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"All right. The doctor said as long as long as you came to get it, you could have it," said the nurse. "But it's an obstinate case."
"My little grandson, he sit up there in the house all wrapped up, waiting by himself," Phoenix went on. "We is the only two left in the word. He suffer and it don't seem to put him back at all. He got a sweet look. He going to last." (90-91)
In the nurse's reality, Phoenix's grandson is never going to get better; she basically says Phoenix's efforts are pointless. In Phoenix's reality, though, her grandson will survive. It never occurs to her to give up.