Patrick Swayze died Monday

**KegVaughanacoRocks** Wed Sep 16, 2009 1:54 am

I'm sure everyone knows by now, but it wasn't posted so I wanted to be sure. Patrick Swayze died Monday after a hard battle with pancreatic cancer. There are stories everywhere, so I didn't bother to post any certain one. If you google his name, I'm sure tons will pop up.

It made me very sad, for two reasons both connected to my mom.

First, he has been my mother's only real Hollywood crush for as long as I can remember. She would go watch any movie he was in, just to see him. Also, Dirty Dancing was one of the few VHS movies we owned in the eighties, because if you remember, they were pretty expensive, but she HAD to have it.

Also, less than a year ago, a woman that my mother has worked with for many years died from pancreatic cancer. This woman's daughter works directly for my mom, and so she knew more about how hard it was on her than most. She also was the daughter's main comforter at work, so it was a very emotional thing for her.

To hear that her favorite star was suffering from the same type of cancer that killed her friend, had to be hard. I know that he isn't in any pain anymore, but the world lost a man who I didn't know personally, but who seemed amazingly wonderful and was loved by millions or more.