Here’s the music I listed to on repeat before my last brain surgery.
Goodbye My 4-Track, Indian Valley Line
Break My Stride, Matthew Wilder
Say Anything, Bouncing Souls
Don't Stop Me Now, Queen
I flipped through these songs non-stop for hours leading up till the time that I had an intravenous injection of something to make me fall fast asleep right before the thing responsible for all my functioning gets exposed to the world for a few hours.
Liz Salmi is Communications & Patient Initiatives Director for OpenNotes at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. Over the last 15 years Liz has been: a research subject; an advisor in patient stakeholder groups; a leader in “patient engagement” research initiatives; and an innovator, educator and investigator in national educational and research projects. Today her work focuses on involving patients and care partners in the co-design of research and research dissemination. It is rumored Liz was the drummer in a punk rock band.
