...coma

Vivian arrived at the hospital with some minutes to spend before she was on her to work. There haven’t been any news so far, but there was comfort in knowing that her mother was not at any risk after the surgery. The doctors have been repeating the same thing, saying she entered a coma and it would take a while for her to come out of it, but she was fine. They only thing Vivian could do was pray and hope she comes out from coma very soon.

She greeted everyone she knew at the hospital as with her newest tradition and walked into the ward. The curtains were down and it was very quiet, the only news that could be heard was of that of the machine monitoring her mother’s heart rate and the gentle hum of the air conditioner, the nurses had not made full rounds yet so she decided to draw the curtains letting in light into the dark room.

She grabbed a bowl on the bedside table and walked over to the basin in the room to fill the bowl with water. She returned back and sat by her mother on the