Two weeks had passed since Pearl’s scary bleeding episode when she started bleeding again. It was no longer the nose and skin bleeding, Pearl had started peeing blood as well. Jessica followed what had become her protocol. Her own clothes stained with her daughter’s blood, she made a call to Dr Smith to make her aware that Pearl would be coming in again. She knew from experience the difference her calls made. This hospital staff had time to prepare for Pearls arrival and even organise her transfusions before time. Picking up her daughter and the bag she kept packed for this very event, she left her house and headed to the hospital which will be her home for the next coming days. Flying through traffic towards the hospital had become a norm, she knew that route even in her sleep. In the hos
