i promise you i will learn from all my mistakes
For anyone watching or eavesdropping, they might have judged Finn's actions as having passed only a very low bar when it comes to offering comfort. Tobi of course knows better, and though at least some of what he does is merely perfunctory, enough of it has genuine care in it that she finds herself smiling, if only just for a second. "I visit him during the day." Tobi replies, relaxing against Finn's side. "Ever has come with me a few times as well, but...I can tell that it makes him uncomfortable." This is said with all the clinical understanding of a doctor who has seen this progression many many times before.
Even so, now that it's her family it's happening to, she can't help the way it weighs on her. "I doubt if he'll make it to the end of the year. And if he does, it won't be with many of his faculties intact." Tobi says, smoothing out a crease that threatens to form in her dress. "I'm hoping I can talk to him about it. About how long he wants to keep living for once his mind is more or less gone." Really, they should have had this conversation already, but it's true that doctors make the worst patients; naively Tobi had thought she had a little more time.
"I just wanted you to know, in case Ever asks. He's been talking a lot about death lately, though...I think I overheard Mateo talking about what flowers he wanted at his funeral, so that might be part of it."
Even so, now that it's her family it's happening to, she can't help the way it weighs on her. "I doubt if he'll make it to the end of the year. And if he does, it won't be with many of his faculties intact." Tobi says, smoothing out a crease that threatens to form in her dress. "I'm hoping I can talk to him about it. About how long he wants to keep living for once his mind is more or less gone." Really, they should have had this conversation already, but it's true that doctors make the worst patients; naively Tobi had thought she had a little more time.
"I just wanted you to know, in case Ever asks. He's been talking a lot about death lately, though...I think I overheard Mateo talking about what flowers he wanted at his funeral, so that might be part of it."
October
