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.

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Dear friend,

[shannenigans.livejournal.com]

I recall fondly all the cuddles, amazing conversations, back-rubs that fixed what ailed me, and Hunter S. Thompson bedtime stories after late nights. DJ Princess Ranger Deathbunny, my life is better because you have been in it. You have always made me feel like so much more than just the pretty girl, you saw the smart funny girl in me too, and for that I thank you. I can clearly see you standing in the field at Rec Plant, your bunny hat sitting jauntily askew on your head, brandishing a giggle hammer as Birdy leaps up to tackle you. I will be listening to some butt-hole surfers tonight, and fondly recalling how much you loved to terrorize us. Shark!