Life on the coma ward

20Dec11

I spent many hours of my life in the waiting area of a coma ward. Even though visiting hours were supposed to start at 4pm, they often got delayed. Some medical crisis, patient needing to be cleaned, new admission meant the lone little group of visitors were forced to stare at the blank walls or [...]

Filed under: Coma, Germany, Mother   |  Closed
Tags: coma, Germany, Glasgow Coma Scale, Glasgow Coma Score, intensive care, mortality, vigil

The dead in your backyard

07Dec11

I grew up in a very pretty village in one of the more picturesque parts of (then) rural Germany. It did have a small factory, but the overall vibe was agricultural. The farmer a couple of streets down would sell you a liter of fresh raw milk for one Mark, and our house was surrounded [...]

Filed under: Childhood, Germany, History, Third Reich, World War II   |  Closed
Tags: Baader Meinhof, cemetery, childhood, concentration camp, forced labor, Germany, Harald Isermeyer, Hitlers Hinterhof, hometown, mortality, Nike missile base, Rote Armee Fraktion, Third Reich