GPMUS+leave

I threw the coat at him and walked out. I intended to serve God and if that meant leaving a monastery that didn't know how then so be it. I found an abandoned house in a city nearby whose family had passed and was encouraged to take up residence. I threw everything out and burned it. I had heard that the plague was not so terrible in Arabia where they bathed, so I figured they might be right and started to clean my stuff and myself.


 * I met a doctor named Guy De Chauliac who tended to the patients, he was the most intelligent person I knew, and he showed me what he knew about the disease. One of the things he said was that it would be best to isolate those healthy from those that are sick. I guess the monastery was right, my time has just yet to come.


 * OH NO!, Guy has become sick himself, I tend to him, he is so dedicated to his work, he takes notes on his own symptoms so that someone else can find a cure. He know's it's probably hopeless.


 * Joy, he has somehow survived. He's very weak but most of his symptoms have declined, I think he might be one of the very few lucky ones.


 * It appears the plague has passed, it's been several days since the last case died, and no new ones have shown up.


 * In return for taking care of him, Guy has agreed to teach me what I know, so I can become a mid-wife and help women deliver babies. He thought to get me into a school of medicine but they wouldn't let me because I'm a woman.


 * I was running an errand for Guy today that took me by the old monastery, I stopped by to see how they were doing, but no one answered. A lady, whose husband I had tended to, told me that the monastery became infected soon after I left, and they had all died inside and alone. I was sad for them, and said a prayer because I knew they had mostly acted out of fear.


 * Guy has helped me raise the money and set up a small mid-wife clinic, that can also help people with other types of ailments. Since people have seen Guy and me close to each other, more people come than would usual. I think they believe that I ask his advice most of the time, I'm ok with that because I can spend my life helping those in need, and am very happy to do so.




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