Cedars-Sinai Hospital
Drs. Simon Lo, Mark Ault, Geemee Chung. Patient Services: Madeline Lehrman, Yuri, and Lidia. Della and all the fabulous RNs in the procedure center, and the staff in the hospital.
Northwestern Hospital
Dr. Mary Mulcahy and all the heartfelt help provided by their cancer and GI department. Thank you, Dr. John Martin, for getting that new stent in. Whew!
Tower Oncology
The wonderful Dr. David Hoffman, our main man Jose Ramirez, and Pia Chantravat, and Bill Such. John Rice at Premier Infusion Care.
Loving Friends
Lisa “Above and Beyond” Dickey, Kay “Always There” Lenz, Brian Braff, Warren and Jale “There’s Nothing a Pair of Red Manolo Blahniks Won’t Help” Trepp, Lynne Butler, Joe and Sandy Bourdeau, Whoopi Goldberg, Cash and Monica Schoch, Randi Barnes, Dwight Rhoden, Desmond Richardson, Stacy Widelitz, Griff Griffis, Travis Fimmel. Kenny and Joanne Gordon, Mark Smith, Steve Diamond, and so many others.
The Beast
A&E and Sony TV for taking a chance on both Patrick and me. Michael, Roy, Vincent, Bill, and the entire production crew—you’re the tops!
The Team
Our hard-working, caring publicists, lawyers, agents, managers: Annett Wolf, Jayme Phillips, Fred Gaines, Mel Berger, Richard Solomon, Nicole David, Jenny Delany.
Atria Books
My fantastic editor, Sarah Durand, and her assistants, Sarah Cantin and Alex Arnold. The wonderful Judith Curr. Paul Olsewski and Yona Deshommes. And the special Elisa Shokoff and Matt Cartsonis.
And . . .
Our Beloved Animals—the ones I lost in the year after I lost Patrick—Tina the cat, Patrick’s sleeping buddy, who died herself exactly one month later, at the same hour, from her own cancer. My beautiful filly that was born at 5:30 A.M. August 2009, and perished six months later during colic surgery. And our magnificent stallion Roh, who died from mysterious complications in August 2010. It was a rough year.
And the Beloved Animals who have survived with me, and love and protect me. Canines: Lucas, Murphy, and Kuma. Felines: Possum and Lupe. Equines: Bint Bint Subhaya, Zahra Galila, Shirin Jewel, Assirah, Nadra, Shamrock, Nation, Rabba, Emir, La Dior. My two bad-boy colts: Faris Al Ahlam and Malik al Malouk. And my beautiful new filly, Farah Jewel, born June 2011.
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