Every once in awhile, I get someone’s story in my head and I just can’t let it go. Sometimes it’s because it’s just so horrible. Sometimes it’s because their story is inspiring to me. Sometimes I don’t know why I’m so hooked in by them. It takes me some time to process what it is about their story that sucks me in.
I had a case like that this week. I could not get this patient out of my head. All week long, my mind would drift back to them. This would happen when I was with someone else and sometimes would happen at home. It took me awhile to figure out what it was that was hooking me in.
I thought that there was nothing similar about us, at first glance. We had taken very different paths in life-educationally, culturally, economically, etc. You get the picture. But, this patient shared their story with me and it really got to me.
I think the reason this patient’s story sucked me in is because in some ways my own story could have had a similar ending as theirs. Fortunately, for me, my story had a happy ending. While I still have anxiety attacks about my son’s illness, he recovered. This patient had a different outcome with their family. And maybe, like I related in my last post, their story sucked me in because I realized how just a few moments being different in my life, everything could have been different.
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