Station 42 – OPE
E-Mail to my friends. Performance of an operation – July 2007, Munich
19. Juli 2007 13:45, Dear friends,
now, and once again, I know that I cannot live without art. Leben ohne Kunst? Neither without you.
Before undergoing the operation I was afraid of a trip "to limbo", but then I thought: I will go to limbo (as a Cuban) without a letter of invitation. That gave me a lot of peace to face the operation. I would not have stress then. I wrote a note in my diary for Javi and Dayi, but it was a note for my coming back.
One of the six days I spent in the hospital I asked Javi where I was, for Station 42 seemed to me a familiar place. Everybody there seemed to be part of my family.
The last day I felt happiness in Station 42, more than just my own happiness, that which I spread everybody. I inserted the white flowers that Javi brought me into the surgical collar, and I wore it till the evening all around the city. That way I said goodbye to Station 42, where everybody smiled at me every time. You can see in this picture all the nice people that took care of me.
The pain is gone! Disappeared! A deep pain that didn't leave me alone since October 2006. The operation lasted 6 hours and now I have a passport to travel with my metallic disks, which even have a serial number, and which I have to show at the airports! They will forget then where do I come from and where I am going to! I will recover my voice, for I am still kind of hoarse, as if I've gotten the biggest hangover of the Oktoberfest!
Besos, Thanks for being there! To Dayi, Sofi, Marti, and to Javi, all my love! Elvi
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