Pedro Chagas Fretas – a year after his son’s vision is fighting for life, reflects: “Never stop being present.”
“Before (May 28), Benjamin was transferred to the hospital. His childhood was cut off by warnings, tubes and words that whispered in the cold corridors. My whole life shrunk to suit the hospital bed, and a screen with a shaking numbers,” began with a reference to the sub -translation of an old photographic photography from this hospital. “He started explaining.
“Hell is not the other. Hell is to see your son without strength to smile. It is to measure hope in the millter. He learns the difference between 95 and 94 to measure oxidation. He sees that your son tries to laugh but has no strength in the muscles to do so. Expert in exams that you never wanted to know that the table of joy values, the pain scale, the thickness of the castles.He explained.
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“The word” transplant “came when the fire comes. Preparations came: licenses, exams, decisions that no one should make with a sore throat and another in the stomach. Then: Wait.continued.
“Joy-when he reached the smell of sweat, exhausted, he was injured. We cried with shame and gratitude. The transplantation of organs is not celebrated as victory is celebrated. It is celebrated as if he was supporting a miracle miracle, with deception, silence.”He added.
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“Today, normal is the most confidential forms of grace. Keep my energy better. I know how much it is. Don’t waste it in shit. If you want to think very much in me, think worse. In front of me is my son. Above all is my son.Also confirmed.
“We do not go out without ever left. We never leave. The pain is fixed, but it is accused of dearly. Life is now weighing more. Whoever floats without looking down at the bottom never knows the depth. Benjamin lives. I have been released from living with him. Not in orgasm; in astonishment. I am not always happy. But I never stopped gratitude.”I finish.
