In My Desperate Time

After one week, I am discharged from the hospital.

During the hospital stay, I pick out a name for my daughter:

Penelope.

It means love that never dies.

But I guess I'm the only one who knows why I give her that name.

Penelope has yet to be discharged from the hospital, but now she can take her bottle herself. That's something!

The doctor gives her a checkup and tells me that if it goes well, Penelope will be transferred to the general ward in two days.

Since I can't see Penelope except in visiting hours, my mother and I go back to our hometown together.

On Monday afternoon, we rush over to see her.

Three days later, Penelope is transferred to the general ward. And I stay in the hospital so that I can take good care of her.

Seeing her increasingly round chubby cheeks, I feel extremely happy.

But my mother really worries about me.

"Jane, you've lost a lot of weight."

know I'm thinner than I was during

I decide to take care of Penelope myself even without being confined in a month. My mother wouldn't let me. If not for my tears and pleas, I wouldn't have been allowed to stay by her

I’m barely

the mirror, I'm even afraid to look at myself. I'm

I must hold on. If I fall apart, what

to persuade me to rest in the bed next to Penelope's after I've taken care of

Penelope has gained from

of the doctor in mind, I

day by day. It requires a lot of money to raise a

I have no

do is to get

to Penelope, I go to the job market for job seeking, regardless of the

don't want to be a

as I pick up the brush, I would

suddenly come to my

great pain,

it, my heart aches so much

if I didn't think

suddenly

be exact, he shows up with Hilda, Albie,

a family

side of the road and eating my lunch. I look