The Destiny 2: Extraordinary Love

A Little Bite

Yuan looked at his father who was lying weakly on the hospital bed. The middle-aged man looked helpless with an infusion hose and oxygen attached to his body.

Sadness spread into Yuan, guilt enveloped his heart.

"My husband." Ana walks into the treatment room accompanied by Rachel.

"How is he doing?" Rachel asked her niece.

"The doctor said that my dad had hypertension, but we need to wait for Liam's doctor to know more about his condition, because only Liam's doctor knows the medical records of my dad, so he knows best how dad is doing right now." Yuan replied, The man's bead saw his crying mother holding his father's weak hand.

"That's it." Rachel muttered.

Shortly thereafter, a cell phone rang out from Rachel's bag. The middle-aged woman then took her mobile phone, seen on a mobile phone screen a call came in from Nana.

"Auntie pick up the phone first." Said Rachel who then went out of the treatment room.

Yuan stared at his aunt's departure for a moment, then turned his gaze back to his mother who seemed to have stopped crying, but still remained faithful to hold his father's hand.

"Mom."

Ana did not answer the call from her son, Yuan could only hear the sound of her mother's breath.

"Sorry, this is all— wrong Yuan." Her speech.

"Now I'm sorry? Where were you yesterday?" Ana asked, turning to look at her son.

"Do you think your dream is bigger than your own parents' expectations? Decades we've had high hopes for you, but all that's been lost just because of your dreams? That's funny, isn't it? Imagine what if you were in our position. It does look— if we're selfish with you Yuan, but all of this is for your own good. One thing you have to understand, no parent wants their own children to suffer."

'What if you're in our position?' The words Ana had just said reminded Yuan with the advice of someone, 'Have you tried to position yourself as them? Why don't you try to see it from their point of view? Instead of going from home and running away from trouble, it was very childish, and the Yuan I knew was not like that.'

Yuan exhaled his heavy breath, the man was seen lowering his head even deeper.

"Excuse me— Ah madam Gavin, forgive me, I'm late to come." Doctor Liam said when he had just entered the treatment room.

Ana looked at the doctor with a short smile.

"It doesn't matter, can Liam's doctor check him out?"

The doctor nodded, then walked towards the bed where Ray was still lying unconscious.

"How's it?" Ana asks when she sees Liam's doctor has finished checking on her husband's condition.

"I saw from the results of the examination of the doctor who had handled the chairman Ray, his blood pressure was quite high, which means he had hypertension. But now, his blood pressure had started to drop. Fortunately the blood pressure that rises is not too high, if that happens, chairman Ray may be able to have a stroke, heart attack, and more severe can lead to death. I say this directly because I hope, from now on, you and your family are as good as possible to oversee the health of Chairman Ray, starting from his diet, stress and emotions." Said Doctor Liam.

"But the doctor, doesn't my husband have a history of high blood pressure? Why would he suddenly get hypertension like this?" Ask Ana.

Doctor Liam looked at Ray for quite a while, a sigh sounded from him, Doctor Liam again turned to look at the wife of the chairman of the TNP company with his own eyes.

"You certainly don't forget the condition of Chairman Ray who only has one kidney right?"

"What's? Dad— dad only has one kidney?! Mean what? Mom— why did mom never tell me this? No no, I mean— why do I as his son not know this?" Yuan asked, the young man seemed to be hit hard when he learned a fact he had not known for decades.

•••

"What did your mother say? What happened to Chairman Ray? Is Yuan okay?" Rose asked who looked worried.

"Take it easy Rose." Whisper Yana.

They were waiting for Nana who just finished calling her mother.

"Uncle Ray was hit by HTN, but now his condition is stable." Nana.

"Lalu— what about Yuan? She looked so surprised, was she okay?" Ask Rose again.

"He's fine." Answer Nana.

"Thank God." Mumbled Rose.

•••

"Young master Yuan doesn't know yet huh?"

"Nobody ever told me this. Mom—"

"Yuan, ask yourself. Have you ever tried to see and recognize your parents more deeply? You'd rather say that we're selfish and attach importance to your own desires." Said Ana, interrupting the words of her son.

Ana sighed for a moment, then turned her gaze to doctor Liam who looked awkward with this situation.

"I'm sorry you had to see this commotion Doctor Liam. Please continue your explanation of my husband's health." Ana.

Doctor Liam smiled stiffly. But then, he began to resume his explanation which had been delayed for a moment.

"Chairman Ray does not have a history of HTN, because the hypertension he is experiencing at this time can be caused because chairman Ray only has one kidney. So a brief explanation like this— people who have one kidney can indeed live normally, but that's as long as he keeps the right diet and healthy life."

"Because— people who have one kidney are more susceptible to HTN, especially if their diet and life are less noticed. I'm worried, probably lately, that Chairman Ray's diet has been under-noticed and the effects of excessive stress. It could all trigger the occurrence of hypertension that chairman Ray is experiencing at this time, because before, his health looks fine."

"I hope, in the future— you pay attention to the condition of Chairman Ray more than before. Because it's like this, I'm worried that there will be bad things that we don't want. It's not a precaution, but a temporary delay so that those worries don't happen too soon." Doctor Liam concluded his explanation.

"What doctor do you mean?" Ask Ana who does not understand at the end of the doctor's explanation.

"It is likely that Ray's head will lose his kidney function or kidney failure. We can't avoid it, we can only postpone it so that the possibility doesn't happen quickly." Answer Doctor Liam.

Ana felt her body relax instantly, the middle-aged woman's eyes felt blurry as her tears began to accumulate in the eye peluk.

"Mom." Yuan supported his mother's body which looked like it wanted to fall.

"I will try my best to continue to monitor and maintain the health of Chairman Ray. Then excuse me."

"Thank you Doctor Liam." Yuan.

Doctor Liam walked towards the exit of the treatment room, he shifted the door, when the door was open, seen Rachel who was standing in front of the door since.

"It's good to see you again, Rachel." Doctor Liam said as he closed the door to the treatment room.

Rachel smiled, though,

"How are you?"

"Miyas? She's doing just fine. Now he works at a university hospital. Ah yes, he said— he met your son, his name if not mistaken—"

"Daisy?"

"Right, Miya said— she looks a lot like her father." Doctor Liam said.

"They know each other? Daisy never told me." Rachel.

"They were quite close as a guidance nurse and a nursing academy student."

"That's it."

"Em— I have to go back to my room, see you." The pamphlet of Doctor Liam who then left passed from before Rachel.

✍ This story is just fictitious. Sorry if there are similarities in the names of characters, places of events or events that occur.✍