Rooming Apart: Finding Two People's Space Under One Roof

Author: (French) Maris Wolins
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Publish Date: 2005-09-01
Features: Love is looking in the same direction.
In the gray waiting room of the hospital, it was empty. My mind was blank. The sky was overcast, and the glass on the window looked hazy. I didn’t know where the resident doctor on duty was. I couldn’t see him. He was speaking, but his voice was muffled, crackling like a radio tuned to the wrong frequency. My upper body seemed to be enclosed in a plastic box. When the words reached my ear, they were softer. What was he saying? I tried to listen. It was about surgical treatment, that the surgery would be the next day, but the doctor (whose name was followed by a professor’s title) had not yet confirmed the diagnosis. Maybe a bypass was needed, one or several, or even a simple angioplasty.