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Just survive somehow is what I always would tell myself for motivation in college. Now, I use these three words to make it through bad days at work. As a surgeon, I cut, I heal, and I fix people. Through the years, I’ve had to do hard things like telling peoples families their loved ones didn’t make it through surgery, unplug people from life support, and called time of death. Those are all hard things to do, I always thought I could handle any kind of pain after dealing with all of that. The thing is, it’s different when something happens to you. Sure, you feel bad for the patients and families, it’s inevitable. It’s different when things happen to you directly. My husband Dan and I have been married for eleven years now. We met …show more content…

I heard Dan ask where I was but I couldn’t move still. “Jill, Layken is soaked in her own tears!” He said coming into our bedroom. “What are you doing sitting in the floor?” He said. “I’m going to start getting dinner ready.” I said avoiding his glare. To keep myself calm while cooking, I went through surgeries in my head. Being a surgeon things made sense to me, I knew how to repair a leaking vole in the heart, I knew how to fix an aortic heart aneurism, and I knew how to keep a heart being. Cardiac Surgery was my specialty. I knew every vein in the heart, I knew everything about the heart and how it works. Funny, it’s funny to think that I have a broken heart and I can’t even fix it.
At dinner, the room felt tense and awkward. It was so very quiet, we never were this quiet before. “I’m going to call Lilly and ask her to go to the gym with me tonight, I need you to watch Layken.” Before I even gave him a chance to respond I left the table. As I was driving I called Lilly to meet me, we’ve been best friends since college, and we are practically like sisters. I had to talk to someone, I was going crazy. Lilly has always been there for me, she was my maid of honor, my best friend, and the one person I could always count

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