Hospitals

5,274 words by 9 writers in Berlin, Årsta & elsewhere

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Hospitals

Chemical Christmas

by Maria Coveou

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...

Hospitals, music

Chemo

by Maria Coveou

Athens — When it was time for Taxol to come in (that’s the drug that will be making all my hair fall off, and the first of the hardcore chemicals), I put on music. I chose my Pan Am compilation, and boy did it...

Hospitals

Heart

by Maria Coveou

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...

Hospitals, music

MRI

by Maria Coveou

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...

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