Carly-Jay Metcalfe

Carly-Jay Metcalfe’s memoir, Breath, was published by UQP in 2024 to critical acclaim, winning the The Courier-Mail People’s Choice Queensland Book of the Year Award. Her work has appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald, Kill Your Darlings and TEXT Journal.

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Standard issue

The first thing nurses get us new admissions to do is change into a gown – standard issue. It’s not what I’d call comfortable, exactly; it’s not even about dignity. It’s about access. If your condition suddenly becomes critical, doctors need to get to your body fast. Even so, when I’m allowed to leave later that afternoon, I tear off the gown and pull on the clothes I arrived in.

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