MSN - News - Tammy Faye: Doctors Not Treating Cancer

Former televangelist Tammy Faye Messner said doctors have stopped treating her cancer and that her weight has dropped to 65 pounds.

In a letter posted Tuesday on her Web site, Messner thanked her "faithful friends" for sending her flowers, cards and gifts as she battles cancer for a third time. The 65-year-old Charlotte resident was first diagnosed with colon cancer in 1996, and she announced in 2004 that the disease had spread to her lungs.

"The doctors have stopped trying to treat the cancer and so now it's up to God and my faith. And that's enough!" she wrote.

Messner said her daughter and her daughter's friends were taking care of her while her husband, Roe Messner, builds churches. He had no comment on his wife's condition, said a woman who answered the phone Wednesday at his business.

Messner has frequently spoken about her medical problems, saying she hoped to be an inspiration to others. Letters, including updates on her health, have been posted every few months on her Web site.

"I am down weight-wise to 65 pounds, and look like a scarecrow. I need God's miracle to swallow," she said in her latest posting. "I look at young people and wish with all my heart for just one day of 'feeling great.'"

Messner divorced Jim Bakker in 1992, while he was serving a sentence for financial fraud. The pair founded a Christian retreat in Fort Mill, S.C., and built a multimillion-dollar evangelism empire.

She called in to TBN (only three scrambly channels at three AM) and she sounded HORRIBLE. Like Mercedes Mcambridge or something. Sad. She's the craziest of the entertaining crazies. Besides Cork.

so sad.

So will she be dead soon? I am unconvinced that the power of prayer will be enough, but I guess you just never know.

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actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter

her son has a show on the sundance channel called 'one punk under god'. i never knew she had cancer until then. i really kind of felt bad about it.

was this sarcasam?

Farrah Fawcett has the same thing another pollup that they don't want to operate on in case it spreads...sad.

when I was growing up my mom was a crazy nut who worshipped these people so I hated them......but 3 years ago when I saw tammy faye on the VH-1 surreal life she seemed so sweet and like she really accepted everyone kindly, she seems like a good person, all things considered, it makes me sad that she's dying this horrible slow death and down to 60 pounds

I still rate Farah Flicks. She has done more for mankind than Tammy Faye.

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Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.

I escaped somehow. Let's go

actualy [sic] I have quite a blessed life if I'm honest. I have many people to love, hate few and have few money problem's [sic].... What more does a person need? Oh yeah and I have some kind of humbleness unlike you of course ^_^ ~ CarefulCarpenter

I'm not a christian (don't agree with most of it)... but I really love Tammy Faye... she knows how to control it (meaning: not being a zealot and a pain in the ass)... she's so fun... and STRONG...
I can't help but to smile when I see her... and i just saw the documentary The Eyes of Tammy Faye and learned alot about her and respect her even more.

It's very sad. She's down to 65lbs!