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    The Burden of Conrol – Chapter 11

    Story written on November 5, 2005 by tibette99.
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    The LONG awaited Diagnosis

    Kit: (concerned) Bette?

    Kit’s
    reassuring voice cut through the suffocating dread Bette was
    experiencing. She raised her head and realized that both Kit and Dr.
    Harris were looking at her intently.

    Bette: II’m sorry.

    Dr. Harris: Are you ok, Bette?

    Bette: YesI’m, well I’m just overwhelmed. (pauses) Whatwhat were you just saying?

    Kit: Bette are you sure that you’re all right? You looked a little lost a moment ago.

    Bette: (shakes her head) II don’t know.

    Dr. Harris: Do you understand what I told you?

    Bette is silent once again. Told me? She thought. What did she

    Dr.
    Harris peered closely at Bette, enough to recognize that Bette
    exhibited the signs of shock. Dr. Harris had diagnosed hundreds of
    patients during the years and it was quite common for patients to ‘zone
    out’ at some point during the visit. It was all part of the body’s natural defense mechanism.

    Dr. Harris: (slowly) Bette, the results were not what we had been hoping foryou have cancer.

    She
    could tell by the sudden intake of breath and the widening of her eyes
    that Bette had not heard the diagnosis the first time around. She
    turned to Kit, who was looking from Bette’s profile to the slightly
    shaking hand in her grasp, concern plainly visible on her face. Bette
    closed her eyes for a moment, before taking a deep breath and turning
    her attention back to Dr. Harris.

    Bette: (softly) Ok.

    Kit: Bette, are you

    Bette: (interrupts) I’m fine.

    Bette
    Porter was anything but fine, Dr, Harris realized. People dealt with
    bad news in a variety of ways. Some of her patients broke out into
    immediate hysterics; while others, although upset, sat calmly and
    attentively processing what she was telling them. Bette Porter was in
    an entirely different category. From
    the moment Bette looked back up at her, Dr . Harris could plainly see
    the emotional walls go up. She was internalizing, and that was the
    worst thing someone could do with news like this. In the few appointments she had had with Bette, Dr. Harris could see that Bette was very guarded. It was if she had erected a false sense of calm and security in what had to be a difficult time for her. She wore a wedding band on her left hand, yet Bette always showed up alone or with her sister. Dr.
    Harris worried that perhaps there was more going on in Bette’s life
    than this and it was a damn shame. Bette would need all the support she
    could get in these trying times.

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    1. First hurray!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! tina get your ass home now!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! this is heartbreaking but good she can’t lose her but I know she willl post now!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    2. Thank you…thank you…thank you…I’ll forgive you for taking so long with this chapter ONLY if you promise to keep going with it. Thsnks for emailing and giving me the heads up on it.Well I assumed it was cancer from the get go…your CLIFFHANGER left us with the indication of what was to come.The medical terms were tricky…but you explained them well.Bette has to let Kit help her…she can’t take this all on by herself. What about Tina? And now that she knows about the baby. Glad she called Alice, to see her reaching out to a friend. She hasn’t talked to her or any other the other girls in a while, right?Ok. Now that you’ve left me wanting more…WRITE WRITE WRITE (j/k) :)

    4. So sad yet so real. Bette needs to talk to some one, Alice is the next best thing to Kit. What will Tina do,Bette will reject her now. She will fight this with Kit and Alice. Tina want give up tho. She will fight Bette every step of the way. she will want to be with Bette and Bette will not accept her pity. thanks

    5. this is very sad, i have a friend who just found out that her little 4 y.o. girl has a leukemia and it’s devistating, i hope you won’t kill bette, i’d rather her to be an alcoholic than dying…and i hope alice will tell tina so she can come home and be with bette

    8. when cancer is present it is realy rare, a happy ending is in site…As hard as it will be to read this story, do to the fact that some one close to me is going threw a simular situation, I am looking forward to where you take this and remember it’s fiction so realy Bette could bounce back.*wink* Thanks a bunch.

    9. tibette..so glad to see you back here. Promise not to leave us hanging as long this time? : ) Missed you. Please have her call Tina…she needs her the most.

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