Saved At Last
2 Years Later _I can’t believe myself! –said in disbelief. _It’s not your fault Duncan; the doctor said we have two options since I couldn’t help her either. First she can stay in the waiting list and her doctor said it could take too long. Second see if HE is compatible. _What are you going to do? The doctor told us she can’t wait too long, her nose is bleeding all the time and she had anemia once again, she’s getting worst! _I know, can you stay with her tonight, as I go talk to him? _Of course, she’s like a daughter to me, remember? _Thank you, I’ll be back in an hour or so. _Sure…I know it will be hard for you…but be strong for her. _I’ll always be Duncan! For her. – She kissed him on the lips in a friendly way and left. She was driving thinking about lots of things at the same time, she was scared but she couldn’t tell Duncan because he was even more scared than her.parked her car in front of the house and knocked on the door. _! What are you dong here? – He said shocked _I have to talk to you! _So…come on in… _NO! I prefer staying here by the door. _Why? Come onget in. – He said taking her by the hand. When he did that,crossed her arms and rage, despair, repulse, hate, anguish, all those horrible feelings were running in her veins just with the touch of his hand. _Do you know what ALL is? – She said stopping by his front door. _No! Why are you asking me? – He said confused. _Acute Lymphoblast Leukemia also known by ALL. Is the most common form of childhood cancer. It affects lymphocytes, a type of white blood cells. Leukemia cells accumulate in the bone marrow, replace normal blood cells and spread to other organs including liver, spleen, lymph nodes, central nervous system, kidneys and gonads. 3.000 children each year are found to have ALL, peak incidence occurs from 2 to 5 years of age, ALL affects slightly more boys than girls. It occurs more frequently among white kids than black; and also a kid who has ALL can have Down Syndrome…THANKS GOD MY BABE DOESN’T HAVE!!!! – She said all that fast and in despair sitting on the side-walk. _You have a baby? – He said sitting next to her. _No! – She said mad. _We have a baby,, she’s 2 years old…I madepromise me he wouldn’t ever tell you about her, and I hate myself for telling you about her but…she needs you. _I have a baby and you never told me? _Don‘t play the angry dad with me ok! You cheated on me when I was 8 weeks pregnant; you have no rights with my daughter. She’s sickand I need you to go to the hospital where she is and do a bone marrow match test. _She have Leukemia…Oh my Go!!! I’d just found out I have a daughter and now she’s going to die?! – He said standing up and shaking his had. stood up and slapped his face more than once. _My babe isn’t going to die! Get your ass on that hospital and do something useful to her…YOU OWE ME THAT ! – She yelled bursting into tears. _Sorry! – He said trying to hug her. _Do…Not...Touch…Me!!! And you are not sorry as I am now! Follow my car…I’m going to the hospital! went back to her car andran to his house, took his cars keys and his wallet and followed her ‘till she stopped at the hospital’s parking lot. He left his car and took ’s arm. _WHAT!? – She yelled. _What I’m gonna see when I get there? _The doctors are waiting for us… kept walking and they got in the hospital, she got alone in the baby’s room. _What happened? –asked holding her. _He’s here, outside with her doctor! _I’ll be outside if you need me, ok babe? _Thanks, tell him to get in! After a few secondsgot in the room, he looked atand saw pain in her eyes; he got close to the bed and caressed the baby’s face. _She looks so fragile… _She is now, but she’s a stronger and smart girl for her age. _She’s pale, is that normal? – He asked covering her. _Yeah…she’ll be able to go home tomorrow, there’s nothing they can do for her here, I’m gonna take her home and administrate her pain-killers there. _The doctor said Chemotherapy won’t be necessary in her case, so it means she’ll be fine, right? _No…she needs a Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant because she have the Philadelphia Chromosome Positive, ALL to be exact, she’s one of those very high-risk cases. _She’s gonna survive… _80% of the kids in her age can be cured. –said taking the girl in her arms. _When and how she got this sick? –said kissing the baby’s hand. _She got a cold andand I noticed she was too quite and too pale, we took her to the hospital and the doctor said it was just a cold, he asked for a blood test and asked us to stay there for the night just to make sure she was doing well with the antibiotics they gave her…but in the morning the doctor came to us and said she was very sick, they said she had Leukemia…well six weeks after that he told me that her case was worst than he thought. I did a bone marrow match test just likedid and we both don’t match hers…you’re our only hope , ‘cause she need a transplant now, the waiting list is too long… _I’m going to talk with the doctor now; I wanna do the test right now!!! _You have to be relaxed to the test, do you know how it works? _No, but I don’t care I just wanna do it! _I know you want to, but it’s painful and without anesthesia, they stick a niddle in the center of your back and take the sample to know if you two match. _I don’t care how it works I just wanna save her… - He stopped talking ‘cause he saw the baby opening her eyes. – …She’s has youreyes. _I know…now you better go, she needs to be rested and calm, can you tellto come here please? _Sure, I don’t wanna bother her…you’re gorgeous little princess. –kissed the baby and was about to leave the room. _She’s a fighter not a little princess. –said being rude with him. _I better go! left the room andgot in right after he left, he heldin his arms and whenopened the door he sawkissing’s lips. He got shocked and left without them seeing him. On the next daywent back home ‘cause now they were living with in London because of the baby treatments. Right after the baby left the hospitalwent to do the tests,only talked with him by the phone and 4 days after he did the testwent to pick the results alone, after 2 hours talking with the doctors and 3 hours walking on the streets alone like a lost person in the rain,was all wet when she stopped at’s door; she rang the door-bell and he appeared. _what are you doing in the rain? Get in! _I hate you! I hate you with my entire human been, you’re a disgusting person, and how could I think you would be able to help her? – She yelled. _What are you talking about? – He said confused. _You cheated on me, because of you I’m scared of being with somebody else ‘cause I think this person will cheat on me like you did! And now I’m more scared than ever ‘because my daughter will die! I HATE YOU, I REALLY DO, I DON’T WANT YOU AROUND HER…YOU DON’T DESERVE THE GIFT OF BEING HER FATHER, SHE NEVER NEEDED YOU AND NOW THAT SHE REALLY NEEDS YOUR HELP YOU TURN YOUR BACK TO HER JUST LIKE YOU DID TO ME BEFORE. – She kept yelling. _Are you talking about the test? –said chasing her on the street. _What do you think!? – She said turning around and staying face to face with him throwing the results on his face. _I’m sorry… _Your sorrys won’t save her, your sorrys won’t make me forget he pain I felt on the day I saw you with… your sorrys won’t make me forget the person I love the most in my life looks like the person who cause me all this pain…she can’t wait an year in the waiting list ‘cause they have more than 150 people before her, her doctor said she can survive at least 10 months, doing chemotherapy and taking more drugs that she’s used to take, she will lose her beautiful hair…she’ll suffer with all that and there’s nothing I can do for her. –said sitting on the sidewalk. _There’s nothing I can’t do either and I’m suffering just like you! _No you’re not! – She said pushing him and walking away again. _Let’s go inside…it’s raining! _I don’t care about the rain…and you’re NOT suffering like me! I saw her playing around our house in Liverpool, I saw her dressed like the Little Mermaid on her first birthday party, I saw her smiling and having fun in the playground, I heard her calling me in the middle of the night because she wanted to sleep with me in my bed…she was a bright smart girl for her age full of life and capable to have fun…NOW I only see my baby crying in pain, laid in a hospital bed, always quite, taking drugs that are too strong that make her sleep most of the time, God! I only saw her sick 4 times before we discovered the ALL… and now you look at me and say you are suffering too? You don’t know her and if I could find a way to make you forget she exists I would do it, because you don’t deserve a daughter! –said all that yelling at him on the middle of the street. _Fine, I hurt you and maybe, just maybe, I don’t deserve a daughter like Renna but I hate myself since the day you left me and I hate myself more now because I can’t help my own daughter…but she’s my daughter and I’m part of her life, I wanna be her father. _She already has a father figure, she lovesand he always took good care of her. _But I’m her father not… _So why can’t you help her? – She said crying and slapping his chest. – Why can’t you help her… grabbed her arms and held her in his arms really tight, the cars were passing by them on the street but they didn’t care. _You can hate me as much as you want… _I hate you…and I hate myself for loving you so bad… walked off still holding her in his arms ‘till they got on the side-walk,passed his hand on her face to dry her tears, looked deep in her eyes and kissed her, first she didn’t want to kiss him but then they were kissing a lot. andgot in his house kissing more and more, he took off hers and his clothes and when he got a condom did something unexpected. _We don’t need this!!! They had sex all night long and in the morningleft his house without talking to him.got in’s house and told him what happened between them on the other night. _Does he know why you had sex with him? – He asked sat with in his arms. _Of course not! Her doctor said if I have another baby with him the new baby will be able to save her, is 100% sure that they will match. _But you have to tell him about it! _I will, ‘cause I’m sure that only one night won’t get me pregnant! _You know you can do this in a hospital artificially, don’t you ? _Yeah…I’m going to have a shower and be right back to take her to hospital ok! kissed the little girl and went to take her shower, right after thatand her went to the hospital to make some tests on, and they spent the whole day there. At night leftwithand went to look forat his house. _! I was about to call you… _Well…I’m here now. – She said taking off her jacket. _I was thinking…and we should go talk with her doctors together tomorrow, what do you think? Just to make sure waiting is the only thing we can do. _No! We don’t need to go there! I have everything under my control! _I’m sure you do have, but I wanna be part of this… _I told you I have everything under my control so don’t worry… - She said kissing him. _And what about last night…we should talk about that… _I don’t wanna talk…I just wanna do it! She jumped on his lap and started to kiss him like mad, took off his clothes and not letting him thinking about they had sex right there in the living room almost with the door open. Whenfell asleepwent back home to be with her daughter, for 2 weeks she went back to his house every night just to have sex with him. And in one of the nights thatdidn’t appearcalled her and in her answer – machine was a message for him. _… if it’s you calling…is at the hospital with…go meet us there! turned off the phone and ran to the hospital. When he got there he sawholding. _Can I ask you what’s going on here? _had a bad reaction to one of her medications that’s all! –answered. _I’m not talking to you; I’m talking with the mother of my baby! _Sorry mate… _You and I are not mates! _Stop it ok!is fine now; they changed her medications because it was hurting her liver. I’m going to see her now you can come if you want. _Sure I’ll be there in a minute babe. left and whenwas going after hergrabbed his arm. _What? _What? Come on…I saw you andkissing for several times before, first you stole my daughter and now you want my girl too? What’s wrong with you man? _With me? What’s wrong with you? I’m only taking care of because I love her since the first momenttold me she was pregnant! And I’m not stealing you girl because as far as I know she’s only having sex with you to have another baby to saveand you more than me know that and also that we always kissed each other. So stop it ok! _She what??? gave him a bad look and went to’s room, after an hourgot in and stayed watchingplaying with. _, can you leave us alone? _Sure! – He said leaving the room. _We need to talk! _About what? _The new baby… _What baby? Are you insane or what? _told me…why didn’t you tell me? You know I would do it anyway. _I didn’t tell you because…I don’t know…maybe because still loving you is the most painful thing, because I look at my daughter and see you in her eyes every time I kiss her goodnight and now with a new baby I’m not sure… _So you are already pregnant? _Yes I am…I did a pharmacy pregnancy test yesterday…I admit I loved and hated at the same time these 2 weeks we’ve being together but I don’t wanna get hurt by you again… _I don’t wanna hurt youand I won’t! I love you…and I know I did everything wrong in the past, but I wanna be with you andas a real family. – He said taking the baby in his arms. _I’m not sure…you think we can start again? _Of course we can, you;; the new baby and me…can you trust me again? And give us a chance to start again? _I can’t trust you yet…but I want us as a family…I just don’t wanna be a fool again. _You won’t …I swear you won’t. huggedand,got in and they told him the news. 7 Months after thatandwere hospitalized. _Are you feeling ok? –asked holding her hand. _I’m a bit scared for; you will be with her during the surgery right? _Yeah, andwill stay wit you, so don’t worry everything will be ok. –kissed her on the lips like always and went to’s room. _Are you ready? –said caressing her face. _Yeah, I know I won’t be able to see the baby for long or but I’m really fine…I know she will finally be ok…so I’m happy. One of the doctors came near her and stuck a needle in the center of her back to make her feel less pain. got a bit scared because the niddle was a bit huge so he held tight’s hand. _They will be just fine…like you! – He said kissing her forehead. 2 Hours later the baby finally was born, they took the baby to wherewas and half-hour later they did the transplantation. On the next morning the doctor went to’s room to talk withand her. _Hey, how are you feeling today? – the doctor greeted. _I’m fine but I’ll only stay fine if you tell me about my daughter. – She said taking’s hand. _The girl react really well to the transplant and till now we had only good answers coming from her. _So that means she won’t need chemotherapy or drugs anymore? – asked. _Yes Mr.! Your daughter won’t need those treatments anymore; she will be just fine! _Thank you so much doctor, when we’ll be able to see our daughter? _In an hour or two…she’s still sleeping because of her surgery! But you can go see your baby now! _Thank you again, iswithnow right? –asked. _Yes, he’s the best Godfather ever; he stayed awake all night checking on her. andsmiled and the doctor guided them to the nursery room. _I’m gonna leave you both alone with your baby now, I’ll call you whenwakes up. _Thanks! –said greeting the doctor. The doctor left andkept looking at the baby sleeping. _Can you believe that after all the painful moments we’ve been trough witha new baby had to come to help her and make us parents for the second time? –said holding the tiny baby in her arms. _He’s really a blessed baby; if it weren’t for himwould probably die. Only a day of life and already had all this responsibility! _Well even if he wasn’t able to help her, he will be a bless the same way and loved the same way. _What will you call him? _I would like to call him. –said giving the baby forto hold. _What about? _So that’s it…he’s name will be. They both smiled and an hour later they went to see, the girl was getting better each day just like the doctors said. Two weeks after the transplant,was able to go home.,anddid a party for her when she got home; the little girl was now the girlwas used to see playing at her backyard. After all the bad moments,andwere finally happy together with their children, every 3 months do blood tests just to make sure the ALL is really gone, and every time they open the test results it’s saying always the same thing…that she’s cured. is also’s Godfather and he’s still living withand the kids,is trying hard to move out withbut the trusting part is taking him a lot of time to get it back…but they are getting along very well because they love each other and now they are really happy together knowing thatis finally well cause they could save the best for last. THE END