CHAPTER 10

It felt like pure thunder shook against my ribs like a warning, my heart was screaming inside my body. "Doctor, please what is it?"

The question spilled out of my mouth, my voice cracked, yet I could barely say the words past the lump hanging in my throat.

The doctor with his face deep-set with worry and this only emphasized my growing anxiety.

In a hesitant voice, he continued "To be specific she is not progressing as quickly as we assumed she would".

Everything has been completed, but she has closed her eyes for some time, could this be what he's trying to say? I wondered.

His eyes were like two chisels. With each word, they carved away my hope, which was already too weak to stand on its own.

I was at a loss for words and my thoughts would not process that this could happen, that something was happening to my mom.

A fight between life and death.

"It looks like your mother is not ready to come with us on this side," the doctor continued, his voice devoid of any signs of comfort