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immediate danger
was removed, but your father is still in a critical condition. The
blood clot has already damaged some parts of your father’s brain.
We’re still assessing the extent of the damage though. I’ll check
the patient tonight and see if his condition has stabilized. For
now, he’ll be in life support. Pray for your father, Ms. de Leon,
and keep the faith. He needs it.”
    Katrina heaved a deep sigh. She had
been praying relentlessly. Prayer was the only thing that she could
turn to now that her father was fighting for his life.
    “ Let’s hope for the best,
Ms. de Leon. We’ll do our best to save your father. I hope the
patient will do his best to respond to his medications as well.
This won’t be an easy battle. You should prepare yourselves for the
worst.”
    Her eyes stung with tears. She could
feel her body softening in worry and fear. She couldn’t afford to
lose her father.
    “ Anyways,” the doctor
checked his watch. He looked tired and worn down. “I have to go
now. I have to take some rest. Been here in the hospital for
already twenty-four hours. I’ll be back tonight to check the
patient’s progress.”
    “ Thank you, doc,” she
whispered softly. “Thank you for everything.” She couldn’t
eloquently verbalize how grateful she was for the doctor’s help. He
had rendered OT for her father’s emergency operation which lasted
for more than eight hours. He might have attended to another
patient because it was already four hours since his father was
transferred in the ICU. And she was just grateful that he decided
to check on her father’s condition before going home. She had the
opportunity to talk to him.
    “ I’m just doing my job, Ms.
de Leon.” He smiled at her. He gently tapped her shoulder. “I have
to go now.” Then, he stood up.
    They were talking in one corner of the
ICU, a few meters away from where her father’s hospital bed was
located.
    “ Take care and have some
rest, doc. Again, thank you!” She smiled gratefully to the kind
doctor before he turned his back on her.
    She sighed wearily when she was left
alone with her father. Her conversation with the doctor didn’t give
her the assurance she longed to hear that her father was already
okay. She still had to pray hard for his safety.
    She walked to her father’s bed, sat on
the stool beside him, and looked at him with distress in her eyes.
Her heart wanted to break at the sight. Her father’s life was
sustained by advanced medical apparatus. He was breathing through
the aid of oxygen, looking limp and unresponsive, as if he was
already dead.
    Oh, God! The thought that her father’s
life was floating in limbo made her shoulders shook unabashedly.
Melancholic sobs vibrated in her throat, until she couldn’t contain
her emotions anymore and she broke into tears, her heart was
breaking apart as she covered her mouth.
    What was happening to her family? She
couldn’t help but ponder on things. First, it was her mom. Now, it
was her father. They had just emotionally commemorated the second
death anniversary of her mother. And now this, her father, too, was
on the brink of death.
    God, she really couldn’t bear it if
her father would leave them as well. Knock on wood, but, God,
please, don’t! She couldn’t bear it. She couldn’t afford
it!
    What would happen to her and Brenda if
ever? Her younger sister was still schooling, just like her. Brenda
was a sophomore in college, taking up Bachelor of Science in
Business Administration at the Ateneo de Davao University (ADDU).
She, too, was schooling in ADDU, taking up Law, and she still had
more or less two years to painstakingly burn her brows before she
could be a lawyer.
    Surely, they need their father. They
already lost their mother, and losing another parent would be a big
blow that would be hard to deal with. Her family would surely
crumple and scatter to pieces.
    She sobbed harder. Her shoulders shook
as emotions washed through her, as tears streamed down her