Bringing Color to Cancer
Several years ago I was part of a clinical trail at a renowned cancer center. The clinical trails were located on a top floor, far away from the colorful lobby and the lively movement of people.No plants, no flowers, no photos or art work. I sat in a waiting room looking at gray walls, all the chairs were backed up against these walls, no tables, no magazines, no water. When I walked down the hall to this room I could see into the colorless hospital rooms where people, in their beds, were usually wired up, tubed up, flat on their backs. Occasionally there would be a visitor … in one of the rooms was a teenage girl whose mother was always there …
I saw a lovely nurse every day for several weeks and when I asked her where we were, she replied, “This is the clinical trail floor for people who have run out of options.” Even though what I was there for, chemotherapy induced peripheral neuropathy, wasn’t cured … I still had the option to walk out of that depressing unit and back out into the the fresh air. People on this floor couldn’t even open a window.
I’ve been in various hospitals, treatment rooms and clinics where people go for cancer treatment. Let’s face it, none of us really wants to go there but since some of us have to, why not brighten it up a bit …
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