SFScope friends Hilary Friedman and Michael A. Burstein both wrote to alert us to Jeanne Robinson‘s health difficulty. Rather than paraphrasing, we’ll just report what her husband and sometime co-author Spider Robinson writes:
Help Jeanne Stay Healthy
“This year a brilliant surgeon, Dr. Andresz Busczowski, helped Jeanne Robinson beat back a rare and virulent form of biliary cancer. But it’s so rare even he can’t say how much time he’s bought her, how soon it might recur. For technical reasons she is not a candidate for either radiation or chemo. Her only hope for longterm survival is therefore to reboot and reinvigorate her failed immune system. She needs special therapies and meds, extensive diet and lifestyle changes, and a stress level as close to zero as possible. All those are expensive, none are covered by even Canada’s excellent medical care… and like many artists today the Robinsons were already running on fumes financially.
“But Jeanne, a Soto Zen monk, has been spreading love and kindness in all directions for a long time. So her Buddhist sangha in Vancouver, her neighbors on Bowen Island, and friends as far away as Florida have all spontaneously come together to raise funds to help keep her around as long as possible. Your participation is welcomed. A Bowen benefit concert, “We Dream for Jeanne”, will be held at Cates Hill Chapel at 7:30PM on Friday Sept 18 details in this pdf image [a larger version of the small image on this page]; cheques may be made out to Jeanne Robinson in Trust and sent to Mountain Rain Zen Center, 6183 Fraser St. Vancouver, BC V5W 2Z9; goods or services can be donated for eBay auction by contacting Jan Schroeder at dreamforjeanne at aol dot com, and PayPal donations can be sent to wedreamforjeanne.blogspot.com.
“Jeanne and Spider both warmly appreciate your help, support, prayers or just good thoughts.”
Jeanne Robinson is a dancer, choreographer, teacher, and writer. Jeanne and Spider co-wrote the Stardance series (the first novella won both the Nebula and Hugo Awards in 1978).