And I am sitting by my father's bedside in hospital, trying to work out whether I should let him drink the one-and-a-half-liter bottle of water that his doctors just came in and said, "You must make him drink today," — my father's been nil by mouth for a week — or whether, by giving him this bottle, I might actually kill him.
Estoy sentada junto al lecho de mi padre en el hospital tratando de decidir si debo dejarle beber la botella de un litro y medio de agua luego de que su doctor viniera y dijese: "Debes hacer que beba hoy" — mi padre no había ingerido nada en una semana — o si, por darle esta botella, podría matarlo.