To reach your destination in comfort or reach there anyway?

I have put down in words these two occurrences that happened this week over a short span of time. One of it happened in my scope of work and the other to someone I know.

The first person was a lady who was having menstrual problems for years altogether. Her GP, whom she saw last year, hurried her to have her problems sorted out ASAP as she appeared like an apparition to her, paler than a clean sheet in a deathly shade of pale that would make Casper the Friendly Ghost appear tanned! She, however, morbidly fearful of the people who use stethoscope as their trade tools, decided to procrastinate. Eight months later, she presented at my workplace to be told of a large growth in the cervix that needed to be removed via a simple surgery but after treating her severe anaemia. Her haemoglobin level was 2.9 g/dl! (Normal female range: 11.0 - 14 g/dl) The last time I heard she was trying to get admitted at a medical facility near her house. Good for her...

My friend, who has been suffering in agony for the past 25 years, had finally thrown in the towel. He has decided to lose some of his wisdom by putting a final stop to his recurring problem of exacerbations and remissions of an impacted wisdom tooth. After having a painfully lousy experience with a similar problem in the past during surgery on the contra-lateral side, he decided to procrastinate. Come Valentines' Day, he would lose his wisdom under general anaesthesia. Oh, no! If you indeed have specific memories erased from your brain as an effect of anaesthesia and you lose 2 of your total 4 of wisdom teeth, are you less than half smart? Anyway, it cannot be that bad as 35% of the population do not develop wisdom teeth at all!