Chapter 226

Chapter 226

Eden

"You're going to have to have surgery."

The doctor's words echo in my brain as I try to make them sink in. I've never had surgery before, and I'm immediately scared shitless. "Are you sure? There's nothing else that can be done? Like some more medicine or something?"

He gives me an almost condescending smile. "If there were, we would have already done it. I'm afraid this is what's going to have to happen. If we don't get it out soon, we'll be right back where we started. Right now we've got the inflammation down and the infection under some semblance of control. Waiting or trying something else will take us a step back and could lead to sepsis. Which means it would poison your body, and then it would worse than you could even imagine. I'm talking ICU or maybe death," he stops to let that sink in.

And the pregnant pause does its job. "Okay, I get what you're saying. How much longer will I need to be in here?"

"Depends on what we find when we get inside. When we'