I know she’s not always the most popular person but if you just want to say something nasty, send it somewhere else.
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Prayers for Sheila Jackson and her family. 
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I posted before that the comical and sneaky recording of her cursing out her team moved me at least to her leadership style. She was obviously more than a politician. She had a keen understanding of how you win with a unified approach. I didn’t like her but I’ll miss her.
This came as a shock. I either didn’t hear that she had cancer or I forgot. RIP
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I didn’t know she had cancer and was completely shocked. My sister in law’s grandpa was in the same hospital as Patrick Swayze when he had pancreatic cancer. It’s just not a cancer that you can beat at least % wise.
Cancer sucks. RIP, SJL and prayers to our own Dr. Lee and their children.
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Same. I looked it up and she was diagnosed only 6 weeks ago. It all happened very quickly.
My friend of 60 years died of pancreatic cancer in 2023. He displayed no symptoms until it was too late for treatment. He passed 2 months after diagnosis. Pancreatic cancer will ambush anyone contracting it. By the time you realize you have pancreatic cancer, it’s too late.
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She’ll be missed. I didn’t agree with her on some issues, but I deeply respect her tenacity and dedication to the community she represented.
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Not a fan of hers. But rest in peace SJL.
God bless her and her family.
second. i agreed with her politically on nothing i know of but she was extremely smart, yale and uva degrees, determined and driven she was really impressive.
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She spoke at my St. John’s graduation back in 1990.
She was a City Councilwoman at the time.
I totally forgot, she spoke at my UH - Downtown graduation.
Our graduation was at Hofheinz Pavilion. The ceremony was during the Rockets playoff game when Mario Ellie hit his kiss of death shot.
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Yes, it’s a silent killer.
You go from perfectly healthy to dead in 4-8 weeks.
My cousins husband died from this a few years ago he lasted a year once he found out.
Houston legendary comic Bill Hicks died 30 years ago this last February of pancreatic cancer that then attacked his liver. His drinking didn’t help, but in the end pancreatic cancer takes a pretty large percentage of people (88%!) because it’s usually diagnosed too late for cure. Usually around Stage 4 is when they find it.
The pancreas is kind of hidden. Usually another cancer shows up, liver, bile duct, etc and then they find it was the pancreas which, when discovered is so far along there’s nothing to be done except the morphine drip.
My brother in law felt bad at Thanksgiving, got jaundiced the next day. Went to the hospital and diagnosed with liver cancer. After further testing it was the pancreas. He made it to Feb 8.
Sorry for your loss. We’ve been hit hard as a family from cancer. My sympathies.
I’ve heard pancreas cancer that developes next to the intestine usually gets detected early because it strongly interferes with the pancreas function. Whereas whenever it developes more towards the pancreas tip the pancreas can still mostly function and the symptoms arrive too late.
WheleeBoy is an amateur doctor and is accepting patients.
Reading that, I wonder where my father’s was on his pancreas? It’s been so long I can’t remember the image they showed us at MD Anderson.
They diagnosed him with pancreatic cancer but they had caught it very early. The mass was relatively small. My father was also suffering from dementia and based on that & his parents life span we didn’t think he had many years left (nor the strength for chemo). They advised we watch it and only do surgery/chemo if necessary. So, in three months we came in for another scan. No growth. Six months the same. A year the same. Six more months the same…after the next six month checkup they said come back in a year. The next year it still hadn’t grown. He got lucky basically and passed naturally without the pain associated with it a few years later.
During all that my mother was diagnosed with cancer for a 3rd time in her life. She beat it the first two times. The last time I like to say she tied it. That *ucking cancer died with her (six months after my father had passed), so she was 2-0-1 lifetime vs it.
*uck cancer.
My heartfelt condolences to all those who have lost loved ones.
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