: of love and fear :

Dear Mr. Quack GP,

Thank you for your kind overpriced services during my stay at the hospital. However, I certainly did not find it funny when you:

1. Pressed my appendix so hard that you CAUSED it to hurt, and then telling me that I had Appendicitis.

2. Admitted me to the hospital with no confirmed diagnose.

3. Punched a hole into my left wrist, told me I have small veins and you couldn’t find them, removed the needle and then punched yet another hole into my right wrist. IF YOU CAN’T FIND MY VEIN, DON’T SIMPLY POKE!! Think I’m a pin cushion is it??

4. Hooked me up to a drip for a whole night even though I’m still allowed to eat food. It wasn’t very pleasant watching my blood flow in and out of the tube every time I moved it.

5. Contested the surgeon who, after analyzing my blood test and checking me physically, said that I was fine and could go home.

6. Refused to let me check out of the hospital, instead making me stay till evening and then for overnight observation.

7. Did not listen to me when I said that my pain was IN THE CENTER AND NOT BY MY SIDE.

8. Scared my parents and boyfriend by telling them stories of various possibilities that were barely liable.

9. And finally, Mr. Quack GP, it definitely wasn’t funny when you TRIED TO GET ME OPERATED ON WHEN I DID NOT HAVE APPENDICITIS!!!

With much love,
Patient 22210

(yeah, that really was my number! Freakeh!)

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I think he surpassed my family and friends' expectations.

Did he surpass mine?

No.

He did everything I expected of him. He did everything that had the quality of what I was looking for in a partner.

A life partner.

That reaffirmed many things.

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While in the hospital, I experienced something that I've never felt before.

I experienced real fear.

Fear of surgery.

Fear of death.

That's when he taught me... What smiles are really for.

He made me smile even when my eyes were tearing in fear.

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I also learnt... Of people who really cared for me.

I saw it in so many people. And I can only thank Him for these people in my life.

One person, however, disappointed me.

And she was the one person who shouldn't have.

Instead, I saw kindness in another soul. A soul who exuded the essence of being a loving, caring and above all, motherly figure.

I miss having one.