"Beep beep. Downstream occlusion. Sharp scratch. There is a lady next door who giggles every now and then at nothing at all. Will other people’s visitors PLEASE stop using the ward commode as a chair? Non urgent, wait and see.

We’ll stay forever this way. You are safe in my heart and my heart will go on and on (and if it doesn’t beep beep beep). Normal pulse range 60-100 beats per minute. Normal respiratory rate 12-20 breaths per minute."

In the short film My Heart Will Go On (2018), a static camera records Lizzy’s heart monitor to the sound of Lizzy hesitantly playing the 1997 Celine Dion hit from Titanic on keyboard. The oxygen level monitor waveform appears to form a series of icebergs which speak to the realities of chronic illness: melodrama becoming rote, high bombast made fragile.