Kategoriarkiv: diseases

En ensam plats blir ensammare

This post is only in Swedish as it is about a newly published book which is only available in Swedish (so far) and the hullabaloo a scandlous review in a tabloid caused on many Swedish culture pages.   I år … Fortsätt läsa

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Breast cancer as a personal experience (II)

In English below       ; Jag blev aldrig rädd när jag diagnostiserades med cancer. Jag fick aldrig en kris. Jag upplevde aldrig att min kropp svek mig. Det kändes aldrig som att falla genom ett stort svart hål, … Fortsätt läsa

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Breast cancer as a personal experience (I)

          Ingress So kindly pestering, again and again I’m asked to stay in the care plan. I’m asked to act against my will for my own good. It’s simply disgusting. I I knocked on a door … Fortsätt läsa

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After a single mastectomy

          Maybe I could join up as an Amazon, learn to shootwith a bow and arrow in a female warrior collective. Maybe I could become a salamander to see my lostbody part grow out again. Maybe … Fortsätt läsa

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Entrance 34 Oncology Clinic (I’ve seen love)

                I’ve seen love I’ve seen love in real life in the lobby of the Oncology Clinic at the University Hospital nearby where I live, a man in his early 80s sitting by … Fortsätt läsa

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Cancer and Corona (Swedish view)

                You lose your hair getting your cancer treated you age ten years your bowels do not work your skin fails and your nails may fall off you wake up with nausea and … Fortsätt läsa

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Pandemic winter

Pandemisk vinter Ett tigande hyreshus Och långt mellan oss Pandemic winter Silent apartment building And far between us Pulsar genom snön, håller avståndet i kön försjunken i drömmar I trudge through the snow I keep my distance in the queue … Fortsätt läsa

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Out of the gloom, a New Year’s greeting for 2021

  A New Year’s greeting (written on December 30th, but never sent in full). Hi there my friend! I will break my last days silence only to send you a New Year’s greeting! But sorry to say, I’m still a … Fortsätt läsa

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Modest life (Gråväderstider)

  Gloomy moods Gloomy tiring times and every day pass by unlived Weight off sickness Pandemic Country Welfare system kneels, robbed by profit villains ”Still I will rise” Women lying ward-tied, armed with PICC lines Like heroines they endure cures … Fortsätt läsa

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Take a chance on me

Translated into English below         De hårda vindarna har lagt sig. Regnbyarna har dragit sig tillbaka. Dunkel dager, gråmulen himmel och klart kyligare. Jag står vid middagstid utanför sjukhuset och väntar på en taxi hem. Den är … Fortsätt läsa

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How does a horse want it?

This post is alternately in Swedish and English, but I hope the reading will work for you! Jag tänker fortfarande ibland på hästen Otto – vad hände med honom? Har han äntligen kommit till ro och fått ett hem och … Fortsätt läsa

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A soldier of love

  I have a lover man in my stable: what to do with a domestic who does not want to be free? I have nothing at all to offer him as my heart and body are drier than all the … Fortsätt läsa

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Captured by the cancer treatment procedure

In Swedish below                 For half a week this post has only had the headline and nothing more has been written – and that tells it all about my current experience of being … Fortsätt läsa

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Bald Beauty in Autumn

                What a beauty I have become, bald like trees in late autumn!! Winter come! Snow, cover me! What is precious about my life one sometimes asks in despair: one life that will … Fortsätt läsa

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Hidden in the shadows

  He want to stay standing in the shadows, hoping for a glimpse of her whom he cannot forget about. He’s stubborn and want to believe that his life depends on her come to turn around and get a little … Fortsätt läsa

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No poems tells about cancer (En bröstcancer tiger stilla)

In English below   En bröstcancer tiger stilla, men bieffekterna av alla mediciner mot den som man får gör det inte, de tiger inte stilla men gör dig illa. Gör dig så sjuk! Medan cancern fortfarande tiger, tiger mörkt! Men … Fortsätt läsa

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August is coming

  The summer is almost gone, August comes this weekend. It’s the last summer month in the Scandinavian landscape. It will get dark earlier now and deeper with pitch black and chilly nights while the days still will be nicely … Fortsätt läsa

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Pee in my tea (an ordinary day in the middle of the week)

            I browsed this morning through a blog written for about 3 – 4 year back in time to last year, a woman writing about getting a treatment of breast cancer. It was with long … Fortsätt läsa

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I may have cancer but at least I’m not a horse called Otto

texten omstruktured 24 juli 2020   I may have cancer but I am not born and not living in Yemen. I may have cancer and I certainly have arthritis but I’m not a horse called Otto, sold and returned, over … Fortsätt läsa

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Midsummer Dreams in the freezer

        Lonely men All these lonely men, where do they all come from? And to what will they go with all their dreams, kept strictly secret in their hearts, and at their backs and behind harsh smiles? … Fortsätt läsa

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Neither for nor against (The Swedish approach)

In English below I Jag är inte med dig, jag är inte mot dig jag är mittemellan dig och alla, intryckt nedtryckt under din höjda arm, näsan begravd i din armhåla, du stinker: byt deodorant! Eller: håll avståndet. II Sluta … Fortsätt läsa

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Lady Corona: heaven can wait, we old don’t want to die!

”I wanted to live,” said a 92 years old Louise in a report on Swedish TV news and in an interview in the Swedish tabloid Expressen. She has survived both covid-19 and intensive care and has now been discharged from … Fortsätt läsa

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Medelklassens hastiga uppvaknande (What is ”normal” and to whom?)

Read this post in English here below Jag läser om morgonen en krönika i en morgontidning om att vi aldrig ”efter detta” (pandemin!) kan gå tillbaka till det ”normala”. Det vill säga förgifta jorden. Äga förmågan att uppleva vad som … Fortsätt läsa

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