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William Coachman Huber
– 2012 10 27 W.C.H. I can’t say life is without pain. I can’t say that a life without pain would not lose something ineffable and powerful, and in some way, gestational. I am not glorifying pain, or excusing it, or inviting it. I am merely stating what appear to be observable facts from…
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The Swim
One of my favorite quotes from Joseph Campbell: The mystic swims in the water where the common man drowns. …
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Pre Para Tions
Dear, I’d like to keep you up to date on tonight’s activity. Bill has turned down the options Gil and I put on the table before him, not by choosing, but by not choosing (which is also a choice): Get a catheter installed at the hospital Stay at home (tonight) and “stay the course” Dad’s…
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Rough Night
Yesterday was one of those days. It had been a rough night at the CER (Saturday Night) The ward was short staffed, I think only four nurses instead of six And it was raining like mad. the ward was packed (22 patients, about 10 Acompanhantes) it began to leak LOTS of water INTO the hallways…
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Failure Fails
CER, Leblon. Rio de Janeiro. January 19th Bill has been doing progressively better. Today the day started with a question mark: does Bill have kidney failure? The blood tests that have been conducted every morning, and which have shown Bill’s creatinine levels steadily dropping, retreating from what appeared to be the sure road to…
Photographs. Sort of.