Patty, I'm so sorry to hear about your mom. You'll be in my thoughts.

I'm including a link here to a John Hopkins Univ site home page and there is a link to Discussioin Boards there. While I was fortunate not to have Pancreatic Cancer (PC as it's referred to frequently), I did have a surgery called a Whipple that is discussed there often so I went there for that. What I saw was a very very active and supportive and helpful group of folks from all over.

I hope you'll find it helpful too.
http://www.path.jhu.edu/pancreas/

hugs,