if you're a bird i'm a bird

Today I sent home a patient that I had admitted on my Saturday call this past weekend. Later this week she and her husband will celebrate their wedding anniversary. At age 14 she wrote his 17 year old self a letter for every day he was off fighting in World War II. Three years later they were married. Fast forward 62 (!) years and he never once left her side while I took care of her in the hospital. Not once.