Most human beings have an absolute and infinite capacity for taking things for granted. ~ Aldous Huxley
When you have a body that works more or less the way it should, it is one of the last things you spend your time thinking about. You are not really conscious of your toe unless you stub it, your fingertip unless you cut it. Everything functions predictably and you go about your daily life preoccupied with other thoughts.
A patient of mine remarked to me tonight that when she looks out the window at all the people driving their cars across the bridge, she wishes they knew how lucky they were to have a body full of healthy red cells and clotting platelets. The longing to be one of those people again, with bone marrow that produces it's own healthy cells, instead of being dependant on blood and platelet transfusions to get through each day, was so poignant.
We are all those people driving on the bridge. We are also the people looking out the window.
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