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Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Mar 7 2022
Pages: 118
Weight: 0.32
Height: 0.25 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
I had a good life, but it wasn't all roses. In December 2020 I bumped into the enemy, covid19, and the ICU of the Hospital ClÃnic in Barcelona has been the oneiric setting for trips back and forth between life and death. I have learned what an induced coma is all about, the chaos of dreams, trips to the beyond, months spent in a wheelchair, learning to walk again, to do my hair, to put on my shoes, to open a bottle of water... I have also learned how essential it is to ask for help.
I still have it, the good life, thanks to fate, cortisone and an extraordinary life companion, that is luck.
This is a story so that I don't forget small things such as humility, dedication, love and the friendly face of death, the one I have seen. Only when we are far from the end of our days are we able to say I do not fear death, only its antechamber. But to have it there in front of you by a fortuitous event, to see it lying between your sheets without having invited it... That is another matter.
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