The plan was that she would go home to Los Angeles during her weeks off, and once UCLA started the trial, she could go home permanently. Subscribers can find additional help here. (Her 2004 book, Truth and Beauty, describes a seventeen-year friendship with the brilliant but demanding writer, Lucy Grealy, also a cancer victim.). One morning Sooki had coffee with Sister Nena and me before she went to a yoga class across the street from the restaurant we went to for breakfast. Everyone was wide awake, waiting up to see if the world was going to end. We hope you enjoy reading another article this month! I picked up one of the bigger islands and moved it gently back and forth. There was no reason to offer unsolicited opinions on a subject I knew nothing about to a person who had just gotten into my car, but the thought of a frozen gel pack on my own head struck me as boundless misery. But when? And it's such a funny thing. They had turned off the heat PATCHETT: Or they turned it down to whatever level would keep the pipes from freezing. When Im putting together a novel, I leave all the doors and windows open so the characters can come in and just as easily leave. New book of essays tells story. It was a shaggy dog of a story by a woman passionate about dogs, touching on a variety of subjects, including her friendship with Tom Hanks assistant Sooki Raphael; Raphaels treatment for cancer; the early days of the coronavirus pandemic; the art and craft of writing; and I kid you not psychedelic mushrooms. The emails wed exchanged could be printed out and slid into a single manila envelope. Of course we would exercise together; it was good for both of us. In Patchett's wildest dreams, she likely never saw a friendship blossoming later in life that would lead her to become a safe haven for a woman fighting against cancer. Sparky Considers a Squirrel, Nashville 2020. assistant (as Susan 'Sooki' Raphael, Mr. Hanks) 2012 Game Change assistant (Mr. Hanks) TV Movie 2012 Larry Crowne assistant (Mr. Hanks) 2011 Big Love assistant: Tom Hanks assistant: Mr. Hanks TV Series 2006-2011 48 episodes The Pacific assistant: Mr. Hanks (Mr. Hanks) TV Mini Series 2010 7 episodes Where the Wild Things Are assistant (Tom Hanks) It was a science experiment that could never be replicated. She was checking email or trying to make notes. In a previous interview with SurvivorNet,Dr. Anirban Maitra, the co-leader of the Pancreatic Cancer Moon Shot at MD Anderson Cancer Center, explains what he typically sees when patients develop this disease. Ours was an ephemeral connection common to the modern world, writes Patchett. I was going to tell Karl what was happening but he was looking at his own phone. Sooki had strength and courage. It was shallow, but perfect, and the early morning, Sea stones with holes in them have long been regarded as magical talismans, carried for protection, or safe passage. The cherry blossoms hung on forever. It's about Patchett's unexpected friendship with Sooki Raphael, Tom Hanks' personal assistant, which developed when Raphael underwent chemo treatment while living at Patchett's house in Nashville at the start of the pandemic. I had been afraid of how the story would end. Death was the river that ran underground, always. My husband, Ken, will come down for at least part of the time, once Ive started chemo, and I may have other visitors, so I think I will explore some other options in the area, but I cant tell you how touched I am that youve extended the offer. And youre going to freeze your head for eight hours every week? Wed been together for a matter of minutes. Its just. She stopped. PATCHETT: I really, really appreciate that. Its important to think about your intentions before you start, my friend told us. Three blue tattoos on the same plane as my prominent abdominal scar, it would hardly matter. There arent a lot of boundaries. We wrote about artists we liked, about Pantone and the color wheel. She painted as fast as she could get her canvases prepped, berating herself for falling asleep in the afternoons. Do you even realize your life isnt normal? Niki said when I announced my trip. It made her crazy not to be there to help. There were no words because it wasnt about words. It's clear this was hard to write about when you turned to actually try to capture Sooki in an essay. How it happened is told in the title story ofThese Precious Days, Patchetts second collection of essays. I lit the candles on the table and served the cauliflower cake and tomato soup Id made that afternoon. ROSEGALLERY is presenting These Precious Days, a solo exhibition of paintings by Sooki Raphael, on view from 10 April until 10 May, 2021. She looked like Los Angeles in winter. They would leave in four days. So it really was what they said, a definitive spiritual experience? Shed seen people. I desperately wanted to vomit, to turn back time. ", (SOUNDBITE OF STATIK SELEKTAH SONG, "TIME"). Still, it seemed possible I could get off the ride early by expelling the mushrooms. In fact we were so exactly in the middle of history that we had no way of understanding what we were seeing. My artwork is very reflective of my cancer journey, Cuozzo says. There was no hesitation on the canvases, no timidity. Much love. For a while she filled in for a friend and was the assistant to a film director, and then another friend introduced her to Tom, who was looking for someone. Dont go anywhere you wouldnt want to get stuck, a doctor friend had told me. Enter your new information and click on Save My Changes. Can you imagine Tom sitting at home saying, I cant believe Sooki used my connections to get into a clinical trial in Nashville?, No, of course not, Im just telling you. Or its supposed to slow it down. She hadnt lost her hair on FOLFIRINOX, though shed lost her sense of taste and smell, the feeling in her feet and hands, and twenty pounds. We wrote about painting because she painted. Sooki was desperate to be helpful. She had wanted to be a better person, and here she believed she was better. She had a double mastectomy and originally got implants with reconstruction. I had told her the make of my car, and she waved when I pulled up in front of the airport. People are not characters, no matter how often we tell them they are; conversations are not dialogue; and the actions of our days dont add up to a plot. She painted her granddaughter striding through a field of her own imagination, she painted herself wearing a mask, she painted me walking down our street with such vividness that I realized I had never seen the street before, Patchett wrote. I can never quite hear what the person making the introduction is saying, and for a moment I wouldnt be able to tell you the name of the theater or even the city I was in. The treatments left her tired, but she was managing. The car was taking me into yellow, not a field of yellow but into the color itself. It's an unforgettable story. Moving Forward after Losing a Loved One to Cancer. The three of us were standing, back of the theater in . Click, click, click. Entire countries have lost their distinctive smell, The Wests industrial-sized chicken farms could be as dangerous as any wet market. I saw my mother and sister. Small, flat islands of boiled wool were resolutely attached to her scalp by the 2percent of hair that had not fallen out. Would you feel better about it if I did it with you?, She looked at me. Now Sooki and I sorted through them like old baseball cards. 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This was not a two-hour journey. Which she did. Ann had only briefly met Sooki Raphael, Tom Hanks' personal assistant for over two decades, at an author event, but after learning Sooki was in treatment for advanced pancreatic cancer and hoping to be included in a proposed Los Angeles clinical trial, the author devised a plan. I didnt say, Your death. The same trial she was part of in Nashville had finally commenced at UCLA, twenty minutes from her house. NPR transcripts are created on a rush deadline by an NPR contractor. But the only information I had was in the book. It was so hard for her to talk. Are you not sorry you did it? I felt like it took me two minutes to put that much together. "How other people live is pretty much all I think about. How is it possible? I said as I complimented her again and again. Karl was sitting on the front porch and he called for me to come out. I could see what they needed and what theyd given me. I was leaving for Virginia. This unfolds in your college dorm freshman year. I want to meet Tom Hanks, she said. KELLY: And the timing of this - she comes to live with you while she's doing the treatment, and this turns out to be the beginning of the pandemic. He was tall and slim, happily at ease, answering questions, signing books. He was in Nashville. He said they were running more trials for pancreatic cancer than Sloan Kettering. About a quarter of the trees were down. In the press release for the exhibition, ROSEGALLERY said her works used her colorful palette as an expression of a renewal of spirit and life as she healed alongside the scorched landscape of the Malibu and Topanga hills.. Karl, being Karl, took the officer around the corner to explain the situation. Just you and Karl?, I thought about it for a minute, shook my head. KELLY: (Laughter). Shed gone to an Indian restaurant and bought bread stuffed with apricots and dates. Karl was seventy-two. She gave me the number and I called it from the house phone, hoping wed hear it ring. What a good idea. The Amazing Rita Wilsons New Film About Choosing Life; How She Beat Cancer & Became A Songwriter, Hot, Sweaty And Itchy Feeling Turns Out To Be Cancer For 42-Year-Old Man When To Seek Help, 54-Year-Olds Misdiagnosed Muscles Spasms In Shoulder Turn Out To Be Pancreatic Cancer, Apples Steve Jobs Was Trying To Accept Powerlessness & His Place In The Universe The Newly Revealed Email To Himself. Why had I been so careful? I had to turn myself away from the movie of what I thought was happening, the movie I had made for myself, so that I could see her. I really could call once, and I wanted to call her after dinner. Surely there would be a story there for one of us. The essay, "These Precious Days," chronicles Patchett's meeting with actor Tom Hanks, who was promoting his first book of short stories, Uncommon Type, and had asked Patchett for an endorsement. I tried to imagine chemo while living in a hotel. Call me crazy, but that seems like a lot. We were well into March by then. There were pictures of her at twenty-two, beautiful and dark-eyed, standing on somebodys desk in little canvas tennis shoes, her gloved hands holding a bat and a net. "[Sooki] was so many things," Wilson wrote. You can live here for the rest of your life, I said, and I meant it. At Harper's Magazine, author Ann Patchett relates working with Tom Hanks, through which she meets and befriends his assistant, Sooki. She was the bat squad. I was happy, even thrilled, to stop traveling. Its too weird., There is no weirdness left between us, I said. Of course I opted for tattoos. I should have thought of that one myself. And the moral of the story is that really is what I have been doing my whole life ever since. Sooki arrived in Nashville on Sunday, February 23, just after Kate left. Her kids were in school by then. When her white count was too low to get treatment, she would run up and down the stairs at the hospital, down from the seventh floor to the first and back up again, over and over, and then get retested. And so she meets Sooki Raphael, Hanks' assistant. Subscribe to the World edition here. This is the way novelists think: beginning, middle, and end. But remembering all the wonderful ways your loved one enriched your life and moving on from there can be such a powerful way to move forward. Maybe its all the chemicals I have in me already. MAILORDER / QUESTIONS: 1.888.266.4370 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM MON-FRI NURSERY PHONE: (510) 215-3301 Our Plants. But for you, there was also a vapor that would come in and fill in any gap that was left in the process, and I realized, Oh, this is what is special here and so essentially Ann. There was a completeness. You have a pretty head, I told Sooki when the job was done. Sooki had been a marathoner, though her best event was a 10K trail run. Nothing had to. And this led to you meeting Sooki. I sent you another book that will show up eventually, a tiny French novel I love called The Lost Estate (Le grand meaulnes) by Alain-Fournier. Sooki, I found out, was sixty-four. I caught an early flight home. All day long Sooki emailed me pictures of her family with the subject line Where is our other sister? OVERVIEW EXHIBITIONS BIOGRAPHY Past Exhibitions. Where I was going was death. Now for no particular reason I changed my mind. Our correspondence was less about bookstores and more about books. PATCHETT: So I first met Sooki Raphael backstage when I was interviewing Tom for his collection of short stories. Then as the world was ensnared by a global pandemic, the two friends formed a pandemic pod. In a piece for Harpers Magazine called These Precious Days, Patchett told the story of their friendship and spoke of her admiration for the paintings Raphael created at her home. 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I was packing boxes, writing cards, and making cheerful videos in which I extolled the virtues of the books I loved. Karl went to talk to the pilots about the plane and Sooki and I sat in the little waiting area. Sooki Raphael, Mesa Tree, Topanga, from 'Vivid Series' 16 x 20 inches. Anything thats happened to me, any adversity, any good times, any bad times, Ive always kind of stood on that rock of faith. A few weeks later Hanks' publicist asks if she will fly to Washington, D.C., to interview him as part of his book tour. I thought he was angry and at the same time I knew my judgment to be flawed. I floated upstairs in a world that would not stop changing. As it turned out, Sooki and I needed the same thing: to find someone who could see us as our best and most complete selves. No events scheduled for January 22, 2023. People were sitting in their cars, in their driveways, charging their phones. I waited but nothing came next. She liked the team in Nashville. Sooki Raphael leaves her canvas as colorful as she has led her life. The energy it took to stay alive, the impossibility of quitting. It was such a short trip it hardly counted as being gone. I cleaned out the freezer and the refrigerator and at every moment thought, We are so lucky. They cant do the Stanford biopsy here? Like a Cessna? Patchett's good-hearted nature is on full display in the title essay of her new book, a portrait of her friend Sooki Raphael, the personal assistant of Tom Hanks. (It was not reassuring to know that one of the nurses at UCLA thought that Sloan Kettering was the name of the doctor Id be seeing.) It was just that we had piled up so much junk to keep from hearing it. Karl loved Sookis family and they all loved Karl. All this time Id been afraid of prying, only to discover that Sooki was happy to talk, to tell me about the bats, the sailboat to St.Barts, the desert in Tan-Tan, the surgery. Sooki was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, and Patchett's husband Karl is a doctor with some serious hookups, so Patchett arranged for Sooki to come to his Not everyone is like this. I surely would go ahead with the dates I had scheduled in the States. I cant just stay here forever.. In the twenty-six years that Karl and I had been together, Id never had the experience of coming home to dinner being made. As I was agreeing, there she was again. We started looking up articles on the Johns Hopkins website. At any point in life. She had to pack her boxes the next day, Tuesday. We talked and then we didnt. That led to Patchett's friendship with Sooki Raphael, Hanks' assistant, and Patchett inviting Raphael to live in her home in Nashville while undergoing cancer treatment. I know that after my last round of chemo I would sometimes get up and eat in the middle of the night, or get up early and make noisy smoothies. Later that day we sat side by side on our yoga mats, Sookis head wrapped artfully in a scarf. The thought of Tom Hanks benefiting from my assistance struck me as funny, and then I forgot about it. You understand that other people dont live this way?. There is no sense in putting that burden on yourself. may 21, 2019: Thank you for your concern about my medical procedure. I live fourteen minutes from the airport and five minutes from the hospital. Something happened to it while I was in the shower., She shook her head. My friend tilted her head. She had to make her train. Get Access to Print and Digital for At the heart of her new collection is a 66-page story about her transformational late-in-life friendship with Sooki Raphael, an artist and the longtime assistant to actor Tom Hanks. Now I knew several people who were using them as part of therapy. You can just concentrate on yourself., She shook her head. She had said almost nothing and yet my eye kept going to her, the way ones eye goes to the flash of iridescence on a hummingbirds throat. Maybe it had something to do with her job. After a series of emails, Sooki comes to live with Ann and her husband . These precious days Ill spend with you, I sang in my head. And then one night, for reasons I cannot imagine, we decided to do it all again before we went to sleep. I was starting to understand that what she needed might have been color rather than conversation, breath rather than words. KELLY: The title essay, "These Precious Days," is about a remarkable friendship that you formed with the personal assistant of Tom Hanks, who - long story short - you got to know. What had been a theorySooki should come to Nashville for her chemowas now a fact. He thanks me for it. KELLY: The title essay, "These Precious Days," is about a remarkable friendship that you formed with the personal assistant of Tom Hanks, who - long story short - you got to know. My mother raised me to be very religious, very God-conscious. KELLY: My conversation this past fall with author Ann Patchett about her latest book "These Precious Days. Id come up with the answer months ago. Except it was Sooki, and I liked her very much.. Sooki wore a leash as a child, the energy in her tiny frame too much for her mother to control. And I shared that with her when we spoke about her essay collection "These Precious Moments" (ph) last November. We both agreed that if this was the brink of extinction, it was nice to be together. When she gave us the painting she had done of Sparky on the back of the couch, I felt as if Matisse had painted our dog.. It has to be one of the most extraordinary stories of lockdown how Tom Hanks's assistant Sooki Raphael, undergoing treatment for recurrent pancreatic cancer, came to be living in the. Go together. Why shouldnt Tom Hanks write short stories? I felt like someone was slamming me against a wall, not in anger but as a job. And we had the most amazing time. There was no reason for her to tell me this. How had I not asked her all these things before? He has me repeat my name, birth date and area of radiation each time before I enter the room. Once she gets here and sees the way things are, shell be fine.. In an essay describing why she decided not to have children (There Are No Children Here) Patchett writes that she had to make a choice between writing and children and lacked the energy for both. Heres a universal truth: people are interested in helping Tom Hanks. To say that Patchett was impressed is an understatement. We talked about art. She was right here, Karl said. 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