At the moment, Tiffany was wearing a hospital gown. She leaned against the wall, and walked forward little by little.
However, it seemed that her body was extremely weak. After just a few steps, her body swayed and she almost fell down.
Nelson quickly rushed toward her and reached out to hold her.
"Mom!"
Tiffany's entire body trembled. Her ice-cold hand firmly grabbed onto Nelson's hand.
The next second, she raised her head, and her eyes were filled with pleasant surprise.
"Nelson? You've come here to see me?"
Nelson's eyes were slightly teary as he spoke, "I'm sorry, Mom. I didn't know that you were ill. If I had known, I would have come to visit you earlier!"
"It doesn't matter!" Tiffany shook her head. "You were busy. At least you're here now!"
"Let me help you to your ward!" Nelson said.
Tiffany nodded. After she returned to her ward, she began to enthusiastically introduce some of her things to Nelson.
"This is delicious. Why don't you have a try?"
When Nelson took a look at it, it was actually just an ordinary piece of bread.
"What food do you like to eat? I'll buy you more."
"There's no need for that! It's good enough to have such a simple meal. Do you remember when we were living a hard life when you were little? There was once when you had cried out of hunger, and a kind man had given us two dollars. I then used the money to buy you this bread!"
Nelson nodded. How could he forget about the past?
During that period of time, Tiffany failed to disclose all details about their past. Truth be told, they would starve for several days.
Nelson felt that he might have starved himself to death at that time!
Tiffany failed to tell him that she had knelt down to that man to beg for that particular piece of bread. However, the man actually felt disgusted instead, and said that they were beggars who were blocking his way, proceeding to throw that piece of bread into the trash can.
Tiffany had picked the bread up from the trash can and torn the dirty parts, quickly handing it to Nelson.
She herself had secretly eaten all the dirty parts of
the bread!
As he thought of the past, Nelson's heart ached again.
"Mom, I'm sorry."
"Why are you apologizing for? I'm fine now. Fortunately, Miss Chilton helped me and arranged for such a good doctor for me."
Monique shook her head and replied, "It's nothing, Auntie!"
Later, after Tiffany chatted with Nelson for a while, the doctor entered for an examination, and Nelson came out of the room.
Nelson asked the doctor a question when he came out from the ward.
"My mother is still so young, so how could she suffer from such a serious disease?"
The doctor sighed and said, "This illness has nothing to do with age. Furthermore, when your mother was sent to our hospital, she was extremely weak. From what we understand, she was in prison for a few years, right?"
Nelson frowned slightly. The doctor hurriedly said, "Sir, please don't misunderstand me. I don't mean any harm! After our investigation, we discovered that during her years in prison, she had suffered a lot. As a result, her body suffered a lot of serious damage, which resulted in her illness!"
The doctor sighed again and said, "Now, the only thing we can do is to take good care of her! We will do our best!"
Nelson frowned as he asked, "She suffered a lot in prison?"
"What's the matter? Are you still in a bad mood?" Monique asked. Then, she added, "It's okay! I've already told the doctor to give Auntie the best treatment and try not to make her suffer!"
"Thank you!" Nelson said indifferently.
"You're welcome! I still have something to do, so I'll take my leave first. Why can't they let me have a good rest now that I'm back? If you need my help, you can contact my assistant!"
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