[Choir] Fwd: Art's diagnosis

[Richard Riley]

Dear Choir,

Here's the latest on Art. Please keep Art and Sue and their daughters
Lizzie and Meredith in your thoughts and hearts.

I look forward to seeing you all tomorrow night for the first UCM choir
rehearsal of 2017.

Dick

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From: amy tatko <amytatko at gmail.com>
Date: Wed, Jan 4, 2017 at 4:03 PM
Subject: Art's diagnosis
To:


Dear Friends -

Sadly, our dear friend Art has been diagnosed with intravascular lymphoma,
a very rare form of cancer. He is being moved today to the cancer hospital
at Yale, and chemo treatments will begin very soon. Art's doctors at Yale
will observe how he responds to chemo before they decide whether he may
return to Vermont for further treatment.

Art and Sue's daughter Lizzie will be visiting them today on her way home
to Chicago. Their daughter Meredith will go down to Yale later this week.
Sue is very comforted to have them with her. Sue describes her own and
Art's states much as any one of us would imagine: a little of everything,
including hopeful and worried, and just plain worn out from the whole
ordeal.

For those who might wish to read about Art's cancer, you may find it
comforting to note that his lead neurologist, Dr. Joachim Baehring, is an
expert on intravascular lymphoma and has written some of the only medical
papers on this cancer that are available on the internet.

Let us remain together with one another and with Art in spirit every step
of the way. Friendship and community are among the very dearest parts of
life for Art, as we all know, and this little email community of Art's
loving friends has been a great comfort to me.

Love,
Amy

P.S. Thank you all for your thoughtful notes. Please don't worry about me.
I'm taking good care of myself and learning more about how to live with
sadness and the unknown without suffering unnecessarily, which is exactly
what Art would want me to be doing right now.
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