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Steve looks really sick, poor guy
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You are correct. He has a rare form of pancreatic cancer that is more easily put into remission if caught early enough. The thing is, Steve was always living on borrowed time. As a health care professional, pancreatic cancer is probably the worst form of cancer to have. Most health care professionals agree, but it is more so an opinion, not fact. The fact that Steve needed the liver transplant back in 2009 was fact that his cancer had spread. Once pancreatic cancer begins it's metastatic process, it is only a matter of time. And while his pancreatic cancer was more treatable than common adenocarcinoma, the prognosis is only slightly better, at best. The 5 year survival rate of pancreatic cancer is 6%, and the 10 year is a fraction of that number.
This post is not meant to be harsh towards Steve at all, I am just stating medical facts, as I am a nurse and and have seen similar cases. I wish Steve only the best, and my prayers are with him, his family and friends during this difficult time. The other thing to remember with cancer though is that no one experiences cancer in the same way. Treatment works differently for every cancer patient. Statistics are more so just averages, and you can't give a patient an amount of time they have left, no one can.
EDIT: In regards to the picture appearing at all online, I feel it is just wrong. A patients privacy is my top priority every day. Maybe this picture wasn't taken at a clinic or doctors office, but still, to post a picture of someone who wants to remain private with their illness is just a disgusting thing. TMZ should be ashamed of themselves, and get back to stories about Hollywood DUI's.
Utterly shameful. No man wants to be seen that way, public figure or not--and regardless of one's opinion of the man or his business practices--this was simply despicable.
There are some things you just don't do.
There are some things you just don't do.
It's not Steve Jobs. I'm certain. First of all, Steve would NOT be so ill as to let some **** show him off like a freak. Look at how that other guy is holding him and looking at the camera. (Like Steve's will has left him.....NOT )
Also, it seems like some kind Semitic setting. perhaps Hassidic (hence the garb).
What a bunch of suckers.
Also, it seems like some kind Semitic setting. perhaps Hassidic (hence the garb).
What a bunch of suckers.
This picture is Photoshop peopleeee! Look below his dress! Steve would not be wearing a dress like that! And if this photo is real... Steve will sue who ever took the picture!
That's a real pic and he is in a hospital gown.
I can't believe people on here think it's fake, talk about denial... or dumb. The pic does not look "p-shopped" and it's clearly him as people have seen him in recent months and weeks and mentioned how frailer and frailer he's getting.
Obviously some people on here have never seen what Cancer does to a body... well look at that pic and now you'll know.
Obviously some people on here have never seen what Cancer does to a body... well look at that pic and now you'll know.
When you want a photo to be fake/Photoshopped, ever minor artifact and 'odd' thing becomes 'proof.'
Sadly, I would say this is real. Someone else mentioned Steve's being named "chairman" as a way to soften the blow (both to financially and otherwise)...I agree.
Sadly, I would say this is real. Someone else mentioned Steve's being named "chairman" as a way to soften the blow (both to financially and otherwise)...I agree.
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Wow.... if this picture is real I am really saddened by how quickly his health has deteriorated from WWDC. If this rate of deterioration continues... well I hate to say it, but he is certainly fighting for his life...
Please Steve, enjoy your family and take care of your health...
^^^great quote. Very appropriate.
Please Steve, enjoy your family and take care of your health...
^^^great quote. Very appropriate.
The picture is most probably real, however I wouldn't read too much into it.
I don't think it's terminal cancer: he wouldn't be walking in a street if so, my guess is that he's actually recovering from an even poorer condition and "exercising".
It has been reported that the transplantation left him with alimentation difficulties and immune system deficiencies, it may just had been quite bad lately and getting slightly better, hence the walk in the street.
Gruesome image nevertheless.
I don't think it's terminal cancer: he wouldn't be walking in a street if so, my guess is that he's actually recovering from an even poorer condition and "exercising".
It has been reported that the transplantation left him with alimentation difficulties and immune system deficiencies, it may just had been quite bad lately and getting slightly better, hence the walk in the street.
Gruesome image nevertheless.
The picture is real guys, why are so many of you denying it?
People who have posted that it's him have been downranked...the truth hurts
People who have posted that it's him have been downranked...the truth hurts
God forbid anyone talk about or post an update picture of the most popular CEO, and perhaps man in the world.
Fanboy ignorance knows all boundaries. Many of you need a day in the sun.
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Why is he wearing a black dress, what a bizarre photo
Black, heat. "Dress" is more of a hospital gown , but less medical looking. In his state he can't wear binding clothing.
I'd say it's definitely him because it's very obviously at his house. The person who mentioned checking on Google maps made a very good point. Check it out for yourself,
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2101+...=51NaFiocegHw_P3YNTFFrw&cbp=12,128.74,,1,9.55
I doubt anyone would fake that location that well.
The question is, is the photo edited at all to make it worse. It's VERY obviously Steve, in his drive way, there is no question of that. I'd not unreasonable to believe this is real, and it's a damn shame.
http://maps.google.com/maps?q=2101+...=51NaFiocegHw_P3YNTFFrw&cbp=12,128.74,,1,9.55
I doubt anyone would fake that location that well.
The question is, is the photo edited at all to make it worse. It's VERY obviously Steve, in his drive way, there is no question of that. I'd not unreasonable to believe this is real, and it's a damn shame.
Steve! Ohhh this makes me so sad. I think the pictures are real. I'd love to pretend they aren't.
this makes me so sad. I think the pictures are real. I'd love to pretend they aren't.As someone mentioned, google street view shows this same angle. Plus that lexus in the pic is also in the street view (parked on road next to drive way)
Link: http://goo.gl/Qc7QI
Link: http://goo.gl/Qc7QI
I noticed that as well. What shocked me though is that he doesn't park in a garage or even behind the gate.
Hate to say it, but pancreatic cancer is almost always terminal. It's really one of the worst kinds out there. My grandfather had it, and my mom's aunt (his sister) had it, and both of them died within a year of diagnoses. Frankly, it's amazing Steve has lived this long with it.
All cancers suck, but pancreatic is the worst one there is.
I've lost loved ones to pancreatic cancer myself; you're right, it's an unfathomably terrible disease. However, for years it's been understood (or at least reported) that Jobs had a very rare, treatable type of pancreatic cancer. It's apparently very different than the disease with which we are too familiar.
It was probably deleted because at one time there were multiple threads about the same picture.
Thats because he had a very rare kind of pancreatic cancer that allowed for the "whipple procedure", which has a much higher (but still dreadfully low) survival rate. At this point, however, its definite that it has a returned, or a complication from the procedure has taken its toll.
Either way, love him or hate him, Jobs has been one of modern age's technological visionaries and an economic titan.
