As stoic as Ada initially was in dealing with her illness, in her last few days, the pain of the cancerous growths had become too painful to ignore. Now, even the pain killers that she had been given could not shield her from the onslaught of pain that repeatedly stabbed her in the stomach. She would often scream, writhe, and double over in pain during the worst of these episodes. Things had become so bad, in fact, that her family made her bedroom into what could essentially be termed a padded cell by covering the floors and walls with mattresses lest she was to fall and further hurt herself
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