HAJI MOHAMED DAWJEE: Waiting room blues

Growing up, my parents were obsessed with medical-themed TV programs. I was fed a steady diet of ER, Chicago Hope and then, of course, Grey’s Anatomy. These kinds of series always fascinated me and they still do, and they remain the source of many questions.

When I wrote the chapter A Brain Tumour Can Save Your Life in my book Sorry, Not Sorry, I was convinced the story had a definite beginning, middle and end. It didn’t because four years later, the tale of trauma continues. And we find ourselves sitting in a waiting room outside an ICU ward, four days more than the first time around, anticipating a second-coming once again – this time, with a few changes, some major and some minor.

The period of four days felt like forever, like we were waiting for something to arrive, even though we felt like it never would, but we lived in hope. In times like these, hope looks like literally anything you need it to look like. Sometimes it’s the feeling of being full all the time, and not ever needing food. At other times, it’s sugar addiction – the desperate attempt to fill the void of delay with candy, cake and doughnuts.

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