Here is my post for this week’s challenge at Julia’s place.
The prompt this time is I woke with another headache…
It’s titled Stubborn John.
Enjoy.
“We should have known the signs. We should have known,” Margaret sobbed.
“Look, I know it’s difficult to understand. There is nothing we could have done. You didn’t know John was sick and he was certainly too stubborn to tell anyone.”
Margaret held up a hand interrupting him. She reached down and pulled a journal from her purse.
“Read October fifteen’s entry,” she said. Dr Alden took it and read.
I woke with another headache…
“Flip to October fourteen,”
I woke with another headache…
“And thirteenth,”
I woke with another headache…
Dr Alden gasped. Each entry, the past three weeks, began with that very sentence.
Cheers,
Bob
PART-TIME NOVEL 
Since presumably he kept his journal secret they have nothing to feel guilty about. The poor bloke probably didn’t realise its gravity himself.
Very true indeed.
How terrible. Great take on the prompt.
Thank you!
John opted for the man’s way, to tough it out as many of us do. It’s a shame that he did not or could not know what he was up against.
Nicely done with this week!
Thanks. I was thinking about myself. I broke my hand playing ice hockey back in college and waited until I was wreathing in bed to do anything about it. Perhaps I was channeling that at the time!