I awaken in a hospital room. A very plain hospital room. No one is in it, no doctors, not my son, not Ava. No one. I try to push myself off the bed and sit up but when I try I get a sharp pain in my abdomen, I let out a loud groan and a nurse comes flying in the room.
"Oh goodie! Your awake." She chimed at me.
"Why am I here?" I ask her as I lay back down on the bed. "And can you sit this bed up?" She walks over to the side of my bed and starts to sit my bed up. "Thank you."
"Yep! I let the doctor know you are awake." She sounded less happy then she did when she first entered.
I frown as I look around for my phone. I find it on the bedside table. I lean over to grab it but I immediately sit back up. Any movement is like needles to my abdomen.
The doctor comes into the room with a sad smile on his face. "How are you feeling?" He asks me as he begins to check my vitals and my charts.
"Like I'm pregnant again." I laughed out and he laughed with me.
"Well, not quiet.."He took a long pause then he spoke, "You have chronic hepatitis." He tells me as he looks at me for a reaction. Quiet frankly I have no clue what he is talking about. I don't know what that is or why I'm here.
"I'm sorry but what is that?"
"Chronic Hepatitis is a infection or inflammation in the liver. It is caused by hepatitis C or B and most of the time it is treatable by certain medication." He explained, but I picked up on a hesitation coming from him.
"But?" I ask him encouraging him to continue.
"Yours went unnoticed for to long. Your body was unable to fight the infection in your liver which has caused liver disease. You have been out for about 3 days and in those 3 days we have put you on every medication known to fight off Chronic Hepatitis, but none of them have worked. Your liver is denying all of them and has given up you can say. Which is why I have to tell you that your liver is failing. And if your liver fails the infection will spread to the rest of your organs and those will begin to fail causing fatal circumstances." He explained more in depth. I couldn't understand how I have been out for 3 days but yet no one was here.
"Where is my son?" I ask him as I hold back my tears at the thought that I could die.
"In the waiting room with who I assume is his father." He told me.
Why was Mateo here?
"Can I see my son?"
"Of course I'll send them in now." He leaves the room and a tear falls down my cheek. I wipe it away quickly, no room to cry.
The door swings open and Luca runs inside.
"Mommy!" He smiles as he climbs onto my bed and hugs me.
"Hi baby." I hug him tightly.
"You had me worried sick girl!" Ava exclaims as she comes over and hugs me.
"I'm fine really." I give her the best smile I can muster.
¨You better be.¨ She eyed me over making sure I was really ok. She frowned, ¨So what is wrong? Cause we all know something is wrong. You would'nt just be stuck in the hospital.¨
¨It's nothing truly. Just a stomach bug.¨
Luca looks up at me and frowns. ¨There's a bug in your stomach?¨ Ava laughs and I laugh with her.
¨No baby. I just have a sickness that is in my stomach.¨
¨Oh. Oh ya Daddy is here too! But he wouldnt come inside the room to see you with me.¨ He jumped off the bed and smiled, ¨I'll go get him!¨ He smiled as he ran to the door.
¨Luca, lets leave your dad alone.¨ I told him. I just don't want to deal with him right now.
¨Okay..¨ Luca walks back over to me as the door opens. The doctor comes in frowning.
Ava sees the doctors frown and knows that its time for her and Luca to leave. I give Luca one last kiss on the head before Ava picks him up and they both leave the room with Luca begging to stay. Once the door is closed I turn towards the doctor.
¨Whats wrong?¨ I ask him slightly worried.
¨I went through your test results and your blood work.¨ He looked down at his chart and back to me, ¨if we don't find a matching donor in the next 72 hours.. you could die.¨
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