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Hospital Smell Evokes Memories
Memories of My Grandmother Yuki Kimata from Japan The smell of disinfectant in a hospital brings back memories of my grandmother. She passed away when she was 73 years old when I was a high school student. She lived in her house alone and worked as a nurse until she died. My father worked close to the hospital where she worked, so he took her to the hospital and brought her home almost every day. I sometimes went to the hospital with him to pick her up when she had worked a night shift or when she went to work on Sunday. I sometimes saw her working at the hospital, and there was always a smell of a disinfectant in the place. That smell today always reminds me of her.
Elisabeth Volquardts from Germany When I was at the university, I had a job in a hospital intensive care unit. That's why I smelled the odor of a hospital very often. When I entered the hospital at night (Usually I worked the night shift.), I was always hit by a certain smell and I knew at once I was back at work. The odor comes from hygienic corridors, drugs, and food--it's a mix of many smells, and it's similar in every hospital. Whenever I enter a hospital today, it reminds me of working in the children's intensive care unit, which brings back both good and bad memories.
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