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\u041f\u0440\u043e\u0431\u043e\u0432\u0430\u043b\u0430 \u0448\u0443\u0442\u0438\u0442\u044c \u0433\u043b\u0443\u043f\u044b\u0435 \u0448\u0443\u0442\u043a\u0438, \u043d\u043e \u043e\u043d\u0438 \u043d\u0435\u0443\u043c\u0435\u0441\u0442\u043d\u043e \u0437\u0430\u0441\u0442\u0440\u0435\u0432\u0430\u043b\u0438 \u043c\u0435\u0436\u0434\u0443 \u0437\u0443\u0431\u0430\u043c\u0438.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Here, I brought this special gown with me. Ha-ha\u2026 I look like a ghost\u2026 Ha-ha. Do you have many ghosts in here? Like\u2026 eh\u2026 unsettled souls?\u2019 &#8211; I tried to sound confident with stupid jokes. But this one applied at Intensive care was the dumbest I\u2019ve ever made.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>The nurse looked at me like I was stupid and frowned, like: yeah, we\u2019ve seen worse&#8230; now what?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2014it\u2019s so ridiculous, I say awkwardly\u2014how do you even put this transparent blue medical robe on? Do I wear it like a regular gown, or crawl into it like a spacesuit?&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When I was doing my own column in GEO magazine, I went to sort of a secret base on the outskirts of Moscow to write an article on a new spacesuit with a light\u2011proof visor called Orlan\u2011MK. I climbed into the suit via a ladder, sliding inside feet\u2011first. I was pregnant with Denis, though back then it wasn\u2019t so obvious. I didn\u2019t spend much time inside the suit\u2014I was too worried it would be uncomfortable for him inside me. Well, I always tell Denis: you\u2019ve been in a spacesuit!.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Not many can say they\u2019ve been inside a real spacesuit. Even less often do you get to pair it with the ambiance of an ICU. Michelin-star medical experience.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The nurse snorted and sneered:<br>&#8220;Oh, and you know what it&#8217;s like in a spacesuit, do you?&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For some reason I said no&#8230;how would I know?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She tied all the strings on me tight, as if I were the plainest princess being primped for suitors, the corset tightened for maximum effect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She pointed to Dad\u2019s ward and nudged the door open with her elbow.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>***<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I hadn\u2019t seen Dad in a month&#8230; just a month. I managed to fly to Canada, get my bearings in Anthony\u2019s arms, start working, in some confusion dye my hair red, and now come back to Dad. I hid my red hair under the cap so I wouldn\u2019t have to explain why that impulsive moment happened. I didn\u2019t want to disturb him more than necessary.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dad had changed beyond recognition. Lying in front of me was a completely different human\u2014different size, color, odor.<br>He couldn\u2019t stand&#8230; he couldn\u2019t even lie on his own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At first he seemed like he was just asleep or deeply relaxed. Like he is just getting some kind of treatment \u2014 a private room, his own team from a Balinese spa. Except he\u2019s lying under a thin hospital blanket, and this is nothing like a resort in Indonesia.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Like he\u2019d booked the \u201cnear-death experience\u201d package or taken some experimental wellness detox. And I almost see a beautiful tanned lady whispering &#8220;<\/strong><strong><em>Om Swastiastu<\/em><\/strong><strong>&#8221; &#8211; a traditional Balinese greeting that translates to &#8220;May God bless you\u201d&#8230; while adjusting the IV drip.&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Stay in the fantasy, just take yourself out of this place and&nbsp; don\u2019t look at the tubes.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Too many of them. Two fine tubes going into his nostrils up to a machine that hissed rhythmically behind the headboard. Another one\u2014into his hand, carefully taped, as if the doctors feared it might slip out of the vein, now glaringly visible under the skin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I stepped closer and saw his hands. They lay on top of the blanket, fingers slightly bent, as if trying to hold onto something. But there was almost no muscle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I wanted to scream that it\u2019s all untrue, not real, that it\u2019s not my dad. I would still love this version, But where is the one I am used to? My dad is different!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To hide panic and tears rising, I calmly put on rubber gloves and, as if nothing\u2019s wrong, shouted at the doctor updating the sensors in the chart:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Sooo\u2026 how are you doing without me here? Treating him well?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The doctor looked up, prepared to put me in my place with one phrase like he did with nagging relatives\u2014but then looked harder and thought better of it. Well, he could\u2019ve answered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mom apologized and said it was my first time in ICU and I didn\u2019t yet know the rules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>What rules? &#8211; I asked melodiously to hide my shaking voice. The doctor replied as if in a \u2018Fight Club\u201d:<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>First rule: don\u2019t talk to the resuscitation team!<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>And if I need to ask something? Like\u2026 really important? &#8211; I asked, frightened.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>We return to rule one: don\u2019t talk, don\u2019t ask. &#8211; He fiddled with tubes, connected, disconnected\u2014either faking activity or really doing something vital.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I asked Mom which side to approach from. The doctor answered himself, I stood under the monitor. I wanted to ask if I could hold Dad\u2019s hand, but dared not\u2014so I just said:<br>&#8211;&nbsp; I\u2019m taking Dad\u2019s hand!!! Just letting you know.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Go ahead&#8230; take it. If you want to say something, lean closer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Does he not hear well? Or why so&#8230;? I thought, but didn\u2019t ask why.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Because you&#8217;re wearing a mask. I can\u2019t even hear what you&#8217;re saying, &#8211; the doctor understood what I was thinking.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>So you don\u2019t hear because I\u2019m silent. Because you said not to talk!\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The doctor gives me a look. Mom apologizes again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>This is your other daughter, not that one, a doctor, but the one from Canada? &#8211; Ouch! That was quite a comparison!\u00a0<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>As if exchanging Russia to Canada makes me kind of \u2018expired\u2019 or \u2018damaged\u2019.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; That daughter who&#8230; &#8211; the doctor asks and pauses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Yes, that\u2019s her, &#8211; Mom answers.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>The doctor somehow laughs and says:<br>&#8211;&nbsp; Ah&#8230; then it makes sense.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don\u2019t know what makes sense to him or what he and Mom spoke about. But I feel like they\u2019ve talked a lot behind my back. Probably discussed my user manual. Or at least the warning label. I can imagine how that sounded from my mom.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Go talk with dad. Tell him something. I\u2019ve been talking for days with him.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I hold Dad\u2019s hand. How much weight he\u2019s lost! Can a person really change so much in just a month? I don\u2019t know what to say to him. What should we talk about? I cannot fake that I don\u2019t see an elephant in the room. I can\u2019t get used to his new look\u2014I can\u2019t think of anything else. I share what\u2019s on the surface: how I flew in\u2014I just got off the plane. Everything is happening so fast it doesn\u2019t feel real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Dad begins to say something. Hard for him, but he tries so much. He looks strange, but those brown eyes are the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I notice a blurred bruise on his hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>&#8211;&nbsp; Who sat on you so carelessly? &#8211; I ask to continue joking.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211;&nbsp; Low white cells, he explains. Even a small injection leaves a bruise that big.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8211; Scheherazade\u2026-&nbsp; dad says suddenly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What? I don\u2019t understand.<br>&#8211; You in that blue gown look like Scheherazade. &#8211; He explains.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Scheherazade. The legendary storyteller of <\/strong><strong><em>One Thousand and One Nights<\/em><\/strong><strong>, who tells tales each night to delay her execution by a king who kills all his brides at dawn &#8211; just because he\u2019s bored. Her wit and courage, and storytelling skills save her life and transform the king.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I laugh\u2014so sweet it is to hear that. Dad always saw me as a great storyteller.<br>In school, for the New Year\u2019s party I was Scheherazade. Other kids made up predictable, easy winter characters. Dad was reading me <em>One Thousand and One Nights<\/em>. Those stories stayed with me. What struck me most wasn\u2019t the magic carpets or djinns, but the essence: a woman told a new tale each night, stopping at the most suspenseful moment\u2014to save herself, to not being killed so that the king would hear the ending. She held a powerful man\u2019s attention, who could\u2019ve ended her life, but instead she had him hooked, eagerly awaiting another night, another story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Men\u2026 they are interesting. We think they\u2019re driven by basic instincts, that those instincts matter most. But it turns out an ordinary fairy tale can bind them to a woman far more than physical desire ever would.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mom sewed me a glittering blue costume. At the New Year&#8217;s party I acted out a scene from one of those thousand stories and felt that the costume suited me\u2014my nature shone through it. I didn\u2019t want to take it off. I stayed in the image for days, sitting under the Christmas tree, weaving more characters into the tales, imagining new plots and stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But in none of those invented stories did Scheherazade return to her childhood home to save her father&#8230; the person who recognized magic and storytelling. How I wish it were as simple in the fairytales.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A clever, witty character or a twist of fate\u2014that\u2019s enough to conquer death.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>In imagined stories, death is something you can negotiate with. Try to get in touch with death in real life and you\u2019ll be on hold listening to elevator music for eternity.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I remember the tale where Sinbad the Sailor meets Azrael, the angel of death, and outwits him. During his voyage, Sinbad landed on a strange island inhabited by one frail old man who begged to be carried across a stream. The old man climbed onto Sinbad\u2019s shoulders, but then strangled him with his legs and began beating him. Try as Sinbad might, he couldn\u2019t shake the old man off\u2014his life became tortured slavery. Day after day, the old man wore down Sinbad as he had others. But Sinbad tricked him. He pretended to be obedient and followed orders. One day the old man relaxed, and Sinbad managed to get him drunk. The old man loosened his grasp and Sinbad knocked him down, cracking his skull. A parable of relentless fate: you can postpone death with deceit, but you can never truly defeat it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Scheherazade&#8230; dad repeats and smiles. We\u2019re all masked except him \u2014he\u2019s the only one whose smile is visible.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>I take his hand. Now it\u2019s my turn to tell Dad stories. Not for a miracle, just to tell, so he feels I\u2019m here, so he isn\u2019t scared. So he knows: I\u2019m near, his little girl in the blue gown with silver threads, who remembers all his stories\u2014and now she\u2019ll tell her own.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>How can I extend your life for at least one more story?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>After that I don\u2019t remember what happened. Only feelings. Something the doctor said, something Mom&#8230; She asked me to speak louder\u2014but I was so stunned no words came. It\u2019s Dad who always speaks. Or I begin and he continues, always more knowledgeable in any topic I brought up. And then I get this chance to be the only storyteller simply because Dad can\u2019t talk much, and I\u2019m lost.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I tell him some insignificant things &#8211; about the difficulties arriving in Moscow\u2014how my sister met me in a snowstorm. Mom texted Friday, I took the first flight to you&#8230; Packed quickly. This time one suitcase, and it\u2019s half empty. Anthony helped pack. I threw things on the bed, and he neatly folded them.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He knows how&#8230; Dad smiles something like a smirk. He knows\u2014Anthony\u2019s OCD and \u201cneatly folded things\u201d is more than care; it\u2019s a need.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>At least someone can reunite lost socks in pairs! Dad says slowly. 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