[Artemisia] Overdue Sad News

[Thaya S - Dame Rachel]

What a terrible ordeal, I can not imagine the pain, stress and suffering you are all under. 
You family is indeed in my prayers.
  Blessings and peace,
  Dame Rachel
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  H.E. Dame Rachel Ravenlock, OP
  Sixth Baroness of Arn Hold
  (off the throne and still excellent)

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.
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  Legal: Mrs. Thaya G. Shaeffer 
  SCA:  H.E. Dame Rachel Ravenlock, OP 
            Sixth Baroness of Arn Hold







       
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