The Rough Tide

chapter 8

*Zara
I sat on the chair beside Ameera's bed watching her sleep, She'd been waking up on and off for a while now. The doctor had come in about thirty minutes ago to say the surgeon might take a little longer to come and reassured me that Ameera's on and off sleeping pattern was perfectly normal.
Then it occurred to me that I had seen Sadiq but I wasn't sure

"Abbas? Was Sadiq here?"

I turned to ask him as he was sitting behind me with Aneesa

"Yeah, he brought Aneesa and I to the hospital, he came to the house to see you and then we told him what had happened"

I turned back to Ameera nodding my head. Poor Sadiq ever since Khalid's death he'd become the father figure in Ameera's life, he pobably couldn't take it and left. My eyes began to fill up with tears as I thought of Khalid . I needed him so much right now but I didn't get the chance to think about it much because Mami came into the room. She'd gone to fill some paperwork at the hospital desk.

"Zara..." She said "...we will go home now and I'll come back with some clean clothes, food and some essentials that you might need"

"OK"

"Don't worry, ok? She will be fine all we need to do is keep praying for her"
She hugged me and then she kissed Ameera's forehead, the twins also came and hugged me goodbye

"Where's Rafik?" I asked

"I sent him to get the car"

"Oh ok then, bye" I said quietly

"Bye" they all chorused and left but shortly after the door closed, it opened again and I turned to see Rafik coming in

"You didn't think I'll leave without saying goodbye now did you?" He asked smiling

I smiled back and stood as he came over and kissed Ameera on the forehead before he turned to me and held me by the shoulders

"Be strong OK?, she's a fighter and she will pull through this"

" I will" I answered before he pulled me in for a hug an left.
I sighed and sat back down watching Ameera as she stirred a little , before going back to sleep.

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*ALWAN

"The girls name is Ameera, one year plus. Was diagnosed with B.A...

"...Biliary Artesia" Mahmud cut me short

"Sorry, Biliary Artesia..." I corrected myself "... so she was diagnosed with it after birth, she underwent a Kasai procedure after birth but it has failed now and she needs a liver transplant ASAP"

"OK, I'll let you take control of the Q and A and we'll see how it goes from there "

"Great, you are finally letting go of the reigns"

"Don't get too excited I'm just letting you hold on to one" he said flatly

" seriously Mahmud you..."

"That's Dr. Muhammad to you in the hospital" he cut me short again

"You know what? Just forget it"

"Im just trying to help out you know"

"Well you are being too hard" I grumbled

"Let's just go" he said dropping the topic as we made our way to the room of the little girl who needed the liver transplant

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New chapter, vote and comment please. In shaa Allah we will get to know more about biliary artesia in the coming chapters