I woke up in the Children's Hospital. I looked around for a minute, then at my side, I saw a long wire, thick as a slinky taped to my side. Following that tube led me to a screen which I couldn't read from the bed. The rest was just more tubes, wires, more beeping machines, and more bags of disgustingly colored liquid. I was wearing An oxygen mask which had like 3 tubes sticking out of it. I wondered why mother wasn't In The room with me, usually sitting in a brown, faded leather chair. Just as soon as I was about to hit the call button on one of my many machines, my mother came in, her face masked with a sad smile. But I could see deeper. Under that silky smile, lay horror, pain, anguish, but above all, Love.
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An imperial affliction
Teen FictionI'm Anna, I'm 16, I was diagnosed with a rare form of leukemia when I was 13, and I decided to start a foundation for people who wanted to cure cholera with cancer.
