Patrick Swayze's widow, Lisa Niemi Swayze, is opening up about the difficult journey following his cancer diagnosis. During a recent appearance on the 'Amy and T.J. Podcast,' Lisa shared Patrick's initial reaction to hearing he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer in January 2008. 'When he first found out he had pancreatic cancer he turned to me and said, 'I’m a dead man,'' Lisa said on the podcast.
After finding out about her husband's diagnosis, she shared he was still 'pretty knocked out,' and she didn't want to 'tell him when he was woozy.' She chose instead to wait, adding when she woke up from a nap in the hospital room a few hours later she found 'the doctor was sitting across from him, and he was in the bed,' saying, 'I knew the doctor had just told him.
Your life turns on a dime, and it’s just never gonna be the same after that,' she explained. 'Everything shifted. We always called ourselves optimistic realists, because we knew in all likelihood how this was gonna turn out, but we held out that he would be the one to make it through it, because miracles do happen. We kept so positive about everything, but I tell you what, it was like living in a complete nightmare 24/7.
The couple met when Lisa was 15 and Patrick was 19, at his mother's ballet school in Houston, Texas, later getting married in 1975. The two were together for 34 years, with Lisa staying by his side until his death in September 2009. 'She was different than anyone I'd known. Like a flower. If I started my macho stuff, she'd cut me off fast,' Patrick told People in 1984. 'I'd be dead without her. She helped me break my self-destructive tendencies.
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