She made props for TV shows. Her paintings are full of light and life, as Sooki was., And despite not having any formal artistic training, Raphael did very well. Theyd fallen on the mailboxes. We were still at the beginning then. I would tell you we were idiots, but thats true only in retrospect. She joined the ships crew. I took her to the J.M.W.Turner exhibition at the art museum. Sooki went downstairs to her room. My mother was a pilot, Sooki said, and there she was, suddenly at ease. That didnt work. For a time, the mother in this novel went to India to work for Mother Teresa. Recurrent pancreatic cancer kept me focused on the present moment. 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. Will time be linear or can it stutter and skip? Tom and Rita were in Australia, where he was about to start shooting a movie about Elvis Presley. Lets go back to the hotel. People were out with their dogs. The caps were in the Mary Poppins suitcase, along with her paints and easel, the large blanket she had brought us as a gift, and her extensive wardrobe. The ones who stayed turned out to be the ones I was interested in. She had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer a year after we met. 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. 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. I wanted to say hello very quietly so as not to bother her. I felt like someone was slamming me against a wall, not in anger but as a job. ANN PATCHETT: Aw, Mary Louise. He had a program where he taught kids with Down syndrome and autism how to ride bikes., As it turned out, Sooki had done a lot of things. Sooki had two young grandchildren in San Diego and made plans to bring them to an event I was doing there, but they didnt show. I tried to enjoy it but it was difficult to breathe. I would be gone for the night, and once I got back my friend Emma Straub was coming to visit. The title essay focuses on Patchett's friendship with Sooki Raphael, Tom Hanks' personal assistant, who spent the early months of quarantine in Patchett's Nashville home while receiving. And despite the fact that cancer has essentially been her whole life, Cuozzo has recognized herself as a lot more than a diagnosis by focusing on her life as a mother and an artist. She met a group of sailors who had sailed around the world. It may also depend on how you feel about cancer narratives as well as the life-enhancing or -destroying power of what are now politely referred to as psychedelic plants, but which used to be called drugs., Ultimately, though, the story shares its DNA with other essays in the book that focus on Patchetts life as a writer specifically, where and how she gets her material. When Sooki and Karl got home that night, they were elated. I was convinced it wouldnt show up and embarked on a full-scale exploratory mission into holistic healing, prayer, juicing, yoga, meditation, sound waves, and magnetic magic (this last one, highly recommended by a friend, but in a clinic run by a reality-tv star). She was welcome. The energy it took to stay alive, the impossibility of quitting. She was disappointed. I dont take notes. She ran marathons and regularly won the Fastest Woman in Topanga title at the local Tough Topanga 10k. Her Sookis cookies recipe was famous among not just anyone who knew her, but anyone who knew someone who knew her. Thats an important distinction and I encourage anybody who goes through this journey as a caregiver and then has to face loss, to think very carefully about how to move forward.. She asked whether that was cheating and was told not to worry about it. He's really interesting. 2023 USA TODAY, a division of Gannett Satellite Information Network, LLC. And you will always be in our hearts., And despite not having any formal artistic training, Raphael has done very well. 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. Once Im there for chemo, I will find a place where I wont be worried about being a good houseguest. Then came the moment one feels on a roller coaster just as the bar locks into place and the car starts to pull up, the body pressing back into the seat, knees out ahead, and you think, Wait a minute, was this the best. She was twenty-one. That was my reward. If asked if she could go any place, that place would always be home. Was it like they said it would be, life-changing? Wed had a very good life. feb. 15, 2020: I will try to keep this quick as I know you have many fish to fry. PATCHETT: I really, really appreciate that. I went to Virginia to see my friend Rene Fleming in concert. Sooki of the magnificent coat. These months of exercise would save me. After a series of emails, Sooki comes to live with Ann and her husband . Heres a universal truth: people are interested in helping Tom Hanks. A weekly email taking aim at the relentless absurdity of the 24-hour news cycle. It was just that we had piled up so much junk to keep from hearing it. I asked her about her trip to Stanford for the biopsy, her flight to Nashville. It must have fallen off my shoulder when I got in the car. Sooki was a tiny thing, with thick brown hair and olive skin. That was how I saw the coronavirusas something that could kill Sooki. And that was so sweet, but what it meant was I couldn't go home for Thanksgiving. It made her crazy not to be there to help. While they were gone I tried to imagine it: the cancer back, the wallet gone, strangers. Its like youre going home to the Ukraine for the first time in ten years, I said as we loaded up coolers and bags. I want to meet Tom Hanks, she said. 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. The clothes are small, she said. You have a pretty head, I told Sooki when the job was done. Speaking of which: The essay about your friendship with Sooki Raphael [Tom Hanks' assistant, whom Patchett met while interviewing Hanks at an event in 2017 and who died in April of this year . No events scheduled for January 16, 2023. These are the precious days of the title. A post shared by Sooki Raphael (@sookiraphaelartist), What came out of her brush was a feast of colors and stories that she had kept in her heart for years, feelings that were just waiting to explode, the post read. Karl said she should send him her records if she wanted to, and that he would talk to Johanna Bendell, an oncologist at the hospital where he works. Every time her mother turned around, Sooki was gone.. Would it even work? OVERVIEW EXHIBITIONS BIOGRAPHY Past Exhibitions. We are Southern, and it is like this here, always. 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. Treatments were on Wednesdaysthree Wednesdays on, one Wednesday offwith immunotherapy (the trial) every other week. We are. The spring was cold and wet and endlessly beautiful because of it. Surely there were sadder things, but none of them came to mind. Sooki and I needed the same thing: to find someone who could see us as our best and most complete selves, writes Patchett. She had worked for Tom for almost twenty years, and part of her responsibility was to go out on location before he arrived, find a place to stay in Morocco, get a driver, figure out the food, figure out what there was to see if there was any time, which usually there wasnt. She had been in the house for only a few minutes; there hadnt been enough time to lose anything. Nothing had to. Enter your new information and click on Save My Changes. What was the line of childrens clothing called? You must have Mary Poppinss suitcase.. We have some picnic tables outside the police station, the officer said. The CA 19-9 had gone from 2,100 to 470. We did a different hour-long class every morning, identifying our favorites, ordering more DVDs. Whether all of this together was what helped, or whether she had made up her mind to see only the good, I couldnt say. Could I meet him at the bookstore, Parnassus, in half an hour? The very fact of her existence in our house kept me on track. This was the closest I could come to understanding what happened to Sooki. Rita Wilson recently posted a tribute to her friend, Sooki Raphael, who painted throughout her treatment for pancreatic cancer. To the best of my knowledge, she never quit. The last few months, the oncologists were watching the numbers and Western medicine offered nothing to do but to wait and see where the cancer showed up. She needed me to take her to the hospital for an X-ray. A Celebration of Life will take place in Topanga, CA on August 21, 2021. She and Ken put what mattered most in the car and started driving, waiting to see which way the wind would shift the wall of flame. It was late and Id just finished the novel Id been reading. Karl was home from work when we got to the house, and he and I showed Sooki around. Plenty of nuns were married before., You never know. Then she looked at me, her face suddenly brightened by a plot twist. 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. But of course I was the one who took everything. Karl came home and we sat on the couch and watched a storm tearing up the backyard. Niki works at the bookstore. 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. He thrilled them, buying stacks of books, signing books, posing for pictures, going next door to the Donut Den for an apple fritter. . 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 Her mother is the novelist Jeanne Ray. Sooki had twice flown down to Mississippi with us to visit Karls ninety-eight-year-old mother. Sooki had brought her computer with her. Paintings by Sooki Raphael. Twenty-five people had been killed in the last round of tornadoes in Nashville, two months before. We hugged, and I hefted her enormous suitcase into the hatchback. Im good. There she was in the passenger seat, a shy person with a quiet voice. A couple of authors who were scheduled to have events at the bookstore had pulled out. Get help here. Coping with the loss of a loved one to cancer is incredibly challenging, but moving forward with the lessons your loved one shared and remembering you dont have to forget them to move forward can be a great place to start. Her sisters were in, her mother was thrilled. Sooki, the middle daughter. Pancreatic cancer is an aggressive disease that is difficult to detect because symptoms including jaundice and weight loss typically present at a later stage in the cancers development. Im sorry to bother you, Sooki said, looking around. We knew it. The meeting led to Patchett asking Hanks on a "lark of the highest order" if he would narrate the audio version of her novel The Dutch House the ensuing . He told me he was going to take his grandsons to the river to go boating. "[Sooki] was so many things," Wilson wrote. All the neighborhood dogs began to howl and bark. He said they were running more trials for pancreatic cancer than Sloan Kettering. I hoped he would ask me to join them. I had never found a way of asking what having cancer had been like for her, or what it meant to so vigorously refuse the hand you were dealt. I was happy, even thrilled, to stop traveling. Actress & Fitness Guru Jane Fonda, 85, Says Chemo Hit Me Hard Fighting Lymphoma Years After Breast Cancer, Rock Band Kiss Co-Founder Peter Criss, 77, Male Breast Cancer Survivor, Releases New Version Of Classic Dirty Livin, For Healthy Skin Month, Take Advice From Vanderpump Rules Star Ariana Madix, a Melanoma Survivor, and Speak Up About Concerns, You Can Overcome, Says Rebecca Crews, 56, How She and Husband Terry Crews Got Through Losing Their Home, Five Kids, And Cancer. Where was Sooki? Where were you born? Of course we could. Are you serious? Sookis loving memory will live on in her husband Ken Wheeland, son Cody Wheeland, his wife Sara Wheeland and their children Anja and Oliver, her daughter Alison Villalobos and husband Luke Villalobos, her mother Miriam Raphael, her sisters Judy Raphael and Ruth Raphael, her stepbrothers Michael Fishman and Philip Fishman, and stepfather Ted Fishman an amazing circle of friends and extended family. Look at what a success this time had been! When it was over, I managed to make my way into the shower, perhaps the biggest single accomplishment of my life. You yourself are heartfelt, and all the love in the world has been expressed. I was leaving the next day for an event in New York. I pushed my face into his shoulder, apologizing. RELATED:Tom Hanks and Rita Wilsons Friend and Assistant Dies from Pancreatic Cancer; See Their Heartfelt Tribute to the Artist, A post shared by Rita Wilson (@ritawilson), Throughout her illness she painted, she saw beauty, she created and she never wavered, Wilson said. What will happen? It was a science experiment that could never be replicated. If it hadnt been for the cancer, I never would have come here. This text may not be in its final form and may be updated or revised in the future. Email tilts toward the overly familiar. Shes married, I said. Didnt he know? Many were introduced to Sooki Raphael through Ann Patchett's book, "These Precious Days" There Sooki's grace, creativity and strength were immortalized though Ann's words. I was copied on a barrage of emails I had no business reading, reports of molecular profiling, adenocarcinoma, tumor tissue for genetic analysis. He wasnt listening. I leave the house at 6:30 am every weekday morning to make it down to the bottom basementfloor 2Bat UCLAs Westwood Medical Center by 7:30 am. I feel like I could pop into Trader Joes and have them replaced with those happy little stickers they hand out to well-behaved childrenit undermines my confidence in the sophisticated nature of the whole process just a bit. We talked about the nightmare of health insuranceand how the percentage of treatment costs she and Ken had to pay out of pocket had wiped out their retirement, had wiped out everything. I think I know what Im doing when in truth I have no idea. She loved Dr.Bendell. For them the mystery is solved by the act, and I understand that; its just not the way I work. He shook his head. And this led to you meeting Sooki. There had been a meeting of some sort. And this led to you meeting Sooki. They took ten vials of blood on one visit, twenty-eight vials the next. Karl loved Sookis family and they all loved Karl. More:Amazon releases its best books of 2021 list: 'An embarrassment of riches'. I think about you often and hope for the best. Karl disagreed. And it's such a funny thing. PATCHETT: So I first met Sooki Raphael backstage when I was interviewing Tom for his collection of short stories. The story has started without my realizing it. Seventy percent of participants rated it among the most personally meaningful and spiritually significant experiences of their lives. He rolled his eyes, but he kept reading. Ann Patchett and Tom Hanks' assistant? I was told that although not everyone wanted to commit to having the tattoos, it was the most accurate way to align the radiation field that had been so meticulously laid out by a team of physicists working alongside my radiation oncologist. You can be certain that she loves the job. And now there was a pandemic, recurrent pancreatic cancer, and so this goodbye reminded me of my father coming onto the plane with us, sitting with me and my sister, the three of us sobbing inconsolably until finally the flight attendant would tell him he had to go. In her last two and a half years, Sooki started painting. Much love. Going forward, the lights may as well be off. 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. After a while she drifted up to the kitchen, taking a stab at the half of banana I had abandoned. I would leave again on Sunday for Virginia. In bed that night, Karl told me about how happy they all were, how kind. Vivaldi, Vivaldi, Vivaldithats how it starts. Then this: june 21, 2019: As of last week, my six-month chemo run is done, and I had a follow up CT scan. When undergoing treatment for cancer, looking inward for inspiration can be a very cathartic journey that helps with recovery. She was teaching at Bennington, in Vermont, and this was the first day of classes. When I rely on my faulty memory, the pieces are free to move. Its why I dont like to go to other peoples houses for dinner: I never want to tell people Im a vegetarian. They cant do the Stanford biopsy here? And he did. There were mornings we would go to the store at first light, when no one was around, and tape up boxes and stick on labels together. 17, 2019: Hey! (He also flies a Cessna plane, which comes in handy when Sookis mother is taken into hospital in New York.) The paintings came from a landscape of dreams, pattern on pattern, impossible colors leaning into one another. . Pay attention, I told myself. You can live here for the rest of your life, I said, and I meant it. And so when I looked up dressing, you know, it says, start with a loaf of day-old bread and make cubes. That was the point of everything. I wouldnt have had this time with you and Karl. Sister Nena stopped for a minute to lock Sooki in her heart. Im self-conscious about being in the way, especially if Im not at my best through chemo. dec. 27, 2019: Sweetest Ann, I am traveling todayjust for the dayup to Stanford for a second opinion, with the magicians elephant in my carry-on bag. She was checking email or trying to make notes. She was an expert in dealing with the medical system, after all. Forget about the heartfelt letters. I would save what I could save, and, along with my business partner, Karen Hayes, and a small, ferocious staff (including my sister Heather) who never backed down, I was determined to save the bookstore. It was anchored by a quarter inch of hair at most but it was indeed anchored. And I think that that's the best thing we can possibly do." At Harper 's Ann Patchett spins the tale of her unexpected and deep friendship with Sooki Raphael who worked as a personal assistant to Tom Hanks: "Come on, Sooki," [Hanks] said, his voice gone grand. Now for no particular reason I changed my mind. Having lost his mom to breast cancer in 2018, he knew he wanted to be extra careful during the pandemic. He uses the library table to spread out his papers. Go together. And the trial at UCLA was canceled because that's what COVID did. My friend Sister Nena had just called. Not everyone is like this. This was eight hours of hard labor. Twenty-five people died in Nashville the night of those tornadoes. Its HARD. I asked her. In the story, Patchett writes, "Pay attention, I told myself. I looked up every anomaly online, settling on too much black tea, or maybe the wrong color shoes. And anyway, UCLA had suspended its plans to start the clinical trial for recurrent pancreatic cancer. She was thrilled to get the chance to work. RELATED: If Youre A First Degree Relative of Someone With Pancreatic Cancer, Screening and Surveillance Could Save Your Life; Heres Why, Because the pancreas is inside the abdomen often doesnt have symptoms that would tell you that something is wrong with your pancreas, he says. Ken would come later. Susan Joan Sooki Raphael of Topanga, CA passed peacefully on April 25th surrounded by friends, family, color, light, joy, and love. We have come to the point in this story when time changes. I remember when you asked me months ago if he knew I was here and I panicked. And I want you to explain why that felt easier to write during a pandemic than fiction. It was such a short trip it hardly counted as being gone. One thing led to another chief among them, finding out about Raphaels illness and soon, the movie stars longtime assistant had moved into her house. He was thinking about opening one himself. And so I couldn't call my mom. The car was taking me into yellow, not a field of yellow but into the color itself. I was impressed that first day when the therapists swarmed the table forming the mold around me and explaining about tattoos. Many people loved it; some dared to hate it. This wasnt about an inability to get good medical care; it was about not being able to find a clinical trial that both matched her cancer and could accept her immediately. I guess you never know if youre the person whos going to look good bald until youre bald.. I met her briefly . Nell stayed for six months and we loved her. We laughed at ourselves, at the practice, at the voice that told us we were flowers, we were leopards, but we didnt stop. Theres usually a guy working the light board and the mics who talks to me for a minute, though tonight the guy talking was Tom Hanks. Sooki Raphael, Mesa Tree, Topanga, from 'Vivid Series' 16 x 20 inches. 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. I went by myself. UCLA would fold her into their trial, everything seamless. What about your sisters? I asked. Like most of her paintings, the artwork from the exhibition is full of color only a soul eager to see the beauty in every day could translate onto canvas. Before I can start writing a novel, I have to know how it ends. People were sitting in their cars, in their driveways, charging their phones. I made a documentary about my father. The paintings came from a landscape of dreams, pattern on pattern, impossible colors leaning into one another. There was no more walking to a class in the dark of morningeverything was closedand so I asked her if she wanted to exercise with me. But also undeniable are Patchetts generosity of spirit, compassion and gift for friendship. He wanted to know why I hadnt told him this. Suffice to say the car I was strapped into followed a tunnel down into dark and darker colors, narrower spaces. I wasnt looking for permission, but it was a matter of mutual respect. My husband is a doctor, and I was telling him about this one night. Called These Precious Days(Harper, 320 pp., out of four, out Tuesday) after a line from the pop standard September Song, memorably recorded by another Nashville legend, Willie Nelson, the essay lends its melancholy title to a new collection of essays by one of Americas premier writers. I had put a notebook and a pen beside me on the floor before we started. You always feel this way on Friday., Thats what Im here for, I said. 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. But she could. I can fly you up, Karl offered, once her mother was safely home. All the people who love me and how hard this has been for them, the cancer. . I was going to tell Karl what was happening but he was looking at his own phone. I didnt understand what it was, but something was in the air. But I cant just live with you and Karl for the rest of my life.. Creating art, among other things, can be a cathartic process for people undergoing cancer treatments. The days went on and I could feel Sooki slipping, hounded by her own indecision. It had been languishing in a pile by the dresser for a while, and Id left it there because of an unarticulated belief that actors should stick to acting. Get as many nuns on this as possible. There is no sense in putting that burden on yourself. There is a possibility that a $25 painting acquired in 1899 was an original Raphael worth $26 million. In a heartfelt tribute after she died, Wilson told followers about the lovely artist that was her dear friend and shared some of her vibrant paintings. PATCHETT: So I first met Sooki Raphael backstage when I was interviewing Tom for his collection of short stories. The wind was coming down the street like a train. 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Timeless stories from our 172-year archive handpicked to speak to the news of the day. Marriage meant that he would hear out what on the surface may have appeared to be a spectacularly stupid idea. The experience of waiting backstage before an event is always the same. And then I found out that she had had pancreatic cancer, that she had had a Whipple, that she had gone through chemo and radiation, that she had been pronounced cancer free, that her cancer came back. Id come up with the answer months ago. I wonder, I said to her one night while we walked Sparky around the block, do you think youre a good assistant because youre a private person, or did you become a private person because youve been an assistant for a long time?. Copyright 2022 NPR. I didnt know what I was supposed to do, she told me later. Everything was tremendously present tense for Sooki. No events scheduled for January 18, 2023. The phone hadnt been run over, nothing in the wallet was missing. 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