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Jilly_in_VA

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4. Me either

Reply to Norbert (Reply #2)

Tue Dec 23, 2025, 11:00 AM

22 hrs ago

My son-in-law's mother died of it. One day she was perfectly healthy, the next day she "hit a wall" while running (she was an avid runner), went to the doctor who orderedan ultrasound, and was diagnosed with Stage 4 pancreatic cancer. She died the following spring, not long after the graduation party for our grandson Isaiah.

As my friend Lindsey Marie said when I told her, "Pancreatic cancer is rattlesnake cancer." I knew exactly what she meant.

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