This is especially for everyone grappling with a new medical diagnosis, and for all who love and care for them.
it's a new language I'm learning to speak these medical words in this medical world with these medical people they stick in my throat these unfamiliar terms these foreign ideas that I don't want to speak these words should remain locked in closets or shoved deep under the bed these awful words I dread but speak them I must and face them head on there's no cure in hiding wishing they were gone no, I'm not fluent in this new language I retain only what I need to know and the words still stick in my throat
