An ironically amusing experience.

It is an irony of life  when something totally unexpected happens, a bare truth that is revealed and then the look of anxiety, confusion in a person's face.  You feel amused at the predicament as to what to do next. May be all would feel amused in such a situation. But mine being a different scenario altogether, I couldn't help smiling at it.

I had been to  my oncologist to check out why I was getting clots and hemorrhages all over me, in spite of my stopping my blood thinner tablets and even after taking vitamin K injections. My family doctor had already voiced her concern to my oncologist, so I was spared of all the detailed description of it. He as usual thought about it with a smile and closed eyes; and then told me he would examine me first. Though he felt there was nothing to be concerned about, he asked me to go through a few blood tests.

I went to the lab, in the clinic, and gave him the slip doctor had given me. It was for a blood test for different tumor markers.  He kept everything ready and then asked me to stretch my hand showing my right hand. After tightening the strap on my arm, he asked me to close my fist tightly. It was then he suddenly remembered to ask me which part of me was removed.  I told him that both my breast have been removed. He sat there shocked and as if he had seen a ghost. I was quite amused seeing his reaction and  I started smiling.  What amused me the most was when he asked me does the doctor know, for which I replied that he was the one who has been treating me for cancer from last three years.

I was smiling to myself, amused at this query. I got a bit curious and asked him, "  What if both breasts are removed?"  He said we would take from the veins in the legs. I was all the more amused at the thought of having blood taken from my veins in the legs, that would be  good to experience. I really sat there and mused over it. What irony of life, I thought.