes. My wish for you is to hang on and keep fighting. Some day (like the accidental discovery of penicillin by Fleming) some researcher will get an unexpected EUREKA moment. We just can't know when that moment will occur.

That would be wonderful

I understand there are new treatments for pancreatic cancer, please check them out with your oncologist.

I'll get a second opinion once I've finished all the tests.

Everybody hates trump. We all love you, and hope for the best.

Pancreatic took my wife ten years ago.

And glad you got through.... you know I'm sad to leave my husband...

I hope someone will do the same for me.

Thank you so much!

The real Laurelin is for ever.

? Asking for a friend 🙃

A work of genius in which the writer finds a point in space time that allows one to know everything.

The Aleph

https://web.mit.edu/allanmc/www/borgesaleph.pdf

The search for reply to your excellent question led to the accidental discovery of a little-known writer who may have provided the spark for Borges’ short story:

Lost in translation: Eduarda Mansilla de García on politics, gender, and war

https://www.cervantesvirtual.com/obra-visor/lost-in-translation-eduarda-mansilla-de-garcia-on-politics-gender-and-war/html/3962ad94-a102-11e1-b1fb-00163ebf5e63_3.html

Thank you for helping me discover another universe and share it, my Friend!

You will be in my prayers. With any luck you may be able to outlast trump

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and that he goes before you.

I hope you and all of us Duers are here to celebrate. May love sustain you.

It will be a beautiful day....

There are no words but you arent alone. There are hundreds here rooting for you..

Thank you for rooting for me

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We all hope we get to see this monster stop breathing while we still are.

Miracles do happen and I so pray one will come your way.


Peace be with you.

For your kind thoughts and prayers

There are several studies in the NIH database about Chamomile and more specifically the Apigenin in chamomile having an effect on numerous cancers promoting apoptosis (cancer cell death). I do not recall if it has an effect on pancreatic cancer. I just mention it as drinking chamomile, taking ground chamomile or even apigenin suppliments may be a "can't hurt, may help" scenario.

And might even help me sleep! Thanks.

I prayed for you. It can't hurt.

So thank you!

And keep up the good fight! (I still vote in Pflugerville)

❤️

My best friend in the world lived EIGHT YEARS after his pancreatic cancer diagnosis. It's a tough road ahead, but nothing is certain... so don't give up. xoxo

Thanks for sharing

Find peace and focus on yourself.

I wish you well.

Difficult to follow.... thanks for your kind thoughts!

He may still go first and you could still piss on his grave.

I'm definitely adding "pissing on his grave" to my bucket list!

There are some great treatments out there, especially in other countries. I know that there has been some great work in Spain but I think it's in the early stages

Very best wishes for a good outcome.

I'm looking at Germany for a second opinion but I'll check Spain too!

Let’s plan on enjoying a beverage of choice for that occasion. My hope is that you be able to join us!

Peace ☮️

Thank you. 🥂

🌷⚘️🌷🌸⚘️ (I live in the Netherlands so the extra tulips were necessary)

Aloha, Laurelin. I love Tulips!

💕

And frankly, I’m just focusing on that.

You have healthy habits and that’ll make a difference, Laurelin. Hope you’ll be here with us for a LOOOOONNNNNNNG time to come!

It is good to be here, especially with the bulbs in bloom
🌷🥀

❤️

❤️

What Trump is doing isn't living, it is twitching and generating random reactionary brain impulses.

Can he stop to appreciate the color and smell of roses?
Can he marvel at the innocence of children?
Can he look at the blue sky while contemplating his worth as a human being?

Sympathies to you by the truckload, but you die a much better person than Trump ever was or could have been.

At the age of 77, I feel I'm dying.
It's a slow, irreversible process, with no specific cause at the moment, but I can feel it.
My ambition, if you can call it that, is to die with my mind and soul intact.
That puts you and me one up on Trump in a big way.

I salute you for a life well lived.

I think you'll achieve it.

Thank you! 🩷

not even those with "perfect" health know how long we have. There are so many variables in life.

We all wish you the best. Sometimes the "Big C" will vacate the body as mysteriously as it appears.

Hope for a miracle, and we'll all hope with you.

The atoms of which your present iteration of "Laurelin" is comprised have existed since the dawn of time, and they will continue to exist forever. At worst, you're not going away, you're changing, and none of us know what that change means for us.

The caterpillar 🐛 thought it's life was over, and then became a butterfly. 🦋

You are loved, whether you're the caterpillar or the butterfly. ❤️

🦋

I intend to. Thank you!

vibes Laurelin

I also hope that what you are asking for becomes a reality before that time arrives.

It might.

It might indeed!

Sorry to hear this. I am wishing you the best.

For your kind wishes

I will party my ass off and represent you proudly when he is gone.

Because we blue Texans do know how to party 🥳

May you pop the cork on your champagne and celebrate your life and his death.

Thank you!

spirit.

Today my spirit is a bit of a mess.