My blogger friend, Butterfly has been moved to the ICU. It pains me to write this, but it’s what happens. Her husband has been reading her all the tweets, emails, and texts that those who are rooting for her are sending. She has a work safe version of her cancer blog, and it’s here. Lifelovecancer.wordpress.com. She’s 31 years old. Give a read. It’s as fascinating as it is heartbreaking. It’s been rough on Kiki, because it’s an echo of Cindy, the woman who died in her arms, in the helicopter crash. In any case it’s sad. She’s a sweet soul, and I want you all, dear youdopians, to know her.

Youdopians, you have read about my friend, Butterfly Temptress, and her fight with stage 4 cervical cancer. Well, her insurance won’t cover her pre-existing condition, and the lab WON’T TREAT HER ANYMORE because she can’t afford it. Oh, and the kicker? Her insurance, having literally left her to die, won’t even cover her pain medication. This leaves her bed ridden, bored, and in constant pain. Yay, america. Bring on the socialism, assholes. We all just paid 800 Billion dollars to keep a bunch of demons from experiencing the consequences of their idiocy… if you can give a dollar to Butterfly (obviously not her real name, but her real name is ten times more beautiful) then great. If you can’t, or won’t, then… leave a positive comment on her blog. A lot of her friends have abandoned her, because death, yes… death, is a buzzkill. Trust me when I tell you that a simple “hello and good luck” will help. She needs something more to do than write letters to her children to read… later. Jesus. Send her some love, please.

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Let me get right to the point: Our very own Best Sex Blogger, the Butterfly Temptress, is fighting for her life.  I mean that literally.  She is fighting to watch her children grow up and to grow old with her Knight.  I’m not just worked up and impassioned just because she’s fighting cancer, though.  No, what has me enraged is that she’s exerting precious energy fighting the system.  What kind of a country do we live in where we stand by and watch someone be denied cancer treatment because of money?  You know it happens — if you make just too much you don’t qualify for medicaid, and if you are like most of us, you’re working without benefits.  I suppose the lab has the right to deny her treatment, it is a business, but I could never imagine working for a company like that.  I wouldn’t last a day as a pharmacist – if a cancer patient came to me saying she needs pain medication, I would give it to her.

Well, I told the Butterfly Temptress that I am not going to sit idly by and watch as she is denied treatment that could save her life and medicine that can relieve her pain.  It’s inhumane.

Originally, I started posting about the series, but didn’t actually post them here.  They were all to be posted on the blog at EdenFantasys.com, as EdenFantasys.com has offered to match any monies raised between now and November 18th, 2008.  While it is my understanding that they have not rescinded their offer to match donations, it is also my impression that whether or not they post the remainder of the series is up in the air.  So, I have been given permission to post them here, so that we, her CommUNITY can repost them widely.

Now it is for us, her CommUNITY, to march beside her into battle.  You can read her post about finally accepting the support that I know this CommUNITY can offer her, and I don’t just mean financial support.  Please spread the word.  Twitter the link.  Please send a link here from your blog.  Please offer her your love and encouragement.  And if you are in a position to donate money to Butterfly, please remember that anything you give between now and November 18th is doubled and that 100% of every cent of every dollar goes straight to Butterfly (ok, so Paypal charges their fee).  I know some people are uncomfortable with Paypal, and I am sure that other arrangements can be made.

Start reading tomorrow as I post daily each part of the ten-part series: Life.Love.Cancer and start spreading the word now, please.  Start now by going to her post and giving her your love, encouragement, prayers, and blessings.  Fill her comments with emotional armor.

I made a friend today. Her name (here in the floating world) is the Butterfly Temptress, and she’s sweet, funny, kind, and ill. She has stage 4 cervical cancer, and it’s travelled through her lymphatic system throughout her body… including her brain stem. Kiki spent some time online with her yesterday, picking out caskets. When Whitney’s school crisis came up, and we held a raffle to help raise funds, Butterfly Temptress donated money. She was fighting this, and in a financial crisis of her own (it costs a lot to die in America)… and yet she gave, and gave freely.

Now we’re raising money for her, and the wheel rolls on. The immanence of death makes the friendship process all the more intense and honest, because there isn’t time to fuck around. There’s no real point to this post, aside from the immediate and real.

So, ok.