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Sport 36: Winter 2008

Day 26

Day 26

This is now called 'Tricia's room'.
Everyone here is stiff
everyone here is scared
except the ones that are dressed
and bustle like nurses
and even they are scared
of becoming patients.

Vera has left. Louise comes in and has another go with the laptop. There are too many emails and it won't download. I don't mind. We've tried and that's enough.

I don't use my phone much—it's always being moved out of the way for some procedure or other. But my sister has worked out a system that suits both of us. When she gets time she phones my home telephone and leaves messages—long messages about the latest page 105two-year-old or three-year-old happenings, or sometimes a personal concert from the five-year-old singing 'Twinkle twinkle little star'. I clear the messages in the quiet moments and it becomes one of the day's treats.

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