Lisa Niemi and Patrick Swayze were married for thirty-four years. They first met as teenagers at his mother’s dance studio - he was older and just a bit cocky; she was the beautiful waif who refused to worship the ground he walked on. Their marriage strained under the pressures that many do, but through all of its ups and downs, it was a uniquely passionate and creative partnership.
When they first exchanged vows, Lisa promised to be with her husband ‘till death do us part’. But how many people stop and think about what that really means? Worth Fighting For is a remarkably candid look at what it means to lose a partner - how to care for him or her, how to make it through each day without losing your sanity, and how to move forward in the second half of your life when the person you spent the first half with is gone. For the first time, Lisa Niemi Swayze shares the details of Patrick’s twenty-one-month battle with Stage IV pancreatic cancer, and she describes his last days, when she simply tried to keep him comfortable. She writes with heartbreaking honesty about her grief in the aftermath of Patrick’s death, and she candidly discusses the challenges that the years without him have posed.
