"He is half dead, my dear," the doctor said, his words like a sledgehammer that dropped and exploded their fragile hope up to this time and left Emma heartbroken and exposed.
The room appeared to darken around them, as if even the light was snuffed out and the family plunged into the bottomless pit of uncertainty and despair.
"When will he be out of coma, doctor?" Emma's trembling voice rose to a quivering, cracking under the weight of her emotions, and then tears welled up in her eyes like an overflowing dam, threatening to engulf her at any moment.
"I don't know, madam," said Doctor Ken in a measured tone with an undercurrent of commiseration, "recovery processes differ from person to person; some persons take six months before they regain consciousness, other persons may just take a
