It was about 8:30 on a busy morning. An old gentleman in his 80s came to the 1. I heard him saying the nurse that he was in a hurry for an appointment at 9:30.
The nurse had him take a 2 in the waiting area, telling him it would be at least 40 minutes 3 someone would be able to see him. I saw him looking at his watch and decided, since I was not busy 一 my patient didn't 4 at the appointed hour, I would examine his wound. While taking care of his wound, I asked him 5 he had another doctor's appointment.
The gentleman said no and told me that he6to go to the nursing home to eat breakfast with his 7 . He told me that she had been there for a while and that she had a special disease. I asked if she would be 8 if he was a bit late. He replied that she 9 knew who he was, and she had not been able to recognize him for five years now. I was 10, and asked him, "And you still go every morning, 11 she doesn't know who you are?"
He smiled and said, "She doesn't know me, but I know who she is." I had to hold back12 as he left.
Now I realize that in marriages, true love is acceptance of all that is. The happiest people don't 13 have the best of everything: they just 14 the best of everything they have.15isn't about how to live through the storm, but how to dance in the rain.
