Ashley hurriedly walked towards Ward 3B. She remembered when her grandmother complained about stomach pain. She had said that she felt hot inside. Everyone thought it was because of her food intake.
There were days when her grandmother worriedly told Ashley that she suspected Ashley's mother had wanted to kill her with food. But Ashley and her father had made sure her food had no pepper or anything spicy that may upset the stomach.
Some nights when Ashley went home late after work, her grandmother was wide awake. When Ashley asked and probed, her grandmother said she couldn't sleep but did not elaborate. During one of the nights, her grandmother cried out for help, saying there were little people pulling her legs. It brought chills to her bones, and Ashley had thought her grandmother was hallucinating.
Ashley spoke to her father and aunties about it. They had wanted to bring her grandmother to the doctor's but she refused each time until that fateful day, when she could no longer stand the pain. Her grandmother still refused to go to the hospital and had wanted to die there and then but her aunties managed to coax her to see a doctor.
When they met the doctor, he said that her grandmother had a tumor in her stomach which was the size of a fist, causing internal bleeding and pain. They didn't know she had been passing motion with blood and her grandmother probably didn't realize it. The doctor gave 2 options. One was to leave the tumor and she would bleed ever so often, while the other was to remove the tumor.
"The tumor probably started growing more than 4 years ago." the doctor said. "But with her age, she may not be able to handle the surgery. At the same time, she may bleed to death if tumor stayed in her." he added.
That was when Ashley realized, it wasn't because of spicy food. It was the tumor.
This is my second part entry to @Ozzyy 's Stories in Series contest which has been extended to September 19, 2020.
Lead image by Marcos Paulo Prado on Unsplash.
So sad... i almost cry here..feel pity for her grandmother. ðŸ˜ðŸ˜