DESIREE - NEW YORK
“ARE YOU SURE WITH your decision, Luis?” Desiree tightly held Luis’s hands in the hospital bed. She can hear her mother-in-law silently weeping in the background. Their baby Sofia Marie, a cute six year old child is sleeping soundly beside her grandmother. It was winter time in New York, but it was bleak because of the family’s sadness.
Luis is shaved, bald and thin, and weak, he was confined in the hospital for a few months now, and on hospital check-ups all year round – due to bone cancer.
“There is no hope, Desiree, you heard the doctor right? It’s kinda late. I just want to rest.”
Naipit ni Desiree ang boses niya, she cried in Luis hands, “We will do everything, Luis. Everything…”
“Nahihirapan na ‘ko, all these chemotherapy, I just want
