Chatter Short Story

Chatter. Chatter. Chatter. I heard my mom’s teeth chattering from my room. I walked into the living room to see my mom laying on the couch. Her face was as pale as a ghost. My mom was wrapped in a blanket and still shivering. I’ve never experienced anything like this before. My mom is usually the backbone of my family and she is never sick on the couch like this. I had just started kindergarten when this all unfolded. We had just gotten a new house and my mom had just gotten a new job. She was getting divorced. She was already starting to get sick and the stress from everything else wasn’t helping her immune system. She was driving home from work with the air off, in the middle of the summer. She had just picked me up from school and she
Then, my grandparents were warned that had my mom been a child or an older adult that this could potentially kill her. That night was my mom’s worst night at the hospital. She was up all night, vomiting, and her fever was still really high. A nurse sat in my mom’s room all night with her.
They decided on day four, to reevaluate her medicine. That’s when they discovered that the medicine they were giving her was killing her white blood cells. Her body was unable to fight the infection because of this. Once they changed her medicine, she started to slowly began to get better. She was told that she was highly allergic to two major antibiotics, which are Levaquin and Ceftin, and she should never take those. She also isn’t supposed to take any antibiotic related to these. She was released after six days in the hospital and went home to start her long, slow recovery. Now that this is over with, I now value my mom than ever. Knowing that my mom almost died because of something like this, it scares me to even think about it happening again. Every time my mom gets sick, I think about that horrible week. And to this day, I still remember the sterile and clean smell of the hospital room. She now has to take a special medical inhaler when she feels like she can’t