We're a group of scientific names that describe why we have unwillingly entered your lives. We are an inconvenient page at two in the morning, a nosebleed on your clean lab coat, a procedure scheduled in for surgery tomorrow morning. Sometimes we interrupt you in your leisure time, and sometimes we mean that you spend less time with your kids. To us, we are so much more.
W e have names of our own.
Our own loves, and fears, and hopes and dreams and personal tragedies. We are someone's daughter, someone's son and grandchild and cousin and sibling. But because of circumstances out of our control, we put our lives in your hands. P lease, never lose sight of the faith and trust we put in you. And, as we try to humanize our inhuman situations, please help us.