CHAPTER 4: The Discovery That Shocked Everyone
Doctors sprinted back into Ethan's room.
The missing parasite had migrated into the tissues near his airway, cutting off his breathing.
Working frantically, the team managed to remove it just in time.
Ethan survived.
A week later, he walked out of the hospital holding Sarah's hand.
Before leaving, Dr. Harris gathered the staff.
"The lab confirmed these were rare parasitic worms contracted from contaminated water."
Sarah looked at Ethan and shivered.
If she hadn't touched his jaw one more time...
If she had simply sent him home with antibiotics...
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The little boy would never have made it.
And for years afterward, no one in that hospital ever forgot the day an "ordinary infection" turned out to be something alive.
