Canberra man Thomas Graham reads one of the poems he wrote in the aftermath of his stroke. His book Let's Take a Walk is being launched at The Book Cow in Kingston on Thursday evening
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00:00All right. Private spaces. I'm allocated a room, in fact a bed. Stromlo Unit, Bed 5.
00:09It's my sanctuary, my private space to sleep, eat and wash. To rest, to get to
00:19know this new person I've become. And then they move me. I keep my bed. It has
00:27wheels, but lose my room. It wasn't mine after all. Someone else needed it. I moved
00:35into shared digs, Bed 13, next to Bed 14. The space divided by a curtain. Do I dig
00:44in, or wait until I'm wheeled to another room? I'm not at home. I'm in rehab
00:52hospital. Take me home, to my own bed and room, to my bed without wheels.