Yes, I am addicted to LOST too. So last night Lost left me hanging until February — just because they can.

In the last scene Jack told Kate to remember the story he told her when they first crashed on the beach. (I can’t believe I just typed that sentence.) Well, I couldn’t remember Jack’s story and someone sent it to me this morning.

I thought it was worth sharing.

JACK: “Well, fear’s sort of an odd thing. When I was in residency my first solo procedure was a spinal surgery on a 16 year old kid, a girl. And at the end, after 13 hours, I was closing her up and I, I accidentally ripped her dural sac, shredded the base of the spine where all the nerves come together, membrane as thin as tissue. And so it ripped open and the nerves just spilled out of her like angel hair pasta, spinal fluid flowing out of her and I: and the terror was just so crazy. So real. And I knew I had to deal
with it. (He’s crying). So I just made a choice. I’d let the fear in, let it take over, let it do its thing, but only for 5 seconds, that’s all I was going to give it. So I started to count, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. Then it was gone. I went back to work, sewed her up and she was fine.”

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