prison break. 2. metal heart.

Everyday I go to work I feel like going on a holiday 'cause I have to pass to the metal detector gate, like at the airport.

The annoying fact is that I have like 399998665 pairs of shoes and every effin one of them makes the detector beep. Every effin day! No matter what shoes I wear, no matter of the rainy/sunny weather I beep.

The strange fact is that even when I take off my shoes and my jacket I still ring sometimes.

I guess I must have an iron heart. I always supposed it was like that.
I've got 3 hearts and ones for sale.
Social distortion, we're all a social distortion.






Three hearts as one. Lion heart. Fearless heart. Never give up!

Addictology.2.'till I collapse

My first pregnant women on dope.

Tuesday 9 AM

Alo, Madalina, this is M... (the midwife) you have to go to HTP. There's a pregnant woman with a severe heroine withdrawal syndrome. 5 months. no follow up. Social status:disaster(no home, sex industry)..

Well, I'm in prison this morning so I cannot just leave like this. Then we have the ob-gyn staff. 3 consults and then I'll go.

No, you have to go now.

No, it will wait 'till 6 PM.


Tuesday 9.30 AM

Good morning, Madalina, here's L...(the psychiatrist) there's a woman at HTP. You have to go and see her ASAP.
F... you, I won't do what you tell me! As I've said, I'll be there at 6 PM, AFTER I finish my shift in prison and AFTER my consultations.

Tuesday 10.00 AM

Hello, Madalina, N.....on the line(chief nurse)
I've said 6 PM!!!
OK, could you at least give the ob-gyn some explanations on the phone.
NO, I cannot give directions without seeing the patient. What's wrong with you people!?!!!

Tuesday morning 10.30 AM

Hello Dr R this is the ob-gyn intern. May I ask you some questions??
What's the pb people, I'm working in prison, I have to see patients, how can I do this is everyone keeps calling me non stop??§!§§§
OK, do this and this and this...

Does she at least wants a substitution treatment?
Yes.
Okay I'll be there as soon as I can.

6 PM
I've met the patient.
I've went to see her every morning and evening before and after work.
12h working days.

After 4 months a healthy, beautiful, bundle of joy was burn.

Mme H respected our "deal" made in that hospital room at 7.00 PM.

I'll trust her and respect her as a patient and a human being. I'll help her find a home and have access to decent health care.
In exchange regular medical check ups, no drugs and no working on the streets. We shook hands and then I knew that we both have no returning.
No one believed in us. We've had to make it! Against all odds and misconceptions.
Because we were outcasts and we knew how much means an open heart and a smile.

She did it! She was shining with her baby in her arms.
And that day I've felt in love with my 3rd job: pregnancy and drugs!

Doamna Itu Viorica

Profesoara de limba si literatura romana, in Brasov.

Sambata, 26 Decembrie 2016, s-a stins din viata Dna Itu, in apartamentul ei din Brasov. Singura.
Pentru multi oameni este doar un nume.

Mie mi-a fost a2a mama, la egalitate cu Alina(prietena ei cea mai buna si matusa mea drag, secerata de un neoplasm acum 5 ani).

Le-am pierdut pe amandoua, in timp ce eu eram in plina lupta pentru ascensiune, departe, in tara decadentei si a modei. 

O mare parte din omul care sunt astazi le-o datorez lor. Dna Itu a fost modelul meu feminin de eleganta si de idealism. Femeia independenta, prin excelenta. Cu ea si prin ea am indragit tot ce inseamna moda. Ea m-a pregatit ani intregi pentru olimpiadele de limba romana si pentru viata. 

Am crezut,naiv, ca si in acest an o voi revedea in fata unei cesti de cafea la Bistro de l”Arte, ca in fiecare an cand veneam in Romania. Ca sa ne tesem firul povestii de unde il lasasem ultima oara. Anul acesta norocul meu si suferinta ei s-au terminat. Nu m-a mai asteptat vocea ei inconfundabila, plina de bucurie sincera la capatul firului:„Madalinaaaa, esti in Romania!„

Steaua mea s-a stins in deplina discretie pe 26 Decembrie, asa cum a si trait.

Am 3 inimi si una a murit astazi(Alina si Dna Itu au fost una). Mi-au ma ramas 2.

Dar lumea a pierdut un om stralucit(or), un model de integritate si gust cum astazi rar se mai fabrica. Si anul acesta se va termina in intuneric si in durere. 

Dna Itu, va iubesc simplu si frumos. Imi lipsiti. Si doare. 
Nu pot decat sa sper ca acum sunteti cu Alina, intr-un loc mai bun.

A dumneavostra,
Madalinuța

de Craciun 2015

Craciun fericit!

A mai trecut un an cu bucurii mai mari si mai mici. Mai mult mai mari decat mai mici as fi tentata sa zic.

Pentru mine anul se termina la Craciun. Si incepe in Martie. Pe 1 Martie. Perioada dintre este o perioada de plutire in care te gandesti, razgandesti, hotarasti si reshotarasti ce vei face anul viitor. In cazul meu unde mergi in vacanta(da,stiu, first world problems), daca iti cumperi sau nu masina si daca da de care, mutatul intr-un nou apartament(all bymyselfffff, at last!), daca schimbi locul de munca sau nu(si meanwhile, OMFG mai am si anul asta 2examene de supraspecializare), a depune sau nu cererea de cetatenie franceza si dosarul de ph.

Viata este cum ne-o facem, mereu am sustinut asta. Dar, clar, daca nu ai un dram de noroc este foarte complicat sa iti urmezi visele.

Dutuleii au venit in vacanta la Strasbourg si stau la mine de 3 saptamani. Au fost 3 saptamani de pace, bucurie, plimbari, indestulare, toate asezonate cu zambete multe si voie buna. Este bine cateodata sa ai iar 10 ani, sa-ti aduca parintii cafeaua la pat, sa faca si sa puna masa. Sa fie casa vesela si plina de oameni, constant cel putin 4. Sa mergem sa mancam la prieteni si sa fii mandra de parintii tai ca de astrele de pe cer. Sa zici:"Una este luna si unici sunt parintii mei!". Au niste social skill-uri de ma dau pe spate constant!

Prima cina a fost la un cuplu mixt de prieteni(ea frantuzoaica, el britanic, bebe oscar mixt si pisica Rita tafnoasa), totul a mers ca uns. Am ras, am mancat, am schimbat cadouri, ne-am jucat cu Oscar, am fugarit-o pe Rita(sportul meu preferat de week-end)  iar ai mei au fost ca pestii in apa. Am discutat mai ales despre mirodenii si feluri de mancare. Vinul a curs, la fel si ciocolata si fricile ascunse. Oamenii sunt buni, iar parintii mei sunt geniali!

A doua cina a fost la un cuplu de prieteni iranieni. Dupa ce si-au revenit ai mei din socul initial produs de grandoarea apartamentului si de covoarele persane(de la mama lor) s-au dezlegat limbile datorita caviarului iranian, whiskey-ului si a muzicii(greceasca, iraniana, jazz american). S-au despartit ca fratii, tata primind in cadou argintarie antica, ei fiind colectionari. No bun, oamenii sunt buni, iar parintii mei geniali.

Cina de Craciun am servit-o cu Tina(prietena mea slovena, Dr in bio-chimie, I'm so proud of her!), Fulga(colocatara) si ai mei. Alcoolul a dezlegat limbile si a deschis sufletele iar la sfarsit vorbeam toti "balcanica". Sintagma preferata,fiind:"Haide misco!!" A2a zi Tina a miscat-o spre Slovenia iar noi spre centrul Strasbourg-ului!

Am avut un orar foarte incarcat de citit beletristica, plimbat, pozat si odihnit.
Maine plecam la Brasov iar apoi eu ma intorc la Strasbourg.
Vesti bune noul an imi aduce cu formari la Paris, Nantes, Montpellier, Nancy si Strasbourg.

Asa ca va doresc si voua un an nou plin de bucurii,impliniri personale si profesionale.

La anul si la multi ani!

PS: va las cu un snob si o soparla. Iar sportul nr2, dupa fugarirea Ritei prin apartament, este alergatul diminieata dupa tramway, ca sa nu intarzi la munca.

 

my patients 1

" Choose life. Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television, Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol and dental insurance. Choose fixed- interest mortgage repayments. Choose a starter home. Choose your friends. Choose leisure wear and matching luggage. Choose a three piece suite on hire purchase in a range of fucking fabrics. Choose DIY and wondering who you are on a Sunday morning. Choose sitting on that couch watching mind-numbing sprit- crushing game shows, stuffing fucking junk food into your mouth. Choose rotting away at the end of it all, pishing you last in a miserable home, nothing more than an embarrassment to the selfish, fucked-up brats you have spawned to replace yourself. Choose your future. Choose life... But why would I want to do a thing like that?

I chose not to choose life: I chose something else. And the reasons? There are no reasons. Who need reasons when you've got heroin?"


Trainspotting. Classic.

Morphine

Sur la Morphine


"       C'est n'est pas "un état d'anxiété", c'est une morte lente qui s'empare du morphinomane pour peu qu'on le prive de sa morphine une heure ou deux.  L'air lui fait défaut, il ne peut pas l'avalere...pas une cellule de son corps qui ne soit pas en manque... de quoi?  Impossible à définir ou à expliquer.   Bref, l'homme n'est plus.  Il est déconnecté.  Ce qui se meut, ce qui s'angoisse, ce qui souffre, c'est un cadavre.  Il n'aspire et ni ne pense à rien d'autre qu'à la morphine. 
       
         La morphine!

         Mourir de soif est un mort paradisiaque, bienheureuse, comparée à la soif de morphine.  C'est ainsi, sans doute, qu'un enterré vivant s'efforce d'attraper les dérisoires dernières bulles d'air de son cercueil et se lacère la poitrine avec les ongles.  C'est ainsi qu'un hérétique gémit et se débat sur le bûcher lorsque les premières flames lui léchent les pieds... La mort, une mort à sec, à petit feu ..."

 

                    Mikhail Bulgakov, "MORPHINE"


Pentru ca Bulgakov este in topul meu 10.
Pentru ca addictia nu este o probleme de vointa.
Pentru ca addictia te face sa zbori, te ajuta sa traiesti dar te si ingroapa de viu.
Pentru ca oamenii astia sunt oameni speciali.
Pentru ca au nevoie sa fie intelesi, sprijiniti si vazuti.
Pentru ca oamenii astia sunt tot ceea ce este ascuns in noi!







Din punct de vedere muzical cred ca this deep amazing voice sounds a lot like morphine. Mark Sandman died in 1999, infarct.

Prison break 3. Death and all her friends.

We all know that this could happen.

It happened to my colleagues (nurses and doctors). They all have their graveyard. We all have it,as doctors.

But I remember precisely how it happened to me.

12.02 (I was thinking of going out eating something but still had some paper work to do). Phone rings. A nurse answers. She immediately screams in the medical unit : “We have a patient who hang himself! Fast, fast!”

12.04 We took the emergency backpack and we’ve started running on the empty hall ways. The doors from one sector to another one we’re opening so slow. We were running... The doors were slamming back after our passage. 1.2.3.4.5.6.7. doors and 2 floors.

12.10 He is in the “new comers” wing. Second floor. We split. Take the stair it will be quicker. I jump 2 stairs at a time. Second floor. Full of people. I couldn’t see their faces. I could just see the patient, lying down, not moving and the sheets hanging by the window bars.

12.15 A person was already doing the CPR. The patient was not moving, I didn’t have a pulse. He seemed ... We continue the CPR. We don’t want to loose him, we don’t want to call it, we cannot loose him, breathe God damn it. 1.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.9.10.11.12.13.14.15.16.17.18.19.20.21.22.23.24.25.26.27.28.29.30 1.2. “all hands off the patient!” again and again and again! God if you can hear me, if you are there, please, don’t let him die! At some point I think I’ve realized I cannot do anything and that he was gone.

“ ... and the hardest part was letting go, not taking part ...” (Coldplay).

12.40 The ambulance arrives. They try to intubate him. They call it off.

I don’t remember doing the way back to the medical unit. I think I’ve cried but silently as the nurse student was in shock. When I’ve arrived to the medical unit everyone knew what happened after the look of my face. I got hugs and everyone kept on saying that we did everything possible. He would have done it any how sooner or latter. Somehow, it didn’t comfort me. How could it?

It was my patient. I did everything. He died, hung, in a prison cell, alone. Young, too young, had a family.

I felt weak. I felt Small, Guilty, Inefficient. He shouldn’t have been dead.

And then I realized he was not my first and he will not be my last. Because I’m a M.D. and sometimes you can simply not save them. It’s just that the whole system is wrong. I dislike prisons and any kind of structure who uses the abuse of power. Maybe this man didn’t belong in prison. When abuse it’s the only way of justice death and all of her friends come along.

And I am tired but I won’t give in (or at least I’ll try).

“ Cause sometimes you just feel tired, 

  Feel weak, and when you feel weak, you feel like you wanna just give up.

  But you gotta search within you, you gotta find that inner strength

  And just pull that shit out of you and get that motivation to not give up

  And not be a quitter, no matter how bad you wanna just fall flat on your face and collapse.

   Till the roof comes off, till the lights go out 

   Till my legs give out, can’t shut my mouth. 

   Till the smoke clears out. 

   Am I high? Perhaps I'ma rip this s*** till my bones collapse...

...I will not fall, I will stand tall.” (Eminem)

  

 So I hope that he’s in a better place. He would have done it sooner or latter prison or not prison. I have a bitter taste though. See you at a bitter end (Placebo).

And oh I do not fancy your life “dramas” as I know that worse is and always will be possible.