Margaret, we need to move you to the operating room right now,” Dr. Vance said, her tone shifting to one of clinical urgency. “The blood work shows your hemoglobin levels are dropping. We are looking at a massive, life-threatening hemorrhagic event if we don’t remove the mass immediately.”
“No,” Margaret wept, closing her eyes tight. “Let me stay. If
there is no baby, I don’t want to wake up anyway. Let it take me.”
“Margaret, listen to me,” Dr. Harrison said firmly, taking both of her hands again. “You have spent your whole life showing how much love you have to give. This tumor didn’t create that love; you did. Your heart is real. Your capacity to be a mother is real. Don’t let this tragedy be
the end of your story. Fight for your life, so you can give that love to the world in some other way.”
His words pierced through her despair, hitting a tiny, stubborn spark of resilience that had kept Margaret alive through decades of disappointment. She looked into the young doctor’s eyes, saw the genuine desperation to save her, and slowly, weakly
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