ニューヨーク・タイムズのインスタグラム(nytimes) - 7月1日 00時32分

Gabriela S. Ortiz sterilized her instruments and went up to the 4th-floor cancer unit, where a patient was waiting. The instruments were a piano keyboard, a guitar, a xylophone and a drum. Gabriela is a music therapist in the child life department of @mountsinainyc in Manhattan, who was helping the patient write a song and a music video. The patient was Elene Javrishvili, who had come from her home in the former Soviet republic of Georgia to visit her mother in New York around Christmas and fallen suddenly ill, with a high fever and stomachaches and mysterious bruises and infections. She tumbled through a series of holes and soon found herself in a hospital, diagnosed at age 11 with acute myeloid leukemia. She had been at Mount Sinai for 46 days. She was glad to see her visitors. Most children’s hospitals have child life departments. The one at Kravis Children’s Hospital at Mount Sinai, as the 70-bed hospital on Fifth Avenue overlooking Central Park is formally known, has a full-time staff of 20 (plus 2 therapy dogs) and offers art, creative writing and meditation, among other therapies. Much of the department’s work is aimed at normalizing life for patients who cannot leave their rooms. And for Elene, who remained hostage to the rhythms of illness and treatment, she decided to make her song an anthem of self-acceptance. “There’s a lot of kids who are trying to not be themselves,” Elene said later. “I don’t like that.” @benjaminnorman took this photo of Elene in bed with Gabriela on her right and Nicole Wood a video specialist. Visit the link in our profile to read more.

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