Posted on 10/20/2024 7:09:14 PM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
Melissa Gilbert witnessed her TV dad, Michael Landon, fight a debilitating disease that ultimately took his life.
At age 54, the actor who played patriarch Charles Ingalls in "Little House on the Prairie" was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He died three months after publicly announcing his diagnosis in 1991.
"It is really a brutal and pernicious disease," Gilbert told People magazine. "To me, it felt like a tornado. You have no warning. It’s just there and the survival rate is virtually nil."
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He did top quality tv from Bonanza on
I also loved Highway to Heaven.
I remember Michael Landon's death. I was so saddened by his loss.
I loved him as “Little Joe” on Bonanza, and then as Pa Ingalls.
My grandpa had pancreatic cancer. I don’t know how long we had him after his diagnosis. Maybe 2 months at most? It’s a bit foggy at this point, some 50 years later. I was just a kid. It was fast. He was in bad shape. Nobody should be in pain like that.
I remember him going on Johnny Carson to talk about it...his newly diagnosed cancer...then just a few months later he was gone. Little House was a good series. Even my grandma in England got to watch it. She loved Westerns and books about the West. My mom said she knew a lot of the names in the United States because of her reading of western books. :)
My father had prostate and bone. Died at 59 year’s old
Little Joe on the Prairie.
I’m so sorry. That’s a tough loss.
Love it!
From what I have heard many cast members got cancer due to filming on the Santa susana mountains large cancer cluster over there
During COVID and everything in lockdown I watched a LOT of Little House on the Prairie. Really came to like that series.
My step sister has just been diagnosed with Metastatic pancreatic cancer. 2-4 months without treatment, 4-6 with treatment.
The treatment is BRUTAL. I don’t know if she has made a decision on treatment. Hell of a choice.
Still as sweet as she was 52 years ago when she was 16 and I first met her. Her mother (91) is in good health and mentally very sharp. I know this is devastating for them.
30+ years ago. What’s up?
Thank you 🙏
I’m so sorry
‘Little House on the Prairie’ star Melissa Gilbert says Michael Landon’s ‘brutal’ cancer ‘decimated him’
Well, yeah. He’s dead so...
My mom died 3 months after being diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. Most times there’s no warning, no symptoms, nothing until it’s too late. Thank God she was never in much pain before she died.
A decent fella
I don’t want to sound trite, but, besides prayer, she should try ivermectin and a carnivore diet; couldn’t hurt, might help.
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