Aja Jin wrote:

starexplorer wrote:

I rely on this group for any information about CJC. I don’t follow any other sources.

What is this business about “bouts of anesthetic“? 

Very  sad news, of course. I still have many of her books to read, which should keep me busy for a long time after I step down from paid work on May 22.

She had two incidents of cancer, so she would have had anesthetic during those treatments.  

Thanks. Even so, do we understand why receiving an anesthetic would impair her ability to write? Usually the effects of anesthesia are transient. I could understand better were she saying the decision was a result of consequences of cancer or cancer treatment. It is just a bit unusual to me to focus specifically on an “anaesthetic”.

One of the customers I have at my shop is in her 80s and had to go through chemotherapy. She can be forgetful and knows it. Sometimes it shows in fumbling for common words, sometimes in having trouble reciting what she does in the daily routines of her life. She has a bright disposition and calls it "chemo-brain", though I will admit she hasn't specified anesthesia.

Like Cherryh has said on Facebook, she is able to lead a normal life. But from how that customer has described it and from the limited ways it can be a stumbling block when she has to describe how she wants me to change something, I can imagine that recalling so many names, details, and plot threads over two book series would be a struggle.

Last edited by Roci (5/12/2026 11:46 pm)

Multiple, prolonged procedures requiring anesthetic does tend to mess up a person's brain. And Herself has had many major surgeries in a relatively short timespan. That effect is why most surgeons suggest 6 mo or more between procedures. And yeah, that chemo didn't help at all. That in itself will ruin your grey cells in a heartbeat.

Last edited by Griffinmoon (5/17/2026 10:19 pm)

The news that CJ will no longer be writing was a true gut punch that I am still having difficulty processing.  I am not sure why, other than we are about the same age.  Meanwhile we each in our own way will have to finish series for ourselves.Just read that Joan Baez is also retiring