when silence spoke louder than words: the nurse, the patient, and the secret that saved them both

I would have looked at you and seen myself… and I wasn’t ready for that mirror.” She told me that the “coldness” wasn’t rejection of me at all, but a desperate attempt to hold herself together while her own world collapsed silently. She had been fighting her own battle in secret, walking the same hospital corridors as a patient while pretending to continue reading …