Siren Song Chapter 50

Published at 29th of December 2018 04:39:52 PM Chapter 50

Li Hua Dumont sat there looking at the scan of her brain . The little black and grayish lump on the screen with its tendrils were slowly stealing everything away from her, but she felt only calmness looking at the screen . This was not her first time facing this image, though it had grown and changed, she found herself still stuck in placidness . Like a pool of water before a pebble has been tossed in . As the doctor spoke she heard a faint ringing in the back of her ears, as if from far away .

"Ms . Dumont, I regret to inform you that you have a grade IV astrocytoma originating in your spinal cord that has aggressively spread to your brainstem, and is reaching towards your cerebellum . Due to the location and nature of cytoma surgical removal is not possible . we can however perform a fe measures to help delay the growth rate as well as ease with your daily comfort . "

"How long?" Li Hua asked the man in the white suit calmly explaining her death .

"Without treatment a few weeks at most, with twelve weeks or so . "

'Such a short amount of time . You never really were the patient type were you Hénri?' Li Hua reflected hearing that .

"We can offer treatment through nutrition, radiation, or through chemotherapy-"

"No chemotherapy, when I die, I will die as myself not a pale shade . I dont want to leave that as the last image in my daughter's eyes"

"The chemotherapy treatment would be more for treatment of your symptoms . "

"Hao Jin Ying has been providing excellent palliative care without the use of such things . I have also been injected with a dendetric cell vaccine to help boost my own body's defenses against the cancer's growth . I was originally diagnosed in 2016 . "

"Really?" The doctor turned to look at the woman sitting beside Li Hua with an appraising look . " I should confer with Ms . Hao about the things she has done while as your Personal Care physician for medical purposes . "

"The only thing that we would be able to provide then would be radiation treatment . In particular IMRD, which would target just the areas of the tumor . It would be noninvasive and will help to slow the progression of the growth as well as alleviate some of the symptoms through targeted degradation of the tumor . "

Li Hua nodded woodenly holding Hao Jin Ying's hand as if it were a lifeline keeping her from drowning .

"If I were to have sought treatment right after I was diagnosed, would I might have . . " Li Hua couldn't help finding herself asking .

The doctor's look softened hearing her trailed off question . He shook his head slowly, " it would only have prolonged it by a few years or so . "

'A few years . . ' Li Hua truly realized how precious a few years time could be, there was still so much she had wanted to see through .

"I see . Thank you doctor . " Li Hua thanked the doctor with a face devoid of any emotion .

"If you would like we could begin the first treatment later today or tomorrow if you would like . "

"I think I would like to clear my head for the rest of the day, and spend the day tomorrow with my daughter and son-in-law . I have so few left . . " Her voice became inaudible to the doctor at the last part, but not to Hao Jin Ying who sat beside her .

Beneath her exterior the doctor could still sense her sadness from years in the profession, he knew that she would need some time to process before taking action . "I understand, I will prepare for the day after tomorrow, I will exit now and give you a moment of privacy . Good day Ms . Dumont, Ms Hao . Effendi . " He bowed his head to Hakim before departing through the door leading to the hallway of the medical laboratory .

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