Finally rain came. After two months of drought these few drops of rain and cooler temperature brought long expected relief to the tired people of Warsaw. I am sitting in my nice apartment with the windows wide open looking at the roofs of Saska Kepa and the massive outline of the symbol of the City the tower of the Palace of Culture and Science.
In spite of cooler weather today I won’t go out to my favorite place in the City, the Old Town. I decided to stay home until my audition on Thursday.
Yesterday evening I talked to Andreas on GG (Gadu-Gadu internet communicator). We talked about his health problems, which are very serious. He has been diagnosed with stromal tumor of the intestines or stomach, which is one of the most vicious cancers human being can get. I do not know what to think about it? To be frank I do not know if he is telling the truth? He told me about the pills he takes and after short research on the internet I found out that they are just for this kind of terminal affliction.
But he lied to me many times before, that I do not know if he is telling me the truth this time?
An awful feeling because I want to show my empathy for him and, knowing what it means to have terminal disease, I want to comfort him and show him that I understand. He is only 25 years old and people with this kind of dreadful disease usually die after 2 years from the day they were diagnosed. Of course there must be some exceptions. I know something about it, I am the one big exception because according to all the statistics I supposed to be dead in 1996...and I am still here and doing fairly well. I hope that new drug Gleevec or Glivec, he is taking, will slow down the progress of the tumors.
Yesterday evening he told me that the drug makes his stomach queasy and he feels like puking. I went on the internet and read about the side effects of the drug and indeed it does have such side effect on some patients who are treated with it.
Still, I do not know what to think about his story?
I wish it wasn’t true. I wish he lied to me.
I do not know what to think? I think I must believe him at the moment.
Rain started beating on the window pane making my plants very happy. I put them out the window to let them get some fresh rain water.
Oh, I wanted to write about something I saw yesterday on TV Mezzo.
I love classical ballet and yesterday I had a great pleasure watching great legend of the ballet. Great Ballerina Markova has been shown while teaching young and beautiful couple of ballet dancers from the National Opera and Ballet Theatre in Paris, France. She was teaching them, or perhaps more adequate description would be, showing them her vision of the ballet “Sylphides” to the music of great Frederic Chopin.
It was one of the most beautiful pictures I have seen in a long time. The old great ballerina in her 70-ies or even 80-ies showing all the moves to a girl and a boy who were not older than 19 or 20 years old and already most beautiful and impressive masters of the art of classical ballet listening to this old ballerina who trained and danced under the eye of the master, the ballet legend Fokin. They listened to her attentively. It seemed to me they drunk the vision of the old ballerina from her big beautiful eyes, which did not change since her days in the limelight.
