Meyer and Alden attended a medical conference in Chicago during the very beginning of spring. The hospital was interested in some studies on childhood spinal problems and mildly invasive interventions that were being discussed at the neurologists meeting. During the second day lunch break, Dr. Anne Hamilton, the daughter of a famous local physician and […]

That night the game was more about Memphis than Houston: 99-78 final score. The season’s corps of dancers excitedly cheered for their fierce brown bear. After the game is over, they celebrate with a few fans allowed to enter the basketball team’s reserved area. The coaching staff hugged the players. When then one of the […]

After seven years working at the hospital, Alden was invited to celebrate his record of completing three hundred surgeries at the institution. After congratulating him, Dr. Jansen suggested that they have a happy hour at a well-known Mexican restaurant on a Friday. The restaurant offered live Mexican music, and several colleagues were present, including Esther […]

In the night nursing program, Samantha had met a classmate from Arlington, Texas. Hanna, as her name was, had coincidentally auditioned in 2001 trying to be a Grizz Girl, when first it was based in Memphis. However, she hadn’t gotten the job, as Samantha had, simply because she needed some extra cash, even with the […]

Dr. Daniel Meyer had been married to Dr. Esther Portman for 35 years. The couple went through a long-lasting family tragedy twenty years ago. Their only son, still a teenager, who was born with a neurological disease that progressed, died. Nowadays, he would be the same age as Dr. Alden. The teenager was a very […]

The festive season of the end of the year was approaching. Alden asked to be put on duty between Christmas Eve (Friday) and Christmas morning, to deal with any emergencies, as well as to support the children hospitalized with the medical team, as well as to say a few words to the parents who wanted […]

Dr. Alden was in New York for a two-day workshop with neurosurgeons that would take place in South Manhattan, on Wednesday; the venue was an auditorium at the World Trade Center. However, he had been given permission by the hospital, where he works in Los Angeles, to travel to NYC the previous Sunday. He planned […]

It was 1994 when Dr. Joseph Alden, after arriving in LA, began working as a neurological surgeon for children, a topic he developed deeply during his doctorate in London. He also looked for a place to live, choosing, among the options, Santa Monica, because it was close to the beach, a landscape he really liked. […]

What we misunderstand as ‘time’ had run out momentarily for Alden, what made him without such human psychological reference. Alden was dead. Alden, without feeling any passage of time, although could not view himself as a human-kind body, had the sensation of being dressed and felt strong, as if he were a young man in […]

A novela (romance) de cunho inspiracional possuiu o título original “What I should have done“. Para evitar alguma espécie de constrangimento sobre os pensamentos do autor, cristalinamente expressos em parágrafos e capítulos, foi tardiamente alterado para “Listen to my last wish“, o que deixa o título original preterido nas entrelinhas e escamoteado em um capítulo […]

“… sicut elegit nos in ipso ante mundi constitutionem, ut essemus sancti et immaculati in conspectu eius in caritate” (EPHESIOS  1, 4) “Often, apostasy is the result of a bad marriage… Excluding oneself from the flow of divine grace, the Catholic’s faith withers and dies, and at the end of the process the person finds oneself […]