Rudy went under the knife to have a portacatheter inserted. "Para siyang may pacemaker para hindi masyadong masakit sa mga veins niya yung chemo na ginagawa sa kanya," Lorna said.

March 2008: They went to the States to try a new kind of treatment. Prior to their trip, he already had treatment here with "nine infusions."

April 2008: Sen. Jinggoy Estrada in an interview said, "Yung kay Rudy, unfortunately, sa liver niya kumalat." Rudy was supposed to have his revolutionary gene therapy, but they only stayed for four days. He had an obstruction in his billary duct.

"He's in pain," Sen. Bong Revilla said.

May 2008: The action star had stage 4 periampullary cancer. But he was still positive. "Life is not a battle. I love it, I want more of it. That's all I ask, just a little more."

Senator Jinggoy disclosed that Rudy's tummy was already bloated and his eyes and skin were yellowish, all symptoms of the deadly cancer.

His friends offered a healing mass on May 10.

June 5, 2008: Lorna texted her close friends: "I am entrusting his life to the Lord."

June 7, 2008: Rudy "Daboy" Fernandez, 56, succumbed to cancer.