Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin was seen caring for her boyfriend, New York Rangers legend Ron Duguay, amid his battle with cancer. In an Instagram video shared by Duguay's daughter Shay Thomas on Tuesday, February 24, Palin, 62, fed spoonfuls of food to Duguay, 68, as he rested in a hospital bed. Thomas tagged the politician in the post. The footage was shared the same day that Thomas and her sister, Amber Stavros, whom Duguay shares with ex-wife Robin Bobo, launched a GoFundMe page to raise funds for the former hockey player's ongoing cancer treatment. Palin, who began dating Duguay in 2022, was featured a second time within Thomas' video, posing alongside her boyfriend as the pair smiled for a selfie. The clip otherwise focused on Duguay's cancer journey, compiling photos and videos that showed the former athlete undergoing varied treatments across multiple hospital visits. Dave Coulier's Cancer Battle in His Own Words: From His Diagnosis to Now Page Six reported on Tuesday that Duguay was diagnosed with stage IV cancer that "started in the colon." The diagnosis was presented about a year ago, per the outlet. Us Weekly has reached out to Duguay for comment. Thomas offered further insight into the family's recent experiences via the post's caption. "Update on my dad @ronduguay10. One of the hardest things we've learned through this journey is that cancer doesn't fight fair. Just when you think you've found something that's working, just when hope starts to grow again, it tries to show up somewhere else. It forces you to keep pivoting, keep adjusting treatments, and keep changing cocktails and protocols," the mom of three wrote. Ron Duguay and Sarah Palin Courtesy of Shay Thomas/Instagram "Cancer wears on you mentally, emotionally, and physically. The highs bring hope, the lows can feel overwhelming. But through all of it, my dad keeps showing up. And more than anything, he keeps leaning on God." Thomas, whose GoFundMe target of $50,000 had soared past the halfway point (approximately $28,400) at the time of publication, then detailed the various treatments her father had undertaken in the hope of attacking cancerous cells. "He is doing everything he possibly can ... from living antioxidant water, blood ozone therapy, IV vitamin drips, ivermectin, methylene blue, and countless holistic approaches, while also continuing [Californian hospital] City of Hope's chemo protocol and undergoing major surgery on both his liver and colon," she detailed. "He is all in. Every single day. And through it all, his faith has never wavered." Palin has mostly kept her romance with Duguay away from the public eye. However, the pair have attended public events together in the past, including the "Save America" rally in Anchorage, Alaska, in July 2022. They were also photographed linking arms while attending a Rangers game in New York City in April 2025. Summer House's Jesse Solomon Opens Up About Testicular Cancer Journey Sarah, who divorced Todd Palin in 2020 after more than three decades of marriage, told the New York Post in 2022 that her relationship with Duguay was "safe and comfortable." While addressing her 2017 defamation lawsuit against The New York Times - which alleged that the newspaper had incorrectly linked her political committee to a 2011 mass shooting (the suit was dismissed in 2022, and an appeal also found the Times not liable in 2025) - Palin told the Post that Duguay served as a healthy distraction throughout the ordeal. "Ron is the first person that I've ever even talked to about a lot of this personal stuff. So it's been helpful and refreshing to have Ron to talk to about not just politics, because he's got more common sense in his little finger than the collective in D.C., but just about life," she said, adding that her beau was "really handsome."