Marilyn's kidney transplant surgery was scheduled for three days later.
Gillian originally planned to join the film crew, but when she heard that Stephanie's mother needed surgery, she decided to postpone her departure for a few days and ask Gracie for a leave to go with Stephanie.
The reason was that Stephanie didn't have many relatives or friends, and she wanted to be there for her during this time.
Gracie said it was no big deal, and since their scenes weren't being filmed right away, it wasn't a problem to delay their arrival for a few days. She would handle it.
When Maddie found out about this, she also rushed to the hospital and accompanied Stephanie and Gillian as they sent Stephanie's mother into the operating room.
Before the surgery began, a family member needed to sign the consent form.
When Stephanie saw that the success rate for kidney transplantation was only 50% on the consent form, her hand trembled as she signed it.
She knew the risks beforehand, but it was still terrifying to experience it firsthand.
Gillian and Maddie comforted her, saying, "Steph, don't worry... your mom will be fine, the surgery will be successful!"
"I'm fine... I'm not afraid, my mom will be okay." Although Stephanie tried to reassure herself, her voice still trembled.
Gillian and Maddie felt sorry for her and tried to divert her attention, "Where's your Silver Fox? Didn't he come today?"
"He has an important meeting today. He'll come later." Stephanie said.
"Alright. Actually, even if he came, he wouldn't be able to do much, just one more person waiting outside." Maddie thought she would be unhappy about this and tried to comfort her.
But Stephanie didn't really care about that, knowing that her mother's kidney source was found by Sebastian and that he paid for the hospitalization and surgery expenses. He had already done so much for them.
She was just purely afraid that her mother's surgery wouldn't go smoothly and she wouldn't make it out.
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