an unexpected diagnosis and a hospital stay

he is told to go to the emergency room
for what he thinks is a minor matter
he’s there for six long hours
but he’s not bother by that
he sees the staff are
overwhelmed with people
most in worse shape them him
or so he thinks

when he finally gets to see
the doctor he can’t believe
the doctor is keeping him
in the hospital to confirm
he has a blood cancer

he can’t believe it
he hasn’t been hospitalized
except for the day he was born

he has worked out for decades
is or was a healthy specimen
doesn’t drink smoke
do drugs or eat red meat
an unlikely candidate
for a deadly cancer

no time for sleep in the hospital
nurses and phlebotomists
testing and checking
on him day and night
he hates being confined
and he’s got fish to feed at home

days later he gets discharged
sick of hospital food tons of tests
no peace and no real sleep

a year and loads of treatments
and arm punctured blood tests
finally he’s free of the cancer
improved and reborn better
personally and spiritually

the trials the treatments
a triumph and he lost his
fear of death forever

bob boyd

Author: BobBoyd

Age 80. Cancer survivor since 3 years ago. Work out 3 times a week. Ride my exercise bike 2 hours a day. Live a solo reclusive life. Retired a year ago from working with the elderly in a nonprofit. Started writing poetry a little over a year ago; most poems I write are fictional but some are not. Spiritual with a permanent spiritual experience. Write poems on many subjects. Always researching for many of my poems and because of my unquenchable thirst for knowledge. After reading and hearing about many near death experiences and death bed visions, I believe death is the ultimate awakening and the relocation of a lifetime. You may believe differently, but you have the right to be wrong -- I'm just messing with you. :-) View all posts by BobBoyd