Wellness Beyond Words: Maya Compositions of Speech and Silence in Medical Care

Appendix D

183 Appendix D polyphonic score Appendix polyphonic score Bar 1. WS: Uh . . . well, my head hurts with sustained pain, my head hurts, and like my spirit: :WS C: :C H: What is the essence of what your stomach is doing, and your head? :H Bar 2. WS: they burn. And the nerves. Yes, they dropped to my feet and to my hands, burning like being next to fire and coming directly to my head. :WS C: :C H: Yes . . . :H Bar 3. WS:Then, it descends to my hands, constantly scratching. This is because of nerves. Then, it’s nerves, this is the constant scratching it makes. Look,:WS C: :C H: Yes. Yes, hm. :H Bar 4. WS: this, this. Scratching my stomach. What is the essence? There are times that it hums in my ear and it rings. :WS C: And I say, Juana . . . what is the essence . . . ? :C H: Yes. Hm, hm. Yes. :H Bar 5. WS: That’s right, :WS C: There are times at night . . . it hums, it hums and leaves this area as if there were now silence there. Yes :C H: Yes. Yes, hm. Yes, is that what she hears? :H Bar 6. WS: only a fever, only nerves do this, I say. Yes. Yes. :WS C: :C H: That’s it, it’s the nerves that do that . . . such is the case, only then it’s the strength / force that is :H 184 appendix d Bar 19. WS: any. It’s true, because the child arrived here in the world deformed. The, the :WS C: three months. For twenty days with the child she didn’t sleep or twenty-five days she slept not. :C H: :H Bar 20. WS: reason is because I drank medicine, is that true? That’s right, I drunk it. Uh, the, the, the, the, the, the, the, the little boy :WS C: :C H: Yes, hm . . . You drank medicine? Oh . . . :H Bar 21. WS: of mine, wasn’t well. Yes. For that reason, just like this, only a small part in front of the face :WS C: :C H: Oh . . . What was the essence of your little boy’s illness? :H Bar 22. WS: more tiny. Now, it was divided /separated here It pulls, but you pull . . . There was not:WS C: Everything around here, here, a lot was done here. :C H: Yes . . . Yes . . . :H Bar 23. WS: sleep for me. Various times, I took them to San Pedro. It’s good if the, the . . . the, the, the problem breaks, it’s said that oil heals it, they told me it:WS C: :C H: :H Bar 24. WS: heals. But not for anything. I’ve seen that it didn’t heal. In times when I was given to carrying the small child. He didn’t feel right :WS C: :C H: It didn’t heal. Yes. :H appendix d 185 Bar 13. WS: I just lose my knowledge in the world, not just where I am. I feel the world is lost to me be but not just my thoughts. I feel my head is lost. It:WS C: :C H: :H Bar 14. WS: just makes me forget. In what way, then, does just the ringing cause damage, what then about the ringing? :WS C: :C H: Yes, hm . . . Only . . . so it is only the thought that :H Bar 15. WS: It’s for that reason? :WS C: :C H: does this to you . . . You think too much. Then, if you don’t sleep the thoughts gather, and all of them together take away strength :H Bar 16. WS: Oh, it causes hurt when there is no sleep? :WS C: :C H: until there is none. Then, yes, they have caused you hurt. It causes it because the, the sleep is medicine. :H Bar 17. WS: It’s true because it did this, because it’s like when my small son was not yet dead. Like I had a son, he was a twin, he arrived in the world :WS C: :C H: Yes, hm .:H Bar 18. WS: uh . . . if it were not for this, the, the, the not sleeping for four months would not have been. All at once, I just couldn’t get my sleep. Just not:WS C: Like nearly:C H: Oh . . . :H 186 appendix d Bar 31. WS: That’s right, for this reason because...