Putting your life on the page with Ann Patchett, Cathy Rentzenbrink, Julia Samuel and Arifa Akbar
Woman's Hour
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Is This Some New, Terrible, Unnamed Illness?
On the day we were told she had a fatal brain hemorrhage, she was kept on a life support for 24 hours. She was essentially dead stroke, dying. And i thought, is this some new illness, on the fringes, on the frontiers of some new, terrible, unnamed illness? The following day, we came in, she was in a separate room. Shehad been isolated. Remember, this is 20, 16 week, you know, isolation and all the rest is not, is not a thing then. You know, hemorrhage came as a result of tuberculosis. Imagined that an illness, an ancient illness, and ancient infectious disease, a that is curable
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