Linda E. Clarke
Linda E. Clarke is a writer.
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An excerpt from In Two Voices: A Patient and a Neurosurgeon Tell Their Story. Linda, the patient, writes: Years later a compassionate optometrist acknowledges my eye pain and frequent headaches. I try different lenses, various prescriptions. When they don’t work,…
An excerpt from In Two Voices: A Patient and a Neurosurgeon Tell Their Story.
Linda, the patient, writes:
Years later a compassionate optometrist acknowledges my eye pain and frequent headaches. I try different lenses, various prescriptions. When they don’t work, he arranges for me to see one of his mentors at the School of Optometry at the University of Waterloo. It’s a long drive but James and I are both …
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A patient and a neurosurgeon tell their story
Patient voices
Once upon a long 18 years ago, I got sick. I was sick from a growth in my brain. The growth was found after I'd shuttled from doctor to doctor, from appointment to appointment, from X-ray to scan. It took…
Once upon a long 18 years ago, I got sick.
I was sick from a growth in my brain.
The growth was found after I’d shuttled from doctor to doctor, from appointment to appointment, from X-ray to scan. It took a year. By then, my pain was clothed in shame. Undiagnosed pain does that: It draws the gaze of friends, family and providers. Everyone looks for the cause.
“Soul pain,” said one doctor. …
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A hospital, a stranger, and a bottle of beer
Patient voices
From your perch in the coffee shop you watch a woman exit the big grey church across the street from the hospital. She’s young, probably not even 40, but she’s dressed like an elderly woman. She’s wearing a shapeless blue…
From your perch in the coffee shop you watch a woman exit the big grey church across the street from the hospital. She’s young, probably not even 40, but she’s dressed like an elderly woman. She’s wearing a shapeless blue raincoat, heavy stockings and wide, steady shoes. Her rosary is looped around her fingers. Across from the church door there is a statue of the Virgin Mary against the fence. …
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