pathetic
"It's pathetic to feel sorry for youself, and I'm not going to do it any more."
(She said, sitting down at her desk after an 18-hour workday, eating a dinner of cold, two-day old microwave-reheated mac and cheese and waiting in silent dread for her pager to go off, with a message from her resident to run back to the OR for yet another case of small bowel obstruction.)
xo Michelle
P.S. Thanks for the e-mails, all. It actually does make me feel better, as I am, indeed, pitiful. |