Smith choked up and asked, "Can he still wake up?”
The doctor said, "The dose of the sedation that we had injected him with is very small. If there is nothing unexpected, he should be waking up in another hour o r so. Your family can go in to accompany him and spend time with him."
Smith nodded with flushed red eyes. The doctor patted his shoulder and said comfortingly, "You can g o in now. I won't bother your family here any longer. Just press the call bell if there’s anything, and I will come over immediately."
"Okay."
With the doctor gone, the ICU, which originally had very high requirements for a sterile environment, was no longer imposing any restrictions. This meant that the patient in the ward had started to go with the flow.
Smith took his wife and daughter into the ward. His son, who was lying on the hospital bed, was still unconscious, but it was clear that he was now in a very poor condition, and he looked bloodless, pale, and thin.
Smith's wife soon lost control of her emotions, and she cried and spread herself out on the edge of the hospital bed as she held her son's hand hard, choked u p, and said, "Jimmy, promise Mommy that you will get
better. I cannot live without you..."
Smith quietly wiped a handful of tears and choked up as he said, "Jenny, we're losing Jimmy. You have to accept this reality..."
"No..." Jenny shook her head and said, "I will not accept it! No one is going to take my son away from m e, not even God!”
Smith said helplessly, "Jenny, we have already exhausted all the means available to us in this world... What other solution can there be even if you refuse to accept it?"
Jenny seemed to have generally lost her mind as she said, "A good friend of mine knows of a psychic! That psychic lives in Arizona, and it is said that she is not only psychic, but that she is also proficient in some kind of Mexican deism. I’ll invite her to come over now!"
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