At the clinic gate, a 7-year-old collapsed, crying, “Mommy has been sleeping for three days, please save them.” The doctor rushed to help the newborn twins, but as he lifted them, his hands shook. Underneath the babies was a handwritten note from the mother that made the doctor freeze in terror…
was scaled back. By midmorning, a nurse came to fetch me.
When I walked into the ICU, the rhythmic beeping of the monitors felt like a strange, mechanical lullaby. Delfina looked incredibly frail, her skin matching the color of the white sheets, tubes snaking from her arms. But her chest was rising and falling on its own.
