Chapter 4

These past few days without a job, I wasn't sitting around.

I ran around doing food deliveries and hit up everyone I knew for loans.

But after all that, I was still short by tens of thousands of dollars for the surgery.

With the surgery date coming up fast, I couldn't help but feel really uneasy.

I had no choice but to come clean to my dad. "Dad, this is all the money I've managed to borrow these past few days.

"I'm still short by tens of thousands of dollars, and I can't borrow any more.

"But I've already figured…