The doctor paused, then responded in a matter-of-fact tone, as if it wasn’t unusual.
“It can still happen.”
She left unconvinced.
Not embarrassed—just certain the diagnosis was wrong.
So she sought a second opinion.
The second doctor listened, examined her briefly, and reached the same conclusion.
“Most likely crabs,” he said.
Again, she pushed back immediately.
“No. That’s impossible.”
But once more, the explanation didn’t change. No deeper discussion. No alternative suggestion. Just the same answer delivered with clinical certainty.
By the third appointment, she was determined to get clarity.
“I’ve already seen two doctors,” she said. “Both said the same thing, but it cannot be true.”
The third doctor listened differently. He didn’t interrupt. He didn’t rush. He simply examined her carefully and took his time.
After a few moments, he leaned back and removed his gloves.
“I can confirm one thing,” he said.
She waited.
“It’s not crabs.”
Relief washed over her.
“I knew it,” she said quickly.
The doctor nodded.
“But in your case,” he continued, “the situation is a bit different.”
She leaned forward, expecting something complex.
Instead, the explanation came slowly, carefully, almost gently.
“At your age,” he said, “when something is left untouched for a long time, it can attract… other natural issues.”
She frowned. “What do you mean?”
He gave a small, knowing nod.
“Let’s just say this isn’t what you were worried about.”
A pause.
“This is more like fruit flies.”
Silence filled the room.
Then it hit her.
All the stress, all the confusion, all the insistence that it couldn’t be what the earlier doctors suggested—it all collapsed into an unexpectedly simple explanation.
She sat there for a moment, speechless.
Not because the answer was frightening.
But because it was far stranger than anything she had prepared herself to hear.
As she stood up and collected her things, dignity intact as always, one quiet truth remained:
Sometimes the answer you resist the most is the one that finally makes everything clear.
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