This is a short story I wrote and shared in the “Writers Playing” group last year, and now I've decided to post it here! It's about a time in my life, when I finally got a definite diagnosis...
I'll just leave you guessing as to what it was! lol

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As I waited for my transport to come and pick me up, outside the hospital, I was thinking about what Dr. M. said to me a few minutes ago. I had just left my appointment with him, feeling both relieved and scared. I couldn’t believe I had finally got some answers! Great, I thought, but this is so overwhelming, it’s hard to take it all in…
Finally my transport came and we headed off out of the city.
Oh, I hate the city, I thought, I’ll be so glad when I get home! Yes, and no more appointments with Dr. M. for a while, well, not for another 3 months…great!
During the 2 hour trip home, I couldn’t stop thinking about what Dr. M. said. It seems I’ve had this “thing”, this “malformation” all my life and never knew it! It’s so strange, but then it explains so much, and gives me answers to the symptoms, the problems, the minor disabilities, I’ve lived with all my life! I feel excited but scared at the same time, how can this be? I should be happy…oh, I am! I don’t have a terminal illness! I’m not going to die! Yes, I will live! I just have something “wrong” with my brain, it’s just a little ummm…“different”!
But how can I tell anyone else? How can I explain it? They wouldn’t know what it is, they’ve probably never even heard of it! They wouldn’t understand, it’s something that no one can see anyway…
Ah, I don’t care, it’s my little secret! I tell myself as Dr. M’s words repeat over and over in my head. Wow, I’m still trying to get my head around this diagnosis, these answers I thought I would never find!
But…sure, I have answers now. But…there is no cure for this “condition” or this “malformation”, as he called it! I have to live with it for the rest of my life.....

{©2008 Jan B.}

~Jaime~