Mrs. Kelley's Monster 

    As I was reading this story I found myself flinching. Almost producing a subtle headache directly behind my right eye. In tales where people are fighting for their life the reader almost is always routing for the fighter to prevail. This grim story of a woman who lived her life in pain did not have a happy ending. Mrs. Kelley chose to have this deathly operation because the life she was living had minimal quality. The only positive part of this story is that this woman no longer has to live in pain. This statement is sort of generic, when people suffer and inevitably leave the natural world people often use this idea as a coping mechanism. But isn't it the truth? Wouldn't it be a relief to no longer have to feel this pain? Especially something that persisted your entire life. It's a hard pill to swallow that death is inevitable to humans, yet there is some sort of peace in not having to condemned to earth for an eternity. More so that we live in a place where there are people in this degree of pain on a daily basis. The idea that in our world we can even begin to understand the human brain and to go as far as operating on it, is a mere miracle in itself. Although I wanted Mrs. Kelley to wake up and have her condition fixed, the positive outcome is just not always the way of the world. But hey, we can always hope someday it will be....right?