06 Feb Waiting is Never Wasted: Lessons from the ICU
Dr. Robyn Wilkerson As I sit within the stark, yet strangely comforting walls of the ICU hospital isolation unit at the University of Miami Sylvester Cancer Center Stem Cell Transplant hospital, the concept of waiting takes on a new dimension. It's a forced pause, a liminal space filled with anxiety, hope, and profound introspection. For two weeks, my husband, Richard, and I have made his hospital room our temporary abode as he undergoes chemotherapy and a Stem Cell Transplant for bone marrow cancer. Waiting has become our constant companion. Waiting for treatment to begin. Waiting for his body's reaction to the potent...