| This one is for Amalia... English Version |
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Greek bloggers are mourning the loss of one
of their own, a young Greek cancer patient
whose adventures through the Greek medical
system touched thousands, and are dedicating
June 1 to her memory.
Amalia Kalyvinou, who died last week at the
age of 30, had attracted many to her Internet
Weblog [www.fakellaki.blogspot.com]
with her stories about incompetent and
corrupt doctors who failed to diagnose her
for years or took financial advantage of her
despair.
http://fakellaki.blogspot.com - Amalia's Blog
http://giatinamalia-blog.blogspot.com -
Amalia's friends
Dear friends,
This video
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIg0q9H5auc)
is a protest of Greek bloggers demanding -on
behalf of all Greek citizens- efficient,
decent and free Healthcare for all. The story
begun when a young blogger, Amalia, died
after years of strugle with not only her
health problem but also with the
disfunctional Health System.
Pls visit our protest blog
http://amaliasday.blogspot.com/
and support us in our protest.
We want the whole world to know we won't quit
unless the State takes action!
Thank you in advance!
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/gia-tin-y
geia-for-health/sign.html
Tags : Αμαλια Amalia fakellaki blog blogspot greek bloggers greece health system death cancer |
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| Amália Rodrigues - "tudo isto é fado" |
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qualquer um faz música...mas...só nós
fazemos Fado
letra:
Perguntaste-me outro dia
Se eu sabia o que era o fado
Disse-te que não sabia
Tu ficaste admirado
Sem saber o que dizia
Eu menti naquela hora
Disse-te que não sabia
Mas vou-te dizer agora
Almas vencidas
Noites perdidas
Sombras bizarras
Na Mouraria
Canta um rufia
Choram guitarras
Amor ciúme
Cinzas e lume
Dor e pecado
Tudo isto existe
Tudo isto é triste
Tudo isto é fado
Se queres ser o meu senhor
E teres-me sempre a teu lado
Nao me fales só de amor
Fala-me também do fado
E o fado é o meu castigo
Só nasceu pr'a me perder
O fado é tudo o que digo
Mais o que eu não sei dizer
Almas vencidas
Noites perdidas
Sombras bizarras
Na Mouraria
Canta um rufia
Choram guitarras
Amor ciúme
Cinzas e lume
Dor e pecado
Tudo isto existe
Tudo isto é triste
Tudo isto é fado
Amor ciúme
Cinzas e lume
Dor e pecado
Tudo isto existe
Tudo isto é triste
Tudo isto é fado
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| R.E.M***Everybody Hurts (no Amalia,you were not alone) |
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIg0q9H5auc&fe
ature=related This song is dedicated to
Amalia Kalyvinou (Greek: Αμαλία
Καλυβίνου) (click the link to learn
about her sad story)- Αφιερωμένο
στην Αμαλία Καλυβίνου
R.E.M - Everybody Hurts
When your day is long and the night,/The
night is yours alone / When you're sure
you've had enough of this life,/ well hang on
Don't let yourself go, 'cause everybody cries
,and everybody hurts
Sometimes...sometimes everything is wrong,/
Now it's time to sing along
If you think you've had too much of this
life, / well hang on / 'Cause everybody
hurts, / take comfort in your friends /
Everybody hurts, / don't throw your hands, oh
now, /Don't throw your hands
If you feel like you're alone, no, no, no /
you're not alone / If you're on your own in
this life, the days and nights are long
When you think you've had too much, of this
life, to hang on / Well everybody hurts,
sometimes / Everybody cries, and everybody
hurts, sometimes / everybody hurts sometimes
so hold on, hold on, hold on...
Everybody hurts, you are not alone...
ABOUT AMALIA (thanks for reading)
"Every patient has the right to being
respected and maintaining his dignity."
(Greek law, article 47, L.2071/1992)
"Quacks should be the exception, you guys,
not the norm..." (Amalia Kalyvinou ,
1977-2007)
Since the age of 8, Amalia Kalyvinou started
having pains. Despite her numerous visits to
doctors and several admissions to hospitals,
no-one managed to diagnose her in time with
the benign neurinoma of her lower extremity,
which was the actual diagnosis at that point.
17 years later, Amalia was told that the
neurinoma had transformed by then into a
malignant tumour.
For the next 5 years, Amalia not only had to
fight with the cancerous disease and
amputation, but also with a corrupt Greek
National Health System: it ignores (by
choice) the ongoing patient-to-doctor bribery
and insists on time-consuming bureaucratic
methods and practices. Besides radiotherapy
and chemotherapy, Amalia had to face the
financial exploitation by doctors that stood
opposite to rather than by her side. On top
of her pain, she had to endure the greediness
of private clinics and the exhaustingly long
waiting queues of the health insurance
system, in order to get legal approval for
some ridiculously low financial compensation.
Amalia passed away on Friday, May the 25th,
2007. She was just 30 years old...Before
dying, she managed to document her experience
and share it with us in her blog
http://fakellaki.blogspot.com/. The promising
literature graduate named in there each and
every one of the doctors she had to bribe,
praising at the same time the ones that
honoured the Hippocratic Oath. Her testimony
moved thousands of people that stood by her
side all the way to the end.
read more and in almost every language here:
http://giatinamalia-blog.blogspot.com/
Μy blog : http://cosmo-biology.blogspot.com/
Tags : R.E.M Everybody Hurts Athens Amalia Greece Griekenland Hellas Kalyvinou Αμαλία Καλυβίνου Ελλάδα corruption malpractice |
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| Amalia Rodrigues _ Com que voz _ |
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"Com Que Voz" is Amália at her best . In
this 1970 album She sings poems by some of
the greatest Portuguese-speaking poets of all
time, ( Luis Camoes for this song ) . The
music was composed by, Alain Oulman, of
French-Portuguese origin. The result is sheer
poetry, sheer magic, considered by some
critics as the finest album ever recorded in
Portugal.
Com Que Voz
Luis Camoes - Alain Oulman
Com que voz chorarei meu triste fado,
que em tão dura paixão me sepultou.
Que mor não seja a dor que me deixou
o tempo, de meu bem desenganado.
Mas chorar não estima neste estado
aonde suspirar nunca aproveitou.
Triste quero viver, poi se mudou
em tisteza a alegria do passado.
Assim a vida passo descontente,
ao som nesta prisão do grilhão duro
que lastima ao pé que a sofre e sente.
De tanto mal, a causa é amor puro,
devido a quem de mim tenho ausente,
por quem a vida e bens dele aventuro.
Tags : amalia rodrigues com que voz camoes fado portugal dulce oulman poet |
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