Early in the pandemic, medical personnel were our front lines. What was that like? Through stories, art, and poetry, Canadian health-care workers from across the country recount their experiences of the COVID-19 pandemic. The contributors to The COVID Journals share the determination and fear they felt as they watched the crisis unfold, giving us an inside view of their lives at a time when care itself was redefined from moment to moment. Their narratives, at turns tender, angry, curious, and sometimes even joyful, highlight challenges and satisfactions that people will continue to explore and make sense of for years to come.
Contributors: Ewan Affleck, Sarah-Taïssir Bencharif, Manisha Bharadia, Christopher Blake, Candace de Taeye, Arundhati Dhara, Paul Dhillon, Liam Durcan, Monika Dutt, Sarah Fraser, David Gratzer, Jillian Horton, Andrew Howe, Monica Kidd, Jaime Lenet, Pam Lenkov, Suzanne Lilker, Jennifer Moore, Shane Neilson, Kacper Niburski, Elizabeth Niedra, Margaret Nowaczyk, Tolu Oloruntoba, Rory O’Sullivan, Jordan Pelc, Nick Pimlott, Angela E. Simmonds, Tanas Sylliboy, Helen Tang, Bobby Taylor, Tharshika Thangarasa, Diana Toubassi, Shan Wang, Marisa Webster, Chadwick Williams, Dolly Williams, Jiameng Xu.
Authors
- Pages
- 224
- Published in
- Edmonton, CA
Table of Contents
- Front cover 1
- Title page 6
- Copyright page 7
- Contents 8
- Preface 12
- Fight or Flight / Neilson 18
- Uncertainty / Dhillon 35
- The Sum of All Fears / Oloruntoba 39
- A Journal of the Plague Year 2020 / Pimlott 43
- What I Will Not Doff / Toubassi 59
- Workday / Thangarasa 64
- A Mask / Kidd 67
- Facing the Unknown / Wang 69
- On Pandemic and Uselessness | Lenet 78
- Pandemic / Pelc 84
- Prescription for Water / Xu 85
- Palliative Care / Thangarasa 87
- My So-Called COVID Life / Moore 88
- Pulling Strings / Dutt 96
- Disembodied / Durcan 102
- Same But Different / Gratzer 110
- I’m No Hero / Lilker 114
- Sidelined / Tang 117
- Behind the Front Line / O’Sullivan 118
- Singularity / Tang 125
- With Beauty / Niburski 126
- Management Was Mad / Fraser 131
- Preoccupations of a Public Health Resident / Webster 133
- Bongo Guy in Lockdown / Blake 136
- Mango Season / Dhara 142
- Solidarity / Tang 149
- I Am Letting Myself Go / Niedra 150
- Life and Death in Denendeh / Affleck 153
- Jipasi na’sɨk melkitai / Sylliboy 161
- In the ER, Patients Need My Comfort But I Am Scared to Give It / Bencharif 162
- Vicissitude / Lenkov 166
- Connection / Tang 169
- What Was Missing / Nowaczyk 170
- A Family History in 2 Pandemics,4 Infections, and 102 Years / Horton 179
- Endurance / Bharadia 182
- Blowing Smoke in Your Ear / How, Simmonds, Taylor, Williams; with Dhara and Willams 184
- It’s Hard Not to Slam a Fist on the Table When the Finish Line Keeps Lurching Further Ahead, or Third Wave / de Taeye 202
- An Unconventional Conclusion / Dhara and Fraser 208
- Acknowledgements 214
- Contributors 216
- Other Titles from University of Alberta Press 225