738 Head Injury (1/2)

”What's going on?” she cried out.

No one really paid attention to her and soon she was pushed out of the room. She looked at Ah-Si who came back after making the call and held his arms asking, ”Ah-Si, something is wrong. Something is wrong with Darren. What to do? They are not saying anything...”

Her voice was shaky and she was constantly talking without making much sense.

Suddenly, a doctor in a white coat came out and asked, ”Were you with the patient when he fainted?” Nora nodded her head in a daze. ”By any chance, did you notice something strange? For instance, was his eyes focused?”

Nora thought back to how Darren had actually held the bed to find his way around to Xiu's side and promptly replied, ”He was having trouble with vision. I'm sure he could see it clearly because he took the help of the hospital bed to navigate around the room.”

The doctor's face was grave now. Ah-Si asked, ”Doctor, is everything alright?”

”When the patient originally came, he had an injury on his occipital lobe. It wasn't major but it wasn't minor either. Despite that injury, he continued to move around and that had aggravated his brain injury. Occipital love is responsible for our vision, either its color, light, or movements.” He took a pause to observe Nora's and Ah-Si's faces that gone pale and slowly added, ”We suspect there might be a blood clot that's why he had a seizure. We'll have to immediately perform a surgery.”

”But he'll be alright? Right?” inquired Nora expectantly.

The doctor gave her a small smile, ”We'll try our best.”

Nora held the doctor back saying, ”No, don't just say that. You have to make sure he is fine.”

Ah-Si pulled her back while the doctor left to arrange for the surgery. Nora who had been holding herself back, now finally cried as she asked, ”Ah-Si, what am I gonna tell Xiu? What if she wakes up and asks me where is her husband? What will I tell her? What can I say to her? That I couldn't even take care of her husband while she was unconscious? What to do?”

Ah-Si held her tightly and wanted to say something but actually had no words to say. He didn't know how to offer her support when he was himself on the verge of breaking down. His relationship with Xiu might be of blood but he got to know that recently. As for Darren, he knew him for years. Darren had always been there for him without any question.

So, knowing that Darren's condition wasn't good, he was really lost.

”Bro!” Ah-Si called out in a choked-up voice.

Xin Xiaoli looked at Nora's crying figure and asked again, this time a bit forcefully, ”Tell me what is going on?!”

Ah-Si immediately related everything that the doctor said and Xin Xiaoli was stunned to his place. Darren was just as important to him as he was to his younger brother. They had been friends for years. And now he was also his sister's husband.