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Before Her Revision Surgery
Slipped Asleep Mid-Banana
Back Up to 111 Pounds!
This was meant to be a place for good news. First all the misery Briggs was put through for fifteen months, now all the decades of life she missed out on. I didn't know grief could be this overwhelming. I was saying to a friend of Briggs's that the mental and physical ache of missing Briggs were being made even harder by the gnawing regret of my not having got things right, both with the cancer and the avoidable medical downslide Briggs died from in hospital here in Manhattan--and she said with such sympathy, "Paul, she thought you were the sun and the moon and the stars," and for me that's just how every day is now, as if the sun and the moon and the stars have all gone out.
I mention in a note before the petition that Susan Sarandon, Alan Rickman, and Jimmy Smits have generously signed. I wouldn't want anyone to go through what Briggs went through, and now I'm going through. Please send all the people you can to sign. Along with the book I mentioned, I think we can change the future for millions of patients and their despairing families. I had put a note here before that this website is, now unmercifully ironically, for a feature film we made, a 'romantic drama of loss' set in 1650 that was in large part inspired by Briggs's mother's reaction to Briggs's father dying of cancer. Telling Briggs she could "hardly breathe without him," she would berate his ashes daily for leaving her behind. In the film, we changed it to an adventurer's wife's untimely death, a loss I said I was "hopeful, and would be so greatly appreciative, to leave in his imagined hands." I convinced Briggs to do a cameo as the wife who may be a ghost in the castle or her husband's memories of her, and so as her husband in the film I spend the course of it coming to terms with her death...and now it's Briggs's ashes that I have at home with me. Photogenic as Briggs was in 'hospital' photos, if you might like to see her in healthier, happier days, the trailer-page link is the second from left below.
