Patrick Swayze died less than two years after he was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, a jolt that put the spotlight on a disease that grows silently and can kill quickly.
The actor’s wife, Lisa Niemi Swayze, was by his side until his death in 2009 at the age of 57.
She says she still feels his presence every day.
“His voice is in my head. He comments on what I’m doing. When I need a bolstering up or something’s going on, I can ask him in my head, and I hear exactly what he’s saying, which is generally, ‘Come on, girl, get real,’” Niemi Swayze, 66, tells TODAY.com.
“Just because somebody’s gone doesn’t end your relationship with them. We spent 34 years together, and that’s always going to be a part of my life and who I am.”
The couple married in 1975 when she was 18 and Swayze was 23.
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