Athina — Today, there was a Christmas tree waiting, with blinking lights and everything. A surreal note amidst the grimness, but it helps, if you ask me. I took the bed next to the door so that I could look at it during my chemo. I observe the faces of the relatives - especially the sons and daughters - when they stand on the doorway looking at their loved ones receiving their treatment. They seem so worr...
Athina — Today, one month and three weeks after my surgery, I choose to write again because today I can write again. The surgery went very well, but my recovery took forever. Today is the first day I am feelin...
Athina — Don’t know who invented the MRI scanner and who came up with this amalgam of sounds produced by the machine, but they sure had lots of imagination. When I entered the MRI room I was met by a sound th...
Athina — An embryo without brain. Not a pretty sight. But it is on display in a tiny museum that you have to cross on the way to the university hospital cafeteria, for all the world to see. An easily scared f...
Waiting Rooms
Mimis – ‘The Source of Eyeglasses’
Acropolis
Making Athens look small with a long lens
Farmers’ Markets
Alternative Prayer Book
At The Acropoliiis
Heart
Neighbor
MRI
Chemical Christmas