First successful quarantine

I probably shouldn't even post this, since I'm officially waiting until tonight to declare victory. But, things are looking pretty optimistic.

Three days ago, Beth came home from school with a raging fever. This sort of thing is never fun, but Abbie's condition puts a whole new spin on things. Her blood counts are down - not so much that it is alarming, but enough that her resistance to infection has been impacted. Plus, her broviac puts her at a much greater risk of sepsis; even a small infection can quickly travel to her heart and put her into septic shock.

So, we had to try to keep her healthy through Beth's illness. Not easy, especially when Abbie was so delighted to have Beth home from school that she wanted nothing more than to hug her all day long. To make things more complicated, we were having our kitchen painted, thus putting the kitchen out of use.

So, we put a movie on in the basement for Abbie and Claire, and Beth was put into quarantine in my bedroom (the only other room in the houe with a t.v.) Then the power went out. No movies for anyone. So we had Abbie and Claire, sitting around the increasingly frigid basement and Beth, stuck up in my bedroom with nothing to do but look at books, and occasionally run to the bathroom to vomit. Oh, and since we have a well, when the power goes out so does the water.

We made it through, though. Beth finally recovered and was able to go back to school today, and so far Abbie is showing no signs of developing a fever.

Thank God for small miracles. :)

Update:

Beth threw up in school again yesterday. I have no idea what is going on with her - she had no fever, although her temp went up a little by the evening. We are going on over a week now of this: she throws up, spikes a fever, then seems to go back to being perfectly fine. Until she throws up again. Ugh.

I am a prisoner in this house.