Hope is terrible.
It makes those who feel it believe that everything is always possible, including at the edge of death.
Nina Bouraoui knows something about this.
In May 2022, his father entered palliative care at the Jeanne-Garnier Medical Center in Paris.
At first, she is convinced, her father will live.
Of course it's not him, this carcass lying under the sheets.
Him so strong, so resistant.
He can't die.
She convinces herself of it.
“If I stay awake, my father won’t die.”
But, deep down, she knows it.
There is the heart that resists and the reason that bows.
“The median duration of
palliative care
varies between ten and fourteen days.”
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In room 119, the sky hits the window.
There, between the white walls, Bouraoui discovers another world, with its language, where
“everyone understands each other half-heartedly”,
and its own time.
“Every minute is forever from here.”
The hours slow down, and so do the gestures.
We massage the body, we cream the skin, we shave it.
The hours fade away.
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