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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. Instead, Briggs was put through misery for fifteen months only to have decades of life taken from her. The immunotherapy I was trying to get for her has been in (infrequent) clinical trials since 2001 and should have been available. Briggs could be alive and getting better right now. Susan Sarandon, Alan Rickman, and Jimmy Smits, an old friend of Briggs's, had signed the petition to get it for her, and now Penelope Cruz, Naomi Watts, Mickey Rourke, Katherine Heigl, Ken Burns, Scarlett Johansson, Elle Macpherson, Josh Lucas, Meredith Vieira, Debra Messing, Rob Lowe, Emily Blunt, Denise Richards, and singer Steve Tyrell, who lost his wife to colorectal cancer, have generously signed to get all immunotherapies on the fast track for everyone. No-one should have to go through all the harm that was done to Briggs, or the unbearable grief I'm going through now.
Along with the book in memory of Briggs I mention in the petition that she was making notes for, making all immunotherapies a priority can quickly begin changing the face of cancer and the future for millions of patients and their despairing families. I had put a note here before that this website is, now unmercifully, 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 for leaving her behind. In the film, we changed it to an adventurer's wife's untimely death, a loss I said here that 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 playing 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. She designed the costumes, too.
(Sign Box is at bottom
of petition page)
