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The next day, Kousei began whimpering inside the ICU until he began screaming in pain again. His head was throbbing so badly and his breathing began to be too shallow. He tried his best to breathe but he just can't as something deep on his throat had been stopping him to breathe easily. The nurses stationed near him immediately called for his doctors to help him after they saw his current condition.
Dr. Lee and Dr. Gareth entered his room to check him and more so, they needed to hold him down as he's having seizures again. Doctor Gareth injected anti-seizure medicine onto his patient quickly.
They waited for it to stop after they put towel over his mouth. When it stopped, they took some blood to test it out. Both doctors had to stay strong for the sake of all their sick patients. It wasn't just Kousei whom they're treating after all.
A few days later, they found out that he still have a lot of cancer cells in his body and he's not responding well to chemotherapy which means, he would need to keep drinking stronger medicines. His fever had gone down and his low white blood cells recovered after three days in the ICU. He was soon moved inside his large room in the VIP Ward.
The next day, his doctors took another scan of his head inside the MRI. It showed the tumor that his surgeon wasn't able to remove and after that, there seemed to be another strange tumor growing on his brain that's located on the frontal lobe.
"Can we not really remove the tumor?" Dr. Lee asked. "All of it?"
"I think the tumor that was left inside him actually shrunk after he kept on taking the chemotherapy pills and radiation therapy, Dr. Lee," he told her. "Even so, look at this new mass of cells at his right brain. I think a new tumor's growing."
"That's definitely dangerous," Dr. Lee agreed with him. "It looks small but it's hurting his frontal lobe."
"The cancer cells in his body became immune to the chemotherapy pills we're giving him. We have to move to something more powerful but it will have a lot of nasty side effects," he answered them. "We'll have to stop giving him radiation therapy and give him stronger chemotherapy."
"Are you sure about it?" she asked him. "The boy may not be able to carry the pain it will give him. He's very exhausted."
"I'm sure about it," he answered her. "It has to be removed via surgery."
Arima Kousei was asleep on his bed when Dr. Gareth had informed his father about his current situation. As always, Takahiko wanted to keep things in secret and so, he closed the door of his son's room while he was talking to his oncologist. It does hurt a lot but he had to accept that his son needed another dangerous surgery.
"There's another tumor growing on your son's brain, sir," he told him. "It has to be removed before it affects your son's vision."
"How did...," he cried out. "Why did another tumor grew out of his brain?"
"We're still investigating about that sir, but we suspect that it was due to his over exposure to the radiation we're giving him as treatment sir," he answered him. "We have chosen to finally end it and give your son stronger chemotherapy pills."
Takahiko clutched the doctor's collar tightly due to his increasing anger that the radiation therapy they gave him had made another tumor that had been making his son suffer. As much as he wanted to punch the doctor in front of him and his fists were itching to throw it on him, he controlled his anger.
"He'll survive, right?" he cried out to him. "I can't bear seeing my son suffering so much."
"Forgive me, sir," he told him. "We can't immediately assure you that your son would return as what he was before. We'll do our best to save him."
"Thank you!" he sobbed. "I love my son so much!"
The next day, Kousei was feeling so groggy. His world was just too blurry that he can't seem to see any colors at all. To him, everything was black and white.
"Dad!" he cried out. "Dad!"
"Son, what's wrong?" Takahiko asked. "Are you alright?"
"Dad, what's wrong with my eyes?" Kousei asked him. "Why... Why is everything gray?"
"Son, go to sleep," he told him. "Your eyesight will soon go back to normal, okay?"
Kousei can't even imagine how much his body was torturing him. "What's wrong with me?"
"You...," Takahiko don't even know if he has to tell him but he knew he had to tell him. It wasn't his body that has a problem after all. It's his son's body that's in dire situation. "Another tumor grew in front of your brain. It's the reason why your eyesight looked strange right now. It will be removed today and be rest assured, you'll recover."
Kousei felt really hurt by that news but instead of feeling too much fear, he knew he had to be brave to face it.
"I'll recover, dad," he promised him while his tears cascade down his eyes. "I don't want my life to end, yet."
As much as Kousei doesn't want to have another surgery to remove the tumor out of his brain, he understood that he had to receive it. He's afraid but he's still happy even if he's in that situation since his father had expressed a lot of his support to him. He appreciated it so much that he was so thankful for his father that he never left him alone.
At the time he was already inside the operating room, Takahiko remained outside and just watched the surgeons do their jobs out. Even with the small window from the double doors of the operating room, he was able to observe that they placed a breathing mask on his son's nose.
Kousei quickly went to sleep after that. Blood bags hang on all sides around the doctors and at his son who's lying on the operating table.
Seto Hiroko and Arima Sui arrived hours after the operation began.
Meanwhile, they were able to see that Takahiko was too exhausted and worried. They're anxious as well but they don't really know how much pain he's experiencing. It was his son who's inside the operating room after all.
To appease his pain, Arima Sui gave his troubled son some water. "The doctors here are professionals in their field, Takahiko. Your son will get out from it safe and sound."
"I lost my wife," he told him. "I never expected to experience the same pain I had again when she was the one who was in the hospital."
"Kousei's going to be safe." Hiroko gripped his white blouse tight. "We can't lose him."
A few more minutes later, Dr. Matthew Fuji, an American- Japanese doctor went out of the operating room to talk to Takahiko and to his patient's family who were waiting for the news to come out. He's still in his blue scrubs and so, they immediately knew that he was the one who operated on his son.
"Are you all Kousei's family?" he asked them. "I need to talk only to his immediate family."
"Yes, we are," Takahiko answered him. "You're Kousei's surgeon, right?"
"I am, sir," he told them. "The patient, Mr. Arima Kousei, is safe and sound. He's resting inside the room for a while and would be brought back to his room."
Takahiko was still very worried. "Have you already removed the tumors on his head, doctor?"
"Yes, we do, sir," he answered him. "We were able to remove the one inch brain tumor on his head."
"Thank you, doctor," he told him. "Thank you for saving him."
"We'd still need to keep observing him as the first tumor on his brain may be slowly getting smaller now but still, the tumor is still there," he informed him. "You can talk to Kousei's oncologist if you have any other questions."
Takahiko hugged Sui tightly. He was just so happy that his son had got out of the operating room successfully. "My son's safe. He's still with me."
"I told you that your son will survive," Sui told his son with a huge smile on his face. "You may have to wait for a few hours though. Kousei may wake up tomorrow."
"I'm ready to wait," he told him."I'm just so happy that he survived another surgery!"
"Dr. Brown and Dr. Gareth will be informing you more about your son's condition," Dr. Matthew told him.
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