5) dad's last night at the hospital :(

i slept next to him on a reclining chair, watching the
blood pressure/heart rate monitor. i kept telling him i'm
taking him home. it's his birthday the next day.

i kept looking at it blink the whole night. his readings were
way below the "safe" bracket. i kept praying it would stabilise.

when i woke up at 5.30am, 3 nurses were standing around him.
my heart dropped. he had stopped breathing. they told me his heart was still beating but very slow.
i quickly called peng soon & went back to talk to dad. i watched the heart beat monitor graph flatten.
he was gone.