Rose

Present Day

I lay comfortably on the leathery treatment couch as the linear accelerator rotated around my head, delivering the exact amount of treatment prescribed by Dr Myron.

The nurse who administered it to me was no other than the nurse who always followed him around.

Yes, the clingy one.

I've grown to get used to the therapy there at the hospital, Dad had always complained about the whole cost of the chemotherapy Miss B offered back at home.

The hospital was way cheap.

I usually come with Miss B for my chemoradiotherapy when she has the night shift at work. She works as an auxiliary nurse at a hospital.

Not City Hospital, like she'd be working here, I wouldn't let any other nurse attend to me.

My Dad comes with me to the hospital when he's off work as well.

Those two had to work their ass off to meet up with the hospital bills, so at times, I'm left at home alone when I'm back from the hospital. Playing fetch with Ozzy.

Talking to myself was beginning to be a habit for Rose

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