In My Desperate Time

“All the parts below the patient’s right knee suffered necrosis and need to be amputated. Her head also went through serious
damage. Nobody could guarantee the consequence of the operation. After the family member signed, we could do the
operation.”
This is another information that almost makes me faint.
But soon I force myself to calm down.
At least, my mother is still alive, isn’t she?
I sign with tears and pay the operation fee. The doctor begins to do the operation for my mom. I sit outside of the operation room
blankly, feeling that my life has already collapsed.
Someone should have recognized me. When passing by me, they take out the phone, looking at me and the screen.
I am already numbed. I don’t even have the mood to pick up my phone that keeps shaking in my bag.
The operation goes for four hours. When the doctor comes out, he also sweats profusely.
“The patient’s operation went well. She should wake up soon.”
The doctor’s words make me feel relaxed.
I go into the ward. My heart feels bad when I see my mother’s empty right leg. With mom’s temperament, it is hard to imagine
how she would act when she wakes up and sees herself like this.
Most importantly, mom loves dad so much. If she finds out that dad already passes away, she would definitely not be able to
bear it.
I lie on my mom’s bed and sleep for a night. I don’t see her wake up, so I go back to their place and bring some clothes to the
hospital.
When I walk to the corner of the hospital, I bump into a person.
Frank?
“Why are you here?” I ask in surprise.

“Mom and dad ran into something like this, of course I need to check it out.” Frank glances at me contemptuously and walks into
the ward.
When he reaches the ward, I hear him say “mom”.
Does mom wake up?
I scurry into the ward and see mom just open her eyes blankly. She glances around.
“Frank, it’s nice that you’re out.”
She talks to Frank happily, ignoring me completely.
I see her struggle to get off the bed and hurriedly stop her.
“Mom, don’t get down.”
“Who’s your mother? I don’t have a daughter like you!”
Mom looks at me in disgust. Seeing that she is about to get off the bed, I hurriedly says, “Mom, don’t move. You right leg is
amputated.”
Mom is stunned for a while. After a long time, she turns down the blanket and try to touch her right leg.
She is petrified completely.
“From now on, I am a cripple. Without any child, and a cripple. Heh.”
Mom sits right there and her face is filled with despair.
But there is a truth that is even harder for her to accept. I don’t know how to say it.
Eventually, however, mom asks it.
“Where’s your father? Where is he?”
“Mom, dad is already gone, otherwise, I can’t come out.” Frank had a conscience after all. He shed tears sadly.
“Gone, gone...”

Mom murmurs and passes out with her eyes roll upward.
During the time after this, I handle dad’s funeral while taking care of mom in the hospital. My phone’s battery is already dead, but
I don’t even have the mood to charge my phone. Although Frank is out, he seems to be out for wandering. He cares about
nothing at all, but mom finally has the motivation to live on after seeing him.
As for me, I am so busy taking care of her, but at the end what I get is mom’s hate.
I already lose the mood to argue with her.
Now the family has become this way, I don’t want to hurt my mom anymore.
After spending three days in the hospital, mom asks to be discharged from the hospital eagerly. I have no choice but to handle to
procedure for her.
When I just walk out of the ward, I immediately see Frances who stands by the door with a gloomy face.