Her voice was weak, “I was born with heart disease, for many years, heart failure, my father said that as long as I could find a matching heart I could live a long, long time, but it was too difficult to find a suitable heart, my father searched for many years to find a suitable heart, those people told my father that she was sick and would not live for a few years, and when she died, she could transplant her heart to me. So Dad adopted her, and for many years, she was with me during my loneliest and hardest days, but I was getting sicker every day, but not only did she not react, but she was getting better and better.”
She laughed slyly, “Then Dad realized that those people lied to him, she was not sick at all, she was healthy, she was just a child abandoned by her parents, that’s why they found her in my house, Dad did not want to do something illegal, but I was dying, he had no choice, because, only she could save me, so, when I fainted for the last time, Dad was in the car she was sitting in car and moved it.”
“When she died, none of her body was finished, Dad said it was an accident, and I kept implying that I was an accident, but I didn’t realize that the more time passed, the deeper she was in my memory, and the deeper she tormented me.”
Tears slid down from the corners of her eyes, “Don’t be wrong again, let the boy go!”
I pursed my lips, no wonder she reacted so much when she saw Blanca.
A phone call came in, it was Luna, I picked up the phone, there was some happiness on the other end, “Where have you been, kid? The check is done, the boy is crying at the moment, where are you, come and see.”
I hmmed and hawed, looked at Barbara in the hospital bed and spoke, “This surgery is not big, it won’t kill the boy, I have no choice, I just want my daughter to live well, if there was another way, I would not have gone this far.”
She cried some serious tears, I know she was very muffled, can only recruit the nurses, let them help me watch a little, I went to see Blanca.
Upstairs, Blanca finished her examination, her eyes red, and looked at me and said, “Auntie, it hurts here!” She pointed to the bone in her crotch, her eyes red.
The doctor is no bone marrow extraction, just took part of the blood to do the filter to see the results, I hugged her and spoke, “Mmmmm, I know, auntie buy you good food at night.”
Luna looked at me and then at the kid and said, “Clariana just came out of the ward, go check it out.”
I nodded and followed her along to the ward where the doctor was explaining something to my father and Clariana was lying on the bed with the anesthesia still in place.
Seeing that the doctor was leaving, I followed him out and called out to him, “Doctor, can I find out how the bone marrow and kidney transplants will affect the people who provide both?”
The doctor looked at me and nodded, “The extraction of bone marrow to bring up the blood stem cells is not much harm to the provider, only some pain, but the kidney transplant surgery, there is an impact, the human body, some things look like nothing, but if you really take, there will always be an impact, such as our cell phones, we have ten fingers, suddenly missing One, will not affect life and death, but you finally less one, so the action, will always receive the impact.”
I nodded, blushing a little, “So if a kidney is taken from a child, will she have any repercussions later?”
He nodded, “Naturally, it is there, it will not be fatal, but the physical quality is always not as good as the original.”
I do not continue to ask, what should be asked, and all clear.
Back in the ward, Blanca sat by the bed, looking at Clariana lying on the bed, her dark eyes all childish and innocent, Luna saw me and spoke, “What’s wrong?”
Samuel probably knew me, so he looked at Blanca and looked at me and said, “I’ve considered all the things to ask, the risks to consider, it’s not easy to find a donor, son, it won’t kill you, just take care of her more in the future, don’t blame yourself too much.”
How so?
It is fortunate that Blanca’s life will not be harmed, but after all, I have to hurt a child for no reason, and the self-condemnation in my heart spreads all over.
Clariana had just had chemotherapy and Blanca’s test results were still pending, so we had to wait in the hospital, but we couldn’t leave Blanca in the hospital all the time, so we thought we would have to let Jimmy take Blanca with him.
Barbara’s anesthesia was not ready until later, I went to see her, I saw her face was still a bit defeated, I told her about Clariana’s situation and Blanca’s situation, she breathed a sigh of relief and said, “It is good not to hurt the child’s life, but even if the operation is successful, there is still an observation period, if the cancer cells spread again within five years, then a second transplant will be necessary. If the cancer spreads again within five years, a second transplant will be necessary.
I thought about it and said, “Her parents treat her as a tool to make money, if I send her back, I am worried that in the future she will be forced to marry casually when she is older, my parents want to adopt her, let her and Clariana go to school together, adopted in the Lewis family name, in the future, if she is successful in school, she can also have a role, know how to choose their own life. She will know how to choose her own life.”
She froze, but it was rare to have a smile on her face, “This is good, to be raised in the Lewis family, is how many lifetimes to seek, you paved the way for her, the future is also much stronger than her back in that mountain hook, this is also considered that you repay her.”
I can only say so, I sighed, the heart also more or less relaxed a few points, this matter or wait for the test results out, after the surgery is completed, if everything goes well, the Lewis family will be one more child, I took Blanca back to the village, thoroughly and her parents clear, and let her with the family after a clean break.
Barbara raised her hand, stroked her heart, and said with some sadness, “If only I could have chosen that in the first place.”
I look at her, can’t help but feel heartbroken, know that their lives are traded for a fresh human body, she should have had an extra collapse this year!
After a moment of silence, I spoke, “Do you know something about Edward?” That day in the cattle pen, Emily and I said that some of the children in the village had not gone back since they came.
I don’t know if it’s what I think it is.
She tugged on the quilt, did not look very good, after a long silence, she spoke, “He is a heartless person, for money can do anything, under his hands, I do not know how many people have died.”
I frowned, “You haven’t met him, so why are you so sure that everything is related to him?”