Wendy Richards is dying!

[knip]

Ok this is a forum mostly populated with blokes but im sure there are SOME of you on here who watched Eastenders (and the other programmes she was in) and will know Wendy Richards as Pauling Fowler.

She has terminal cancer of the kidney and bones, and has been told she is dying.

Very sad, yes she was mostly a miserable so and so in Enders, but I grew up watching her on screen, and she will be missed.

 

[aslco]

aww sad news! Is she going to continue acting till her death.

 

[Ice Rich]

Never nice to hear that regardless of who the person is, best of luck to her and her family.

 

[knip]

aww sad news! Is she going to continue acting till her death.

Dont know, they have just said she intends to marry her long term partner soon.
Her health has deteriorated apparently due to some of the treatment she has had doing more harm than good.

 

[Slinwagh]

aww sad news! Is she going to continue acting till her death.

I am not sure the miserable sour face cow ever acted, she was just herself.

 

[Van Hellseek]

I am not sure the miserable sour face cow ever acted, she was just herself.

Indeed. I wouldn't wish cancer on anybody, but Wendy Richard is an ugly hag who can't act, and only got famous in the first place for her horrible screeching in a mildly popular pop song.

I really don't feel any 'extra' sympathy for celebs with cancer when there are so many 'normal' people suffering the same thing (and worse) who will not get the same level of sympathy/support.

I'm sorry to hear that she has cancer, but that changes nothing about what I think of her 'work'.

 

[Slinwagh]

She is getting married, I always thought she was a butch lesbian to be honest.

 

[sharpygsxr]

aww sad news! Is she going to continue acting till her death.

ha ha you know i first read that as saying its sad news that she would be acting till her death.

 

[JBuk]

the BBC says she will marry before starting chemotherapy but the headline and article says she it is terminal cancer

why bother with chemo

 

[The Funktopus]

Dont know, they have just said she intends to marry her long term partner soon.
Her health has deteriorated apparently due to some of the treatment she has had doing more harm than good.

Chemotherapy is essentially poisoning the patient in the hope that the cancerous cells, with their higher metabollic rate, absorb the toxins quicker than the patient's healthy cells, thus die first and cause the tumors to receed. My dad was diagnosed with an aggressive form of lymphoma at about the same time Wendy Richard recieved her diagnosis in January. He underwent two courses of chemo, each about 10 weeks long. By the end of each course was as weak as a kitten, pale and exhausted, but then he'd perk up and almost return to some semblance of normality again for a month or two before the cancer came back resurgent.

Sadly, my dad died on the 7th September from multiple organ failure. Left weakened from his last course of chemothepary that finished in August, he just didn't have the strength to fight it anymore, and the tumors spread into his liver and kidneys causing them to fail.

 

[Van Hellseek]

why bother with chemo

Because it will likely prolong her life. Although I'm not sure I would personally want to prolong my life at the expense of spending most of it suffering the side-effects of chemotherapy. But some people out there will just cling to every last bit of life they can get, regardless of wether or not it will mean suffering.

I don't understand that mentality myself. I'd rather just get it over and done with, which I believe would be easier both on myself and my friends/family.

But if you want to take a bucket-full of pills every day and be so weak you can barely do anything, then that choice is yours.

 

[Margaret]

Derek!

 

[JBuk]

I though one cancer was set in chemo would be completely useless and not help prolong her days

I would rather just get it over with too tbh

 

[Cosimo]

That is sad news.

 

[penski]

Is this what GD has stooped to? Reporting on the health of every Z-list celeb out there?

*n

 

[neoboy]

I though one cancer was set in chemo would be completely useless and not help prolong her days

I would rather just get it over with too tbh

A lot of people say that, "If I get blind, I'll kill myself straight away", but you just don't know what you will do in that situation until it hits you.

 

[JBuk]

A lot of people say that, "If I get blind, I'll kill myself straight away", but you just don't know what you will do in that situation until it hits you.

maybe, but I see it like this

have terminal cancer - feel crap - die
have terminal cancer - feel crap - have chemo - feel even crapper but for longer - die

 

[neoboy]

Yeah you see it but you're just not in that situation you're a spectator here. I'm not attacking you here or anything, but I've know people who said they would do some things if they had some terminal illnesses but when their hour came up they were praying for just a few more minutes in this world.

 

[Knubje]

She is getting married, I always thought she was a butch lesbian to be honest.

That's Pat Butcher!

 

[MikeTimbers]

Indeed. I wouldn't wish cancer on anybody, but Wendy Richard is an ugly hag who can't act, and only got famous in the first place for her horrible screeching in a mildly popular pop song.

I really don't feel any 'extra' sympathy for celebs with cancer when there are so many 'normal' people suffering the same thing (and worse) who will not get the same level of sympathy/support.

I'm sorry to hear that she has cancer, but that changes nothing about what I think of her 'work'.

Wendy Richards got famous for being in "Are You Being Served" in which she was anything but ugly. I was never a fan of Eastenders but your comments are unkind.