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Goodbye, aelith1946
This weekend, I learned that aelith1946 - Aelith on Shejidan - has died. She was 63.
She contacted me last month via locked post to tell me her cancer had returned and spread, but that chemotherapy was going well and that a prognosis would be made "next year." Then, according to a note that her brother sent to felicitoussk8er, Aelith caught pneumonia due to her weakened immune system. Treatment was ineffective, and she died November 14.
When Aelith heard about my own illness on Shejidan, she instantly assumed the role of concerned older sister, pestering me to ask my doctors all the right questions and exhorting me to take an active role in my treatments. The news that she has lost this battle has left me sad and empty.
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The delay in talking about it was made things very weird ... I was asked to hold off until the mods - many of whom knew her better than I did (we two just had the shared-illness thing) - on the board felt able to deal with it and made a formal announcement. I was sort of in limbo from Saturday night until I wrote the post.