Kage Baker a un cancer

[jerome]

Kage Baker a rendu public son cancer il y a quelques jours.

Voici ce que dit l'article :

However ... her health is really extremely fragile right now. She is fatigued to the point of falling asleep on a moment's notice, and so weak and dizzy that she cannot stand unassisted. She cannot walk. She cannot sit in a chair without help. She cannot usually reach the phone in her hospital room. While messages, cards, etc would be much appreciated, I would ask that they be sent to our home address, rather than her hospital room. Honestly, she cannot physically cope with anything else. And of course, anything sent to my email for her will be printed out and delivered ASAP.

Theobromos will make her smile, although at the moment she can't really eat it - it's taking all my persuasive powers to get her to eat anything at all.

As to how bad it is ... dear heart, it is about as bad as it can be. It started out as uterine cancer, and the surgery for that went well - but on Christmas Eve we discovered it had metastasized to her brain. She had a craniotomy the day after Christmas, and an inch-long tumor was removed from her cerebellum - three weeks later, it has regenerated to the size of a golf ball. She has begun both radiation and chemo this week, and they do seem to be helping: but it will be a week or two before we know if they are making a sufficient difference to save her life. At this point, it is a race to see what dies faster: Kage or the cancer. There are also 5 tumors in her lungs, though all of them are mercifully smaller; they are responding fast, too, and she said tonight that she can breathe a bit better already.

If we are lucky, the therapies will win her a few months; if we are incredibly lucky, 6 months to a year. If she gets more than that, it will be a literal miracle. What we are aiming at is as much time as we can get, in as much comfort as can be managed. She is not giving up, though, and neither - obviously! - am I. I have been her caregiver for 8 months now, and am not going to surrender as long as there is the smallest chance of her living through this."

L'article propose de lui envoyer quelques messages de soutient :

Email address: materkb@gmail.com
Kage Baker 331 Stimson, Apt. B, Pismo Beach CA 93449.

[jerome]

Quelques nouvelles de Kage Barker. Elles ne sont pas bonnes.

Kage's doctor has informed us she has reached the end of useful treatment. The cancer has slowed, but not stopped. It has continued to spread at an unnatural speed through her brain, her lungs and - now - reappeared in her abdomen. It is probably a matter of a few weeks, at most.

Kage has fought very hard, but this is just too aggressive and mean. She's very, very tired now, and ready for her Long Sleep. She's not afraid.

We've been in a motel the last week or so, in order to complete her therapy.I'll have her home in her own bedroom by the weekend, though, so end of life care can take place in more comfortable surroundings.

[Herbefol]

Et merde !

[Erion]

D'après le twitter de Robert J. Sawyer, Kage Baker vient de mourir aujourd'hui.

[jerome]

C'est confirmé...

"She died at 1:15 this morning. She had begun to have difficulty breathing early this evening; I gave her atropine and morphine for the breathing problems and the pain, but by about 8 PM she slipped into unconsciousness. The last thing she requested was to have her pillows adjusted - she said she was more comfortable, and after that she said nothing else. She became unresponsive very shortly thereafter, and by her own request, no heroic efforts were made.
Her sister Anne and nieces Kate and Emma were up this weekend, and watched with me for most of the evening. . At about 1 AM her breathing got louder and lighter and more urgent, though her pupils were not responsive to light; there was a rush of bile from her mouth, and then she passed away very quietly in our arms.
Kage's body will go to MedCure, a body donation program working on training surgery students. They will cremate it and return the ashes to me in about 3 weeks. Her ashes will then be scattered half from Catalina Island and half from Plaskett Creek beach near Big Sur."

[rmd]

Pour les nombreux qui n'ont jamais lu de Kage Baker (fiche noosfere), je ne peux que conseiller les deux tomes parus chez Pocket : Dans le jardin d'iden et Coyotte Céleste. Des histoires de patrouilles temporelles réussies, avec une intrigue de fond extrêmement prometteuse.

[arsenie]

Merci pour le lien.
J'ai un gros problème avec les noms propres anglo-saxons : je les confonds tous...
C'est pourquoi je n'ai pas discriminé cette "Baker"
Une précision si d'autres news bees passent :
coyotes célestes est apparemment la suite des jardins d'iden

[Herbefol]

Oui, ce sont les deux premiers volumes d'une série dont la suite ne fut malheureusement jamais traduite en français, série qui compte 9 romans et 2 recueils de nouvelles si je ne me trompe pas (et peut-être aussi quelques novellas).
Je n'en ai lu que le premier et je l'avais beaucoup apprécié. Le premier chapitre m'avait scié parce qu'il contient à lui tout seul de quoi faire un roman complet. Coyote céleste traine quelque part dans mes étagères et je compte bien m'en occuper un jour ou l'autre. Et après peut-être devoir passer à l'anglais pour lire les suivants.
En tout cas ça me peine d'apprendre cette nouvelle.

[bormandg]

J'avais découvert il y a longtemps Kage Baker avec Mendoza in Hollywood, troisième roman de la série. Mais il faudra que je me trouve les autres.