[Artemisia] Overdue Sad News

[Johnson, Scott L SFC NG NG]

Don Conchobhar mac Michil,
You and yours are in my prayers and thoughts. May you feel your SCA Friends caring and prayers be a comfort in this your family's time of need. God Bless you and your Lady Sabrina. 

Tighearn Colin Campbell de Leith, Squire and Apprentice
SFC Scott Johnson
"People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."-George Orwell


----- Original Message -----
From: Conchobhar mac Michil <connor.mac.michil at gmail.com>
Date: Thursday, January 17, 2008 23:02
Subject: [Artemisia] Overdue Sad News
To: Kingdom of Artemisia mailing list <artemisia at lists.gallowglass.org>, 1000eyes at yahoogroups.com

> To all my friends in 1000 Eyes, Artemisia, and elsewhere that 
> these 
> words reach...
> 
> I've been putting off making this missive public since last March, 
> though current circumstances have made procrastinating any further 
> a bad 
> idea.  Some of you out there know parts of this, but have probably 
> not 
> been updated recently.
> 
> March 14, 2007 my wife Sabrina (Lady Catalina Giacomuzzi) was 
> diagnosed 
> with cervical cancer which we soon found out had also spread to 
> her 
> colon and liver.  After wonderful results with radiation on the 
> tumor in 
> her colon, and decent progress on the cancer in her liver the 
> chemo was 
> beginning to have no effect.  Being uninsured, the doctors in Las 
> Vegas 
> decided that they were wasting their time on someone who was 
> probably 
> going to be terminal.  And they decided that they did not want to 
> continue treatment.  Not wanting to give up, and if anything were 
> to 
> happen, wanting to be closer to friends and family, we moved back 
> to 
> Pocatello the last day of July.  Sabrina started treatment at the 
> Portneuf Cancer Center and was making good progress for a time.  
> In 
> November, the IV chemo was having less and less of an effect and 
> her 
> doctor switched her to an oral chemo treatment.  The first two 
> rounds of 
> that were showing good hope and for the most part she was 
> stabilized.  
> Between Christmas and New Year's Sabrina started to feel bloated 
> and we 
> watched her carefully.  About two weeks ago her eyes were becoming 
> jaundiced, so we went into the doctor.  An ultrasound of her liver 
> showed that cause of the jaundice was that the primary tumor in 
> her 
> liver had gotten more aggressive and was blocking the primary bile 
> duct.  At this point, since her liver cannot process them, she has 
> been 
> taken off all chemo drugs, and is only on pain medication.  The 
> doctor 
> only gave her at most 6 months, and as few as 1 month to live.  
> Other 
> than being tired, she was doing fine until this last Sunday.  
> After 
> getting out of bed and trying to make her way to the bathroom she 
> got 
> dizzy and fell.  Since then she has gotten progressively more 
> confused, 
> dizzy, and it is becoming harder for her to talk.  As of today, 
> hospice 
> has brought out a hospital bed for her as she can no longer get up 
> and 
> down the stairs, even with my help.  At the rate that she has 
> declined 
> this week, I don't think that she has much longer; certainly not 6 
> more 
> months, and maybe not even another 2 weeks.
> 
> I ask that all that would keep her in your prayers and thoughts.  
> When 
> the time does come that she is taken from me and our daughter and 
> Sabrina passes on, I, or someone, will pass on information about 
> where 
> and when the memorial service will be.
> 
> With a heavy heart,
> 
> Mike Bradley
> nee' Don Conchobhar mac Michil
> 
> PS To any that might respond to me privately, please understand if 
> it 
> takes me longer than normal to respond.
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