She’s been so full of her own pain and patients’ pain that she hasn’t considered his pain – and how alone he must feel in it.
I wonder if this is the way of trauma? The wounds are so deep, so raw……that to survive you give in? You are drowning and while you drown the ones who love you drown in the pain of you refusing help- they die a little watching you. And eventually the trauma ripples out and over, seeping everywhere until it’s dealt with. Until it’s addressed
