Any person who has spent serious time in a hospital worried about a relative knows the dread of the waiting room. You’re anxious, bored, and melancholic — waiting to hear what the doctor has to say. One mother found an unlikely way to make it bearable, and she’s shared the story with the world.
Writing an essay for Newsweek, Kirsten Love says that she had a full-blown crush on her daughters’ doctor. Eventually, it turned into a survival tool across years of appointments, and her husband, Richard, was in on it the entire time.
