A MOMENT OF HOPE ( by Silvia F)
I fast as required for this test, I drink a lot of water as well, and drive to the hospital. I park the car and as I walk towards the building I realize I don’t remember this place. Yet I’ve been here just 3 months ago. The lobby looks vaguely familiar, but passed that I’m not sure of anything, my memories are blurred. I feel a wave of shock taking over. I’m slightly dizzy. Maybe it’s because I had to fast. I recall the first time I was here, not the place, but the feeling. The diagnosis had been delivered. The kind of information that you sort of know but you don’t really know, and you walk on the edge of it until you hear the word: cancer. That word pushes you off the edge and you feel like you are falling into something that feels like it has no bottom. I knew deep inside, that cancer was everywhere in my body. I felt it. Clearly. This time I like to believe I’m prepared. I brought a banana for later, and a book that indeed is 100% a piece of erotica. As I read it I imagine the
