Hospital

The hospital is the temple of expectations, subjugated by the bureaucracies of paperwork and those of the soul.
You are there waiting for acceptance to be “accepted” and, philologically, this is already a whole program of contrast between the sign and the meaning.
When, finally, you have been “accepted” by young ladies who try to remain polite, but who exude nervous breakdowns from every pore (it must be said that they often have every reason to), then you have to wait to be “called”, a daring vision of the distance between you, humble sufferer, and the eternal father on earth, the doctor, breathless and overloaded who, despite the power of his art, finds himself trapped in a routine that diminishes the magic of his actions and his position and it makes you equally enslaved, impatient patient – the only difference is which side of the desk you sit on while you both invoke the favor from above of the institution that can allow you to take note of the real protagonist: the disease.
The process repeats itself while the patient is tossed from one doctor to another and the doctor is tossed from one patient to another, each unaware of the sensitivity of the other because when the protagonist, the disease, enters the field, it seems that the person disappear macerated and mangled by the voluptuousness of evil which remains above and does not listen and does not follow except “practice”.
We then move on to another wait: the outcome. The outcome of the reports and the consultation that concern you, but in which you are absent because your life is decided outside and above you.
You have no say and if your personal choice ever conflicts with the decisions made about you without listening to you or explaining yourself, then the responsibility is yours, the fault is yours and everyone, once again, will wash their hands of your story without understanding that you need to understand and help them manage you in the path that they impart and you undergo, you cannot change this, but you would like to do it with dignity.
Then begins the wait for what’s next. What’s going to happen? There are no answers to this other than those with which you yourself can convince yourself, or try to do so, that everything will be for the best.
Yet, unlike the facade you have to put on to please and make those around you feel calm, you know that this is not the case, that your path is increasingly downhill. You feel that all those preparations, the operations, the blood, the bruises, are only apparently visible to others, but no one can imagine what they dig inside your silence.
At this point of the disease you know well that what has opened up before you with that type of metastasis is only a more or less steep path, of course, but always dotted with fragments and rough stones that tear from the inside and the outside. your body and who you are.
What is expected of you and what you expect are no longer the same thing. You know you can still respond with a smile, courage, patience, to the expectations that surround you, but you would also like others to understand that what you are waiting for is something else, that you need to prepare yourself as well as them, that you need may your freedom in the face of what you experience be fully understood and left free to go.
Don’t close my spirit in the pain of a body, this is my wait, in dignity and love.

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