Bringing healing to the table
[2008-7-21]
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It's a metaphor for how cancer changes a life but doesn't have todestroy every enjoyment.
It was January 2000, and Madeleine McKay had just learned that herhusband, novelist, artist, journalist, playwright and sometime TVactor (the 1950s series "Adventures in Paradise") Gardner McKay,had an extremely virulent form of prostate cancer. He was told hehad only a short time to live, though he survived for almost twomore years, continuing his writing and attempting to retain hisconsiderable joie de vivre.
He would rise early, retire to his one-room writing cottageseparate from their Koko Head home, work through the day with stopsfor breakfast, perhaps a short kayak workout (which generally endedat a local coffee shop), work again for a couple of hours, thenlunch, more work and a lavish dinner with wine, his beloved wifeand perhaps some friends. Meanwhile, Madeleine McKay would be inher studio, painting; she produces gorgeous still-lifes, often offood, and her work will decorate her book when it is published.
"He was a gourmand," said Madeleine McKay, "He loved to eat." Andhaving lived all over the world, he loved many kinds of foods:Mediterranean-style meals, French country food, and dishes he grewto love while living in the Canary Islands for a time. Like manymen, he has a preference for every fatty thing: beef and lamb,butter and cream, especially ice cream.
But Madeleine McKay was learning that these very things may,according to burgeoning research, encourage and nurture cancercells.
Speaking quietly, and with a somewhat far-away look, McKay (who hassince remarried, to Hawai'i Public Radio president and generalmanager Michael Titterton) recalls that the first thing she andGardner McKay did, in the despairing hours after they got thediagnosis, was sit in the living room looking at each other,stunned. And then they shared a bottle of champagne and began tolaugh and "get a bit silly." Because what can you do?
But there were things to do. They sought out the best treatmentthey could find, here and in Los Angeles. They began a naturopathicherbal regimen. They practiced visualization, picturing thecancerous cells being destroyed. They attempted to get intoclinical trials for new therapies.
Meanwhile, Gardner McKay fought in his studio, working through themisery of radiation and chemotherapy to complete two writingprojects. "Now," he told Madeleine, "I'm really on a deadline."
It's a metaphor for how cancer changes a life but doesn't have todestroy every enjoyment.
It was January 2000, and Madeleine McKay had just learned that herhusband, novelist, artist, journalist, playwright and sometime TVactor (the 1950s series "Adventures in Paradise") Gardner McKay,had an extremely virulent form of prostate cancer. He was told hehad only a short time to live, though he survived for almost twomore years, continuing his writing and attempting to retain hisconsiderable joie de vivre.
He would rise early, retire to his one-room writing cottageseparate from their Koko Head home, work through the day with stopsfor breakfast, perhaps a short kayak workout (which generally endedat a local coffee shop), work again for a couple of hours, thenlunch, more work and a lavish dinner with wine, his beloved wifeand perhaps some friends. Meanwhile, Madeleine McKay would be inher studio, painting; she produces gorgeous still-lifes, often offood, and her work will decorate her book when it is published.
"He was a gourmand," said Madeleine McKay, "He loved to eat." Andhaving lived all over the world, he loved many kinds of foods:Mediterranean-style meals, French country food, and dishes he grewto love while living in the Canary Islands for a time. Like manymen, he has a preference for every fatty thing: beef and lamb,butter and cream, especially ice cream.
But Madeleine McKay was learning that these very things may,according to burgeoning research, encourage and nurture cancercells.
Speaking quietly, and with a somewhat far-away look, McKay (who hassince remarried, to Hawai'i Public Radio president and generalmanager Michael Titterton) recalls that the first thing she andGardner McKay did, in the despairing hours after they got thediagnosis, was sit in the living room looking at each other,stunned. And then they shared a bottle of champagne and began tolaugh and "get a bit silly." Because what can you do?
But there were things to do. They sought out the best treatmentthey could find, here and in Los Angeles. They began a naturopathicherbal regimen. They practiced visualization, picturing thecancerous cells being destroyed. They attempted to get intoclinical trials for new therapies.
Meanwhile, Gardner McKay fought in his studio, working through themisery of radiation and chemotherapy to complete two writingprojects. "Now," he told Madeleine, "I'm really on a deadline."
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