TWENTY
The surgery was the following Tuesday. I sat with Sara back at the guesthouse on Wednesday afternoon as she told me about the previous day’s events. She wound up sleeping in the on-call room overnight. There had been complications—additional tumors found closer to his pelvic bone. It was possible the diagnosis had come too late, and that cancer had already spread. The secondary tumors also had to be removed and sent for testing.
Johnny had ending up losing a lot of blood and came around with horrible pain in his hips. Jayden had specifically asked Dr. Fong not to discharge him until he and Sara were off work.
Sara paced for a while, and finally a car pulled up outside. I watched as Jayden helped Johnny through the door.
“Are we headed to the bed or sofa?”
“Sofa please,” Johnny
