Item

Hospital Sensory Experience

Title (Dublin Core)

Hospital Sensory Experience

Description (Dublin Core)

This experience of the Covid-19 pandemic is probably very different than most people. My picture submitted of myself shows a selfie that I took while in the hospital dealing with a non-Covid-19 hospitalization. As you will see through reading this I was on sensory overload. My experience with taste when it comes to my hospitalization was not one of joy, but one of provisional change due to introduction of various new medical regiments which made things tasting like metal along with various other side effects. The over powering aroma of alcohol wipes and various chemicals burned my nostrils causing my eyes to water with irritation and redness. Desiring the touch of a loved ones other then the nurses pin pricks and the doctors jabs however, due to Covid restrictions my only comfort was my husband. With the on going treatments of chemotherapy I had caused numbness in my toes and fingers which felt like knives. I am a 35 year old man who is diagnosed with stage Three-B Testicular Cancer who was healthy one minute and who's world was turned upside down the next moment. So, my Covid-19 experience has been that of Chemotherapy, isolationism, crying, hospital smells, changing of all of my sensory parts of my body, and more. This is important to me because it has changed my life, Covid-19 experience, work-life, and many other areas.
It is a photograph that was taken by me in the hospital.

Date (Dublin Core)

February 6, 2020

Creator (Dublin Core)

Brad Baker-Nicholas

Contributor (Dublin Core)

Brad Baker-Nicholas

Event Identifier (Dublin Core)

HST643

Partner (Dublin Core)

Arizona State University

Type (Dublin Core)

photograph

Link (Bibliographic Ontology)

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=864416127695&set=p.864416127695&type=3&theater

Controlled Vocabulary (Dublin Core)

English Public Health & Hospitals
English Emotion

Curator's Tags (Omeka Classic)

hospitalization
cancer
aroma
smell
taste
isolation
chemotherapy
sensory history
touch

Contributor's Tags (a true folksonomy) (Friend of a Friend)

COVID-19
cancer
cancer sucks
sensory overload
overcomer
survivor
teacher life

Collection (Dublin Core)

en Survivor Stories

Linked Data (Dublin Core)

Sensory history contribution to COVID-19 Archive

Date Submitted (Dublin Core)

10/2/20

Date Modified (Dublin Core)

10/12/2020
2/3/21

Item sets

Covid 19
Arizona State University

This item was submitted on October 12, 2020 by Brad Baker-Nicholas using the form “Share Your Story” on the site “A Journal of the Plague Year”: https://www.covid-19archive.org/s/archive

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