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

[6opou.livejournal.com]

Brett,

You have been an inspiration in my life. I have rarely seen an individual with more motivation and intelligence. It was awesome to watch you be so enthusiastic about so many projects that were beyond the reach of so many others. You stand as one of the best read people I've ever met, and I wish that we could have spent more time together exploring, and making music and other art together. I loved dancing with you and being around you when we let go of the shackles of inhibitions. Profound connection is one of the most difficult and rewarding of all human endeavors, and I am thankful that we found that in our pasts together, because you made it so rewarding for me. I hope that your spirit can pull through this failing of the flesh, and reach a better place, wherever that may be. I hope that place is with us for a bit longer.

With Love,
Anderson

[ottobeatriscuit.livejournal.com]

Hi Brett,

Please get well soon. Pull through.

Much love,

Francine