Isabella Mak is a medical student at UAB School of Medicine. She hopes to empower herself and others through art to bring about healing, entertainment, and social change.

Restoring Joy

Monday morning messages

Many more mails

Minutes feel motionless

Time, perhaps merciless

Seeing their melting moods were

Mixed with madness and mourning

Garrulity was your sign of dementia

As if it was your manifesto

Seeing them mapping out their lives that were

Mixed with misery and mystery

Ironically, marked in my memory

Stuck like magnets

Mountain on a misty day

Moments captured by megapixels

Humming a melody

Watching the Maleficent movie

Mopping up the mess 

From making macadamia macaron

The kitchen marble is not just a place to make some homemade mason jar mayonnaise

It’s also a place to journal the journey because every patient has a story

Wondering about what they told me about magnolia bark

As they hope for a magic pill

While diseases and determinants of health multiply

We can say words that are less mind-boggling to patients, 

when we are ready to feel again