[Artemisia] Overdue Sad News

[Mike Bradley]

To everyone that has already contacted me, thank you.  As a general
response, short of having a Diety's cell phone number and asking for a
miracle, no, there isn't much that anyone can do right now.

However, Lady Signy did remind me of something that I should have thought of
myself, especially since I visited the site through my Dad's illness.  So,
Sabrina now has a page at Caring Bridge.  The address to the website is
http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/sabrinabradley. Anyone who wishes to can
go there to view some pictures and I will probably use the journal to keep
people up to date on her condition.  Feel free to share this address with
anyone that may wish to visit her site.

Mike/Connor

On Jan 17, 2008 10:33 PM, Conchobhar mac Michil <connor.mac.michil at gmail.com>
wrote:

>  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.
>