I can’t believe he died…he just had a show on, and I a photo of him looking healthy recently…

Sources say Patrick Swayze’s body will be cremated within 24 hours RadarOnline.com reports, the late-actor’s ashes will be spread across his ranch in New Mexico Swayze loved the ranch and visited whenever he could. He turned his Rancho de Días Alegres (Ranch of Happy Days) into a wildlife preserve and timber farm. Swazye loved the rugged mountains and canyons of his ranch and the cowboy life he led there. (He had his own plane that he would pilot and fly there often.) People in town loved the actor, and he said it was his favorite place in the world. Swayze’s body has been in Los Angeles. (He died Monday after a battle against pancreatic cancer.)

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Radar – Patrick Swayze recently spent a week in the hospital, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.The brave actor, battling pancreatic cancer, has returned home.He has been splitting time between his Los Angeles-area home and his New Mexico ranch.With strong support from his wife Lisa, his brother and other friends and relatives he has survived numerous setbacks.Swayze has been using medical marijuana to easy the pain of his condition. He has looked healthier in photographs taken within the past month but is still in a lot of pain.The National Enquirer reports in its new issue that Swayze was hospitalized because of intestinal bleeding.

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Patrick Swayze Dying from Cancer

Reuters – Patrick Swayze, the “Dirty Dancing” star who is battling pancreatic cancer, has been hospitalized with pneumonia, a television network executive said on Friday. Swayze skipped a round of interviews scheduled to promote his new crime drama “The Beast” on the A&E cable TV network because of his hospitalization, network president Robert DeBitetto told reporters at the Television Critics Association meetings in Los Angeles. A spokeswoman for Swayze confirmed that the actor had been hospitalized in Los Angeles, but declined to provide further details on his condition. 

Swayze was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer last year and told TV interviewer Barbara Walters this week that he might have only two years to live. “I’d say five years is pretty wishful thinking. Two years seems likely if you’re going to believe statistics. I want to last until they find a cure, which means I’d better get a fire under it,” he told Walters. The American Cancer Society says pancreatic cancer has only a 5 percent, five-year survival rate. The majority of patients die within six months. Swayze is known around the world for his role as the dance instructor in 1987’s coming-of-age movie “Dirty Dancing,” which inspired hit stage shows in London, Australia and Canada. He has starred in numerous other movies, including the 1990 hit romance, “Ghost.”

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UsMagazine – Patrick Swayze may be suffering from pancreatic cancer, but he’s still clocking 12-hour days on the set of his new TV drama, The Beast. “I just love to work hard,” the 56-year-old actor tells the New York Times in his first interview since his January diagnosis. “I do find myself, at the end of the day, riding home sort of catching myself with a smile on my face,” he added. “I’m proud of what I’m doing.” The actor has piled on 20 pounds over the past few months by relying on “muscle-building shakes,” he said. Show staffers say he’s only missed a day and a half of work. “I’m still fine to work. I haven’t changed – oh, I have changed, what am I saying?” Swayze admitted. “It’s a battle zone I go though. Chemo, no matter how you cut it, is hell on wheels.”

The actor says he thought he was suffering from a persistent case of indigestion while filming the show’s pilot in December. “Then all of a sudden real symptoms start showing up,” he told the Times. “You see it in the mirror and you go: ‘O.K., better go get checked out.’” Swayze’s reaction after the biopsy and the devastating diagnosis? “Hello, goodbye, welcome to my world.” Swayze has been leaning on his wife of 33 years, Lisa Niemi, for support in fighting the disease. Experts say pancreatic cancer only has a 5 percent five-year survival rate. “How do you nurture a positive attitude when all the statistics say you’re a dead man?” Swayze asked. “You go to work.” The actor says he hasn’t accomplished everything he’s set out to do yet. “There is probably that little bird that flies through your insides and says, ‘I sure would like to make a mark in life,’” he said. “I’ve made a pretty decent mark so far – nothing to scoff at. But it does make you think: Wait a minute. There’s more I want to do. Lots more. Get on with it.”

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