Several months ago I volunteered at a hospital. One day I was assigned to discharge(安排出院） a patient. She happened to be a physically and mentally 1 young woman who was limited to a wheelchair. She was 2 in her late twenties or early thirties, but it was difficult to 3 .
As I was 4 her off the floor, down the elevator, and out of the front hall, I couldn't 5 thinking, "Oh my God, her parents must be so 6 . She's in really bad shape. What a shame! She must need constant 7 , and will likely require it for the rest of her life." If I were her father, I would be terribly frustrated.
Then, as I came to the area where family and friends 8 discharged patients, I saw a man who noticed us and began walking quickly towards us. As he got closer, his eyes became bright and he 9 , saying, "Patricia, you look so lovely today! You're finally coming home. We can't 10 to have you back home! We miss you so much!" He carefully placed his daughter in his car, said thank you, and drove off.
I was 11 . My eyes began to fill with tears and I just stood there for a few minutes, trying to process what had just 12 . Then I began to think, "What had I missed there? How could I have been so wrong about the father? Why did he and I have such different 13 towards his daughter?"
It took me days to comprehend what I'd failed to understand when I was evaluating the young woman and her father. Now I know the true 14 of unconditional love, and whenever I deal with other children's 15 , I'll think of Patricia and her dad.
