Another Day In Paradise...

LegacyUser

So the doctor walks in and sits me down, I'm pretty pissed because I've been waiting for like four hours just to get a word with this guy, me with an appointment and all.
So I'm sitting there and he starts talking about melanoma this and melanoma that, I'm thinking...this guy is making this sound pretty serious, I wish I knew enough about melanomas to understand exactly what he is talking about.
Then he asks me if I researched what a melanoma is, I say '' it's like a skin growth'', then he says, ''it is a skin growth, and it is cancerous''. After this I just couldn't stop laughing, the irony that I give up smoking and then a year later find out that I have cancer. I was cracking up, here's this doctor sitting there sullen face like that's the end for me and all I can do is laugh.
Then he says that it is treatable, he doesn't sound too convinced though. Then he tells me about them cutting me open, I'm not really listening to him anymore though, I've been hit like a ton of bricks, I keep laughing though, probably because I don't know what else to do.
He asks me if I have anyone with me, I'm thinking ''why would I have brought anyone with me? I'm in the prime of lime, people like me don't get sick'', I tell him ''no'' and then get the **** out of dodge, don't want to be in that room any longer than I have to, that room where everything changed for me.
I leave that office almost in a dream state, still laughing, always laughing, I kind of wonder now what others did when they were told they have cancer, I'm guessing mine wasn't the normal reaction.
I get in the car and drive, I'm driving and it eventually hits me, ''fuuuuuuuuuucccccccccccccccccccccccckkkkkkkkk'', maybe game over, I eventually stop laughing. I don't cry, I don't anything really, I just keep driving.

Sarky

Bumping this because it slipped off page one before it was approved. Apologies to the OP.

pickarooney

Anon1984 wrote: »

So the doctor walks in and sits me down, I'm pretty pissed because I've been waiting for like four hours just to get a word with this guy, me with an appointment and all.
So I'm sitting there and he starts talking about melanoma this and melanoma that, I'm thinking...this guy is making this sound pretty serious, I wish I knew enough about melanomas to understand exactly what he is talking about.
Then he asks me if I researched what a melanoma is, I say '' it's like a skin growth'', then he says, ''it is a skin growth, and it is cancerous''. After this I just couldn't stop laughing, the irony that I give up smoking and then a year later find out that I have cancer. I was cracking up, here's this doctor sitting there sullen face like that's the end for me and all I can do is laugh.
Then he says that it is treatable, he doesn't sound too convinced though. Then he tells me about them cutting me open, I'm not really listening to him anymore though, I've been hit like a ton of bricks, I keep laughing though, probably because I don't know what else to do.
He asks me if I have anyone with me, I'm thinking ''why would I have brought anyone with me? I'm in the prime of lime, people like me don't get sick'', I tell him ''no'' and then get the **** out of dodge, don't want to be in that room any longer than I have to, that room where everything changed for me.
I leave that office almost in a dream state, still laughing, always laughing, I kind of wonder now what others did when they were told they have cancer, I'm guessing mine wasn't the normal reaction.
I get in the car and drive, I'm driving and it eventually hits me, ''fuuuuuuuuuucccccccccccccccccccccccckkkkkkkkk'', maybe game over, I eventually stop laughing. I don't cry, I don't anything really, I just keep driving.

It's a sound enough couple of paragraphs but I can't help feeling that despite the dramatic nature of the encouter there's something lacking. Is there more of this to come or is it a standalone? I'll hold off commenting any more pending a response.

weiming

I feel the same as pickarooney, and would like to see how this one pans out.

partyatmygaff

It has this kind of dark and dramatic type of feel to it but it doesn't really show through the language for some reason, I think it may be because your progressing the action too fast in the story that it loses the dramatic feel to it somehow.