Years ago, while examining me during a pre-op physical, my surgeon complained to me about his wife .  Three times within the same sentence, he referred to her as his mother.  I said;” You’re lucky my meter is off.  Otherwise, I’d tell you that you married your mother”; but my meter wasn’t really off.  I  worried he’d displace his aggression, toward the two most important women in his life, onto me during the surgery.  In the recovery room, while still groggy  from the anesthesia, I heard someone singing “Amazing Grace”. When I woke up, I realized it was me. I learned a valuable life lesson from this experience–Just because you think something is true, doesn’t make it true.