Disfigured, 1995
He sits stooped in bed, scowling. “I look like a corpse.” Robert’s face and neck are disfigured from surgery and radiation. His body is bruised and bone skinny. A tracheostomy tube juts from his neck, a feeding tube from his belly. It is cancer; too many cigarettes for too many ... Read More
Sitting with a Dying Physician
The smell of sickness saturates the room. A vomit basin, half full, lies on Mary’s lap. Her thin lips quiver. “I can’t eat or drink anything.” She shakes an unused cup of melting ice in her right hand; a tangle of tubes and wires jostle. She grabs an ice cube ... Read More