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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 07:32 PM Original message |
Boy, you know Jobs had the best medical care money could buy and it still didn't get him past 56 |
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KittyWampus (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 07:34 PM Response to Original message |
1. let's be sure we all try to fulfill our potential, eh? |
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justiceischeap (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 07:35 PM Response to Original message |
2. Pancreatic cancer is tough to beat |
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maddezmom (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 07:35 PM Response to Original message |
3. so right |
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teddy51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 07:35 PM Response to Original message |
4. With a cancer like he had, he was very lucky to live the length of time he did. |
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GreenPartyVoter (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 07:37 PM Response to Reply #4 |
6. Yes, it probably was. :^( I know it was when my MIL passed. |
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DFW (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 06:07 AM Response to Reply #4 |
28. Pancreatic cancer took my father |
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TheCowsCameHome (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 07:36 PM Response to Original message |
5. There are some things money can't buy. |
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aquart (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 07:38 PM Response to Original message |
7. Past. |
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NNN0LHI (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 07:41 PM Response to Reply #7 |
10. Thank you. I knew something wasn't right there. Just couldn't put my finder on it |
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Mz Pip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 07:39 PM Response to Original message |
8. Some things wikll kill you |
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teddy51 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 07:49 PM Response to Reply #8 |
13. With that kind of cancer, I don't think that I would have wanted his money |
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JI7 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 07:39 PM Response to Original message |
9. i think he did live longer than most people who get pancreatic cancer |
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Bake (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 07:44 PM Response to Reply #9 |
11. His was a pretty rare (1% of cases) slow-growing kind. |
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Dawgs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 08:20 PM Response to Reply #9 |
16. My dad lasted 5-6 months after being diagnosed. He died 4 months ago. |
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grasswire (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 08:25 PM Response to Reply #16 |
17. my mom lasted three months |
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iris27 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 11:49 PM Response to Reply #17 |
22. My grandmother lasted nine weeks, and that was with a round of chemotherapy to try and |
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dkf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 07:45 PM Response to Original message |
12. A sobering thought indeed. |
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EFerrari (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 07:51 PM Response to Original message |
14. He grew up less than a mile away from us in Silicon Valley. |
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Poll_Blind (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 08:01 PM Response to Original message |
15. There's a reason he received his liver transplant in Memphis when he lived in California. |
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REP (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 03:54 AM Response to Reply #15 |
25. Same reason I will be multiple-listed when I neec a kidney tx - I have a very rare blood type |
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Ezlivin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 08:30 PM Response to Original message |
18. Christopher Reeve didn't make it past 52 |
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nolabear (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 08:32 PM Response to Original message |
19. It is precious, and finite. As Warren Zevon said, "Enjoy every sandwich." |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 08:42 PM Response to Original message |
20. so much for an Apple a day nt |
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Mz Pip (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 10:41 PM Response to Original message |
21. Ruth Ginsberg had it |
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Tom Ripley (418 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Oct-05-11 11:56 PM Response to Original message |
23. But that medical care got him to 56 |
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JNelson6563 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 01:11 AM Response to Original message |
24. I thought of this too Don. |
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Major Hogwash (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 04:28 AM Response to Original message |
26. Life is a crap shoot. Sometimes people who drink like a fish live to be 90, others die before their |
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SmileyRose (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Thu Oct-06-11 05:57 AM Response to Original message |
27. Nobody gets out alive. |
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