05. my body, in parts - two

written 1 month and 6 days after

Oct 11, 2020

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In early 2024 you will be able to read HERE AFTER — a book about him, our life, my grief.

It is still surreal that HERE AFTER will be a physical thing in the world. I am so honoured to share the book with you all.

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Sometime around 9 p.m. on August 25, 2020, ten days after my husband died, a hospital porter wheeled me to radiology, where an ultrasound machine would be used to send high-frequency sound waves through my leg in order to create black and white images on a screen of what was inside my body, my veins in particular.

Why is it, I wondered as the wheelchair twisted and turned down the hospital hallways, that hospitals always look as if they were decorated by someone who could only access artwork that didn’t go at a garage sale?

05. my body, in parts - two

written 1 month and 6 days after

… I wrote a book.

In early 2024 you will be able to read HERE AFTER — a book about him, our life, my grief.

Why is it, I wondered as the wheelchair twisted and turned down the hospital hallways, that hospitals always look as if they were decorated by someone who could only access artwork that didn’t go at a garage sale?

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