80 Percent Chance of Death

Chapter 25

Niall's POV

        I fell asleep a little ago, but my nap only lasted for about an hour. It's hard to sleep in hospitals to be honest. Between nurses and doctors checking on you every hour, the constant beeping of machines, and cries of other hospital patients in pain, it's hard to get any rest around here. I'm tossing and turning when Dr. Thompson walks in to check on me. I struggle to sit up, but I try to anyway. "Hi Dr. Thompson." Dr. Thompson looks at me with a sad look on his face. "Harry told me that you know about your stomach cancer." "Yes, he came in here and talked to me about it a few hours ago."  Dr. Thompson sighs loudly. "Niall, we need to discuss how we're going to get this tumor out of you and about chemo as well."  I look at him and say"Then let's talk about it."

        Dr. Thompson then starts talking. "Well as you know you have a large tumor in your stomach, which is causing all of your stomach pains as well other pains in your body. The tumor is near your intestines and is going to be hard to remove, but it's not impossible." I can feel panic rising inside of me and Dr.Thompson can tell I'm about to have an anxiety attack. He grabs my hand and reassures me that he'll do everything in his power to make sure that I walk out of this hospital cancer free. I thank him and he walks out of the room and says he'll be by again as soon as he can. He normally checks on me twice a day, sometimes more if I'm having a bad day.

        Even though I'm trying to be positive, there isn't much of a silver lining in this situation to be honest. There's at least an 80 percent chance that I might die in surgery. I don't know how I'm going to tell Harry about how large my tumor is. I think I'm just going to keep it to myself until I have to tell him.  Harry has enough on his plate and he's been so good to me since I first came to the hospital. I don't know how I'd be able to tell him that I'm probably going to be in here for at least 2-3 months. It makes me feel like burden to all of the lads, especially Harry. I sigh and look out the window at the night sky in the hopes that the stars will guide in the right direction on how to tell four of the most important people in my life that I might not make it out of here alive.

Hope you guys like this chapter. :) -Mary