"The elderly woman has many ailments, cataracts in her eyes, and the delay has been too long. Even if she undergoes surgery now, I can't guarantee that her vision will recover to what it was before."
"And what else?"
"There's also... signs of heart failure."
Gu Xia felt a jolt in her heart. Heart failure wasn't a joking matter; it could be life-threatening.
Before Gu Xia could ask anything, the female Doctor added another sentence, "Additionally, a malignant tumor has been found in her lungs."
Gu Xia listened in silence...
"Are you her granddaughter?" asked the female Doctor.
Gu Xia didn't make a sound, her emotions complicated. She had initially hoped to cure the old lady's illness so she and Xiao Mei could move out and live together.
Now, it seemed, the old lady might not even make it through the New Year.
