After Mom's Lie Delayed Her Daughter's Rescue, I Went on a Rampage

Just before my daughter was wheeled into the operating room, the doctor casually asked, “She hasn’t eaten anything this morning, right?”

I was about to shake my head when Mom smiled and answered for me. “She has. I saw her drink a bottle of milk.”

Everyone froze.

My daughter had congenital heart disease. After waiting a full five years, she had finally found a matching heart.

My husband and I went to pay the surgery fees, asking Mom to watch her in the hospital room for a little while.

As long as the preoperative tests were clear, our daughter could go into surgery.

All the tests had gone well. The doctor was only asking as a matter of routine.

But Mom had fallen back into her old ways again.

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