Public Address | Cafe | Up Front: I Walk the Line

Tim Michie

Thu, 19 Feb 2015 13:03:00 +1300

Con the grats for the end of the sessions Emma. Here's to allowing thoughts to wander from suchlike... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBNJ0BH3Dgs h/t io9

Cecelia

Mon, 09 Feb 2015 16:54:00 +1300

I'm glad it worked so well for your daughter, Hilary. When my mask was being made I saw the mobiles for children overhead. The technician said they tried to make it fun for the kids.

Cecelia

Mon, 09 Feb 2015 16:49:35 +1300

Great to see that.

Hilary Stace

Mon, 09 Feb 2015 15:11:05 +1300

I've mentioned before that my daughter had similar treatment about 25 years ago when she was little. The mask then was not as flash as these mesh ones but otherwise not much seems to have changed. The staff being nice made a difference then as now. But most importantly whatever…

Russell Brown

Mon, 09 Feb 2015 14:17:07 +1300

I always felt like my partner’s face was so beautiful every time she took off that mask.

I had to get written permission to film in one of the radiation rooms at Auckland Hospital, I haven’t got any of that video broken out, but there’s some footage starting around 4:34…

Emma Hart

Mon, 09 Feb 2015 11:19:39 +1300

I always felt like my partner’s face was so beautiful every time she took off that mask.

Ha, they swear to me I don't look like that afterwards! liars.

Also that video made my eyes leak. Thank you.

Morgan Nichol

Mon, 09 Feb 2015 10:33:49 +1300

Our line had a different colour.

Morgan Nichol

Mon, 09 Feb 2015 10:19:23 +1300

I always felt like my partner’s face was so beautiful every time she took off that mask.

I had to get written permission to film in one of the radiation rooms at Auckland Hospital, I haven’t got any of that video broken out, but there’s some footage starting around 4:34…

Cushla McKinney

Sun, 08 Feb 2015 13:02:15 +1300

I am so sorry for what you are going through. I've never (thankfully) had to undergo chemo or radiotherapy, but I HAVE undergone treatment that felt even worse than the illness it was intended to treat. Never let go hope, and do whatever you need to do to get through.…

TracyMac

Sat, 07 Feb 2015 00:55:48 +1300

Damn it, I missed your original post. Warm thoughts your way, and the hope that the shithouse days are seriously limited.

Cecelia

Thu, 05 Feb 2015 19:04:16 +1300

Emma, your radiation department sounds almost identical to Auckland's although we didn't have daffs on our corridor line. That's a nice touch.

I had the mask and the meds: used to take a dose of Oxynorm before going in and Ondansetron on coming out. With a tongue depressor in my…

Brent Jackson

Thu, 05 Feb 2015 14:36:18 +1300

Thank you so much for sharing this, especially so elegantly and wittily prosed.

“My standard reply to “How are you?” is now “Hi.” It makes no difference.

I can relate to this. In the early 1990's the sales team at my work all went to a training session, and came…

JacksonP

Wed, 04 Feb 2015 17:54:46 +1300

You continue to amaze in so many ways.
My sentiments are apparently being passed on to the team.
This is so cool.

I've always enjoyed using twitter as a virtual couch for the cricket. Recently on the days you're understandably a bit quiet, I think 'fuck I hope Emma's Ok…

Emma Hart

Wed, 04 Feb 2015 16:38:53 +1300

Thanks, guys. Yous are all fabulous. I was looking at writing on this (and for a video a guy had made with a gopro attached to his treatment machine) and nothing felt right. There was this weird sense of compulsory optimism. It was kind of like parenting: you either talk…

Paul Brislen

Wed, 04 Feb 2015 16:32:59 +1300

More power to you, Emma. I couldn't talk about it when I was doing it, let alone write about it for strangers.

Kia kaha.

Lilith __

Wed, 04 Feb 2015 16:27:16 +1300

Emma, you’re a champion. Not just for enduring all this, but also for being able to write about it with your characteristic wit and flair. Holy shit.

PS Anyone who isn’t already, you should all read Emma’s ripping, sexy novel The Isis Knot, and flick her a koha.

Sofie Bribiesca

Wed, 04 Feb 2015 14:26:21 +1300

a yellow line with daffodils on it.

and a rainbow where the sun will shine. kia Kaha. x

Bart Janssen

Wed, 04 Feb 2015 13:30:56 +1300

cheerfully offering people cups of really vile coffee

Heh that's so you feel better about the other truly shit stuff going on right?

Thank you to the Black Caps for cheering me up no end through my treatment. I have been assured by many people that they’re only doing it…

Tim Michie

Wed, 04 Feb 2015 12:53:37 +1300

Thanks for going into more detail here what you're going through Emma. Offerings empathy sounds shallow but I've certainly been thinking of you and even the cricket has lead to thoughts like "Oh! I hope Emma enjoyed that!"

Russell Brown

Wed, 04 Feb 2015 12:31:21 +1300

Thank you, Emma. Not just for the update and a chance to read your pleasurable prose again, but for making real an experience that most people don't have the skills or the venue to talk about. xx

Public Address

Wed, 04 Feb 2015 12:31:20 +1300

Discussion from blog post.