Hanging by a Thread

“Miss Mercer, we’ll take it from here.” One of the nurses said as another one held my hand and prevented me from going into the operating room with my father.

“What do you mean? I have to be with him.” I asked, bewildered that they wouldn’t let me go in with him.

“Unfortunately I can’t let you get past here, let us do our job.” she said and before I could protest more, the big doors were slammed s