Chapter 57: At The Hospital

Melissa's POV Later in the evening, I left for the hospital. I shouldn't have told the doctor about my fear. I shouldn't have told him I don't want my family to involve. But how could I have kept it from my family? It has been 2 months since I was diagnosed with stage 4 blood cancer back in Germany. The exact illness that took my mom's life. My mom didn't make it alive despite treatments and surgeries. How would I make it? I already give it up since the doctor said I have a few months left but I should do well and come for treatment because of pain.  What pain was much more than lying on the sickbed while counting your days slipping out of you every single minute?  Instead of yielding to treatments, I'd want to endure the pain out here in the world while I make the little time I have left worth living. I decided to do those things I didn't have the chance to do. Wasn't it pathetic that I wasn't as lucky as my Mom? She was fortunate to die in the arms of her lover. Since I couldn't have