Alone by Jennifer Reynolds

Author:Jennifer Reynolds [Reynolds, Jennifer]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Published: 2014-02-21T16:00:00+00:00

Once Thanksgiving was over, her birthday and Christmas were just around the corner. She was praying to live long enough to see them both, along with Caleb’s birthday, the day that would mark the one year anniversary of the whole mess. Unfortunately, she didn’t feel as if she would make it until then.

She truly felt as if she were dying. The worst part was that Caleb was as healthy as he could ever be. He hadn’t had the slightest bit of anything since he came into the world. The baby, yes she started calling it a baby once she thought she could feel it, also seemed to be doing fine. Her library was full of pregnancy books, and they said that everything from the sporadic mood changes to the constipation that she had been having was all normal. She had even been taking some over the counter prenatal vitamins and eating the best she could under the conditions.

Back in January, when the sickness started, she was by no means an obese person, but as the months had passed, she had lost a considerable amount of weight. The end of the world was the perfect diet, she laughingly told Kyle one day shortly after they were married as she was showing him pictures of her old plump body.

After seeing the pictures and noticing the date on the back was from the Christmas before, and seeing how scarily skinny she was getting compared to them, Kyle had begun to fuss a lot about how much weight she was losing. He would have been proud to know that she had gained fifteen pounds in those four months. Half of it was probably from the lack of exercise she had been getting because she had been keeping herself cooped up in the house; only a fourth of it was baby. She was trying to convince herself that when the weather turned warmer she was going to spend more time outside. Hoping that if she gave herself a future to look forward to she wouldn’t contemplate much on her upcoming death.

Being pregnant had kept her from being able to take certain medications which in turn was probably why she kept getting worse. And what medications she did take didn’t do her any good. The longer she stayed sick, the worse she felt, and the more convinced she was that she was going to die.

Because she didn’t know what else to do, the morning of the first of December, she moved all the foods that Caleb could open by himself, to the kitchen floor. She filled every bottle and sippy cup in the house with water, put them in the bottom of the refrigerator, and showed him where they were. Throughout the day, whenever he wanted something, she showed him how to go and get it.

He mostly crawled, but he was beginning to walk a little, a few steps here and there, all of which landed him on his bottom. She didn’t know any other way to help him.

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