A Reborn Bride Pearl Emerging from Dust by Sally Garcia

"Is there really nothing else we can do?" Calliope still sounded a little unwilling to

give up.

"I'm afraid not," someone replied. "From what you've described, using acupuncture to help with the pain and buy some time is already the best we can do. At this point, he shouldn't be focused on surviving, but on how to be comfortable."

"Yeah, with how bad things are, the pain alone could be enough to do him in."

"Exactly. If he can be made comfortable, maybe he'll last a little longer."

"I'm sorry, Callie, but we honestly don't have any better solutions."

"Callie, is the patient someone close to you?"

"We're all doctors here. We know how it goes. If there really was a way to help, we'd all do whatever it took."

"Yeah, we would. But sometimes there's just nothing more to be done."

to pass through the group. They'd talked through every option, but none of them could come up with

this kind of situation, there

I appreciate you taking the time," Calliope said

It's what we're here for. Sorry we couldn't

is make

all you

few more words

but she'd seen enough life and death to know these things happened. Sometimes, you just had to

thought, that she could at least help Hudson with the pain. Some patients didn't even have that. There were cases where people died simply because the

she left the hospital, Calliope called Lance. She explained the situation to

asked quietly "Callie, you can help with the pain, right? You can make sure these

use acupuncture for the pain, and there are some herbal remedies and warm baths that might help a bit, slow things down, ease the suffering, maybe

been saying he wants to go home anyway. That's where his roots

whatever time he has left at home. If you're there, you can help him with the treatments, and you won't have to keep flying

agreed. “Lance, are