Aaron Mafrici

Aaron Mafrici was admitted to Seattle Grace Mercy West Hospital with a lung tumor.

Early Life
Aaron is an avid singer and performs at night. These moments allow him to express his real feelings, because spends all day making himself smaller, knowing he's too big, physically and emotionally, thereby tending to hide his real emotions. At some point in his life, Aaron met Jeffrey and they developed a romantic relationship.

Hospitalization
Upon noticing he lost his complete upper register, he and Jeffrey came to the ER to find out what was wrong. As the ER was busy and no one paid immediate attention to him, he started singing loudly to make the doctors hear him and to make them understand the seriousness of the problem.

After some initial exams, drs. Altman, Yang, and Karev found a malignancy on his left lung, which turned out to be pleural mesothelioma, a cancer surrounding the lining of his lung. Upon hearing that in the worst case scenario, his lung had to be removed, Aaron stated that he rather die than losing his lung, and thus the ability to continue singing.

Surgery
During surgery, Teddy found that removing the lung would provide the biggest chance of survival, but because of his statement, she decided to remove the visible tumor and treat him with intrapleural hyperthermic therapy.

Alex informed Jeffrey post-op that Aaron should be fine.

Personality
Aaron stated his feelings are often too big to fit the situation properly, e.g. wanting to kill the waiter when his steak wasn't cooked as he asked. Aaron also tends to look down on others.

Romantic
Aaron has a relationship with Jeffrey. Jeffrey stated he does basically everything to take care of Aaron, and still Aaron thinks little of him.

Career
Aaron is a singer, and has been described as an incredibly good one. His work is what allows him to express his real feelings, which is why he'd rather die if he couldn't continue singing.

Notes and Trivia

 * Aaron always needs to have clean humidifiers and he counts on Jeffrey to clean them for him.
 * Using his job to express his real feelings is a little reminiscent of Callie using ortho to relieve her anger.