This past weekend on Saturday night October 11, 2014 shortly after 7:30 our dear Heidi died at City of Hope Hospital from severe infections related to the leukemia she battled for four years.
Heidi was with her aunt Jean(her mother's sister), her brothers Greg and Kevin, her cousin Jory, and myself. The ICU staff were kind, skillful and very respectful of her needs and ours' through this difficult time.
Words fail me now. I have been unable to write this post until this morning. I miss her terribly. Heidi and I were each other's anam caras. We were true soul friends and soul partners.
She is no longer suffering and for that we are so grateful. As you all know, she was the consummate warrior in her refusal to give up in her fight against this horrible disease and in her fight for her life. My respect for her is infinite.
And I am, and will be forever, grateful for having shared these past five and one-half years of love and laughter and art-making and poetry and time with wonderful friends and family and meditations and tv show watching snuggled on our couch and trips and travails with Heidi Holliday Hall.
We will gather at some point in the future to honor Heidi and to join in our love for her.
in deep sorrow,
Peter
