Joan's father's illness was getting worse by the day. He was becoming very weak and was beginning to drop in and out of unconsciousness. Joan's mother has been crying because she knew her husband's life was gradually seeping away. He was gradually dying and she couldn't do anything to help or stop him from dying. She has fasted, she has prayed, gone to several mountains to pray, and sown seeds in different churches. But her husband wasn't getting any better. Sometimes she blames him for making her prayers to be ineffective because he seemed to have given up on the hope of being cured of his illness.