Serious and Grim News: Brett

[dwenius]

My very dear friend Brett Summers is currently in Columbia University Hospital in Missouri, and his condition is extremely grave. He has been struggling with alcoholism for some time and developed Hepatitis over the past year. Several stints of rehab were only marginally successful and about a month ago he fell into a coma in his house. He has been in the hospital since then with acute liver and kidney failure. His family and doctors are unsure whether he will live a week, or a month,
or —

I'm flying out tomorrow and hope that he will be out from sedation long enough to know that I am there. If not, I'll play him the Orb, and read to him from Italo Calvino, and leave him the get well cards that Calvin and Rose made, and otherwise keep him company through midday Thursday.

Please send your love and good thoughts for him. Anything you post here, I will do my best to relay. I'll either read it aloud to him or print your words and leave them by his bedside, or both.

Comments

[double00range.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much for going. I am deeply saddened by this. I can't help but feel guilty for not doing enough. Fucking hell indeed.

I can't afford to fly there, but I wonder if I could do speaker phone while you're there. Can you e-mail me a current phone number? double00range at gmail dot com

[dwenius.livejournal.com]

Gwen, don't dive down the hindsight rabbit hole. I am struggling with it too. That way lies madness. We will get your call into his ear tomorrow one way or the other. I sent you email to try to coordinate.