Someone has left a large bunch of flowers in the doctor’s room. Expensive flowers. The kind that you can smell from the end of the corridor. Huge pink lillies, some yet to bloom, pink roses, purple sweet pea. All in an expensive pink ceramic vase. There is no name attached to these flowers.

Working on an oncology ward, you can never be sure what these gifts signify. Did someone bring the flowers in because a loved one was cured? Or because we had no cure for that loved one, but thank you for trying anyways?