To Leeds this afternoon to visit someone who was looking remarkably well given that they had just come out of surgery. They were in a new wing of St James’ hospital which is dedicated to the treatment of Cancer. It was an amazing building and quite different from how we all picture hospitals.
For a start off there was a museum in the entrance way to the building and a lot of art. There were shops and a balcony café. You could have been anywhere except for the odd person walking about in their pyjamas or pushing one of those trolleys that have a drip bag hung from them.
I had a coffee on the balcony and pondered whether this new building had been built in denial of the fact that although a lot of healing went on in this place a lot of dying did too.
Maybe we have grown up enough to acknowledge that as Forest Gump once wisely said death is part of life and that although we wish it wasn’t, it is.
They serve nice coffee.
Despite this, I hope and pray my friend is home soon and that I don't have to go there again for a while.
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