onepissedoffcancer:

It’s probably something in your psyche. The fact that none of the doctors could actually ‘fix’ you, made you want to be the type of doctor that could really fix others. To one up them or some bullshit like that? Augh, I don’t even know what I’m saying.

-At least it made sense in your mind, even if she didn’t understand what you were getting at. For the first time in a while though, you felt as though you could simply talk. Talk while she (humoured) listened to you and provided her own input.-

Thanks though, might ask them to up the meds if the pain becomes really unbearable.

You give his ideas a little thought, and they seem legitimate enough to you.  It was refreshing to be psychoanalyzed yourself, instead of the reverse, and it sounded like it was a good way to distract Karkat from thinking about himself.

That’s certainly a feasible explanation.  I had always wanted to go into medicine, but becoming blind certainly altered my perspective on the profession, and I think it made me interested in other frontiers of it, instead of the more abstract profession of psychiatry.  It isn’t to say I don’t still consider that as a potential career path, but…part of me does want to do that, to prove others’ expectations of me wrong.

You can’t help but cringe a little as he mentions the pain.

Don’t hesitate to do so if you do feel sharper pain.  I would hate to have you suffer.