“The patient is not very well,” he admitted, “but it is not serious. We'll need to keep her under observation for a few hours, to see how she progresses. They have given him drugs that were not working for the problem he had and it has gotten worse. While it wears off and with proper intervention, I'd say you'll see improvement in about forty”eight hours, at the latest.
"When will he wake up?" the mother inquired.
“I couldn't tell her that anymore, but in her condition it would be better not to wake her. The pain you must be feeling must be excruciating while conscious.
Her stomach clenched at that. Unbearable pain that perhaps he could have prevented by taking her directly to his hospital, and not some unknown and random one. But he was supposed to have a headache. His head ached and nothing else. It would have made more sense in terms of symptoms to have been detected with a brain tumor than to have been hooked up to the dialysis
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People were still surprised when they saw such small feet on a woman higher than average. But it is that Mio did not enter that average. did not enter no stockings in general, because she tore them only by pulling them up her legs to jerks, and when came out to the street with the dresses to hair. Of this HE complained his sensitive skin, to changes in temperature, a condition suffered by all all parts of his body, except those tiny and ridiculous pinrels. Always the had hot. The feet of Mine they had stepped on he floor of the hell to the scamper by he edge of the pool in the height of summer, when the tiles were on fire. They were prepared for walk by the slabs of the kitchen being newly scrubbed. adored sink them in the sand of the beach and smile because you they did tickle. From then that Mine knew as torture them, and these they knew as resist. By it's, he new scenery No was nothing new neither special for they. Dancing to a song by Van Gogh's L
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Just thinking about the painful idea he had of her made him break down. and the only The way it occurred to her to elevate herself was pleasing those who were supporting. He crouched down so the onlookers wouldn't see him sticking his thumbs between the strips of the thong. Far of the constriction of their hips, allowed that slowly down her long legs. Landed on ankles though he did not stay there long. Mio took the piece of cloth and raised it between the fingers index and thumb, shaking it in the nose inflated of Caleb. One of the guys whistle. "Boy, can't you see that she's not a little girl for you to have to pick her up?" before of midnight? notice in the panties that HE places... That is only worn by a woman. Why don't you throw them to see who catches them, baby girl? As the bouquets of flowers in the wedding. Mio acknowledged the idea with a wink, as Caleb's corner left. getting darker and darker, like in anime drawings. he threw a last
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Caleb dropped a laughter deep, snores and dark, that naked to Mine of fur. “Believe me, Yuri. Yeah I will leave carry by my emotions, for begin, there would be shattered the expensive of you boyfriend in how much ha started to provoke me AND going around, your sister wouldn't be sitting at that table where they haven't made other stuff that despise her Mine drink saliva. “Yeah so much tea bothers that the despise, by that I have you left alone defending her? “Was as Yeah saw to his sister crossing of arms”. By that the you despise you same? “Because HE has that defend she he snapped, angry”. Equal that she has show that you want to work with us, not accept a position that you have thrown to the face for hesitating your mother. Just like she should deserve not to me I don't even have to think about including it in the template. So far, he hasn't done anything show that you are responsible and serious, and that has nothing to do with me despising her As