Læge

Denne oplæsning er fra 2008, men teksten findes nu også i min bog 'Noahs ark' fra 2010.

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Læge

Jeg kender en læge, hvis gummihandsker brændte sig ind under huden og gjorde sig fast. Nu var det huden hun kunne tage af, så der blev dette tynde gummi tilbage, som man kunne se hver eneste blodåre og muskel igennem. Hun solgte "håndskerne", som man kaldte dem, til højestbydende og mente ikke at de fantomsmerter, hun fik i hænderne, skyldtes noget man gjorde med huden. I øvrigt havde hun mistet al følelse i dem, hænderne, så hun gjorde karriere som dyrlæge -- dyret kunne kradse hende så tosset det ville, og det lettede tydeligvis dets nervøsitet. Senere måtte hun sælge sin praksis efter ved forskellige uheld at have kvalt nogle dyr. Som hun forklarede mig, følte hun aldrig at hun havde ordentligt fat i dem.

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Doctor

I know a doctor whose rubber gloves seared their way through the skin and attached themselves to the muscle and bone. Now it was the skin she could take off, so all that was left was this thin rubber that you could see every vein and muscle through. She sold the "glonds", as they were dubbed, to the highest bidder, and didn't think that the phantom-limb pains that arose in her hands were caused by anything done to the skin. Apart from these pains, she had lost all feeling in them, the hands, so she pursued a career as a veterinarian - the animal could scratch her as much as it wanted, and this clearly calmed its nerves. But later she had to sell her practice after accidentally strangling some animals. As she explained to me, she never felt that she had a proper grasp on them.

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