Chapter 4: My Little Ones.
The next morning, there was no change with Shane but Isabel was doing just fine. Ron was signing her release papers, while Mrs. Possible was with her daughter and Shane.
"Okay little girl, let's go see your mummy and brother," he said to her.
Another nurse who was on call, Alora, led him back to where Kim, her mother, and Shane were. Kim was in a rocking chair, huddled up in her blue robe, fast asleep. Mrs. Possible was sitting next to her watching after Shane.
"Ron," she whispered as she stood up, "How is Isabel?"
"She's fine," he said handing his daughter over, "We just signed the release papers. How are Kim and Shane?"
"Kim is exhausted, she fell asleep about an hour ago, the nurses say Shane is slightly improving. Once the antibiotics kick in and he starts breathing normally, he should be able to go home, but it will be at least 10 days. In all honestly he was born so prematurely he should have died, but he's a fighter."
"Ron?" they heard a soft whisper from behind them.
They turned around to see that Kim was awake.
"Hey sweetie," Ron said as he kissed his wife.
"How's Isabel?"
"She's fine sweetheart," Mrs. Possible said handing her granddaughter over to her mother.
"Yes," Ron chimed in, "Just signed the release papers."
"I pray that your brother will survive to meet you Isabel," Kim said to her daughter, "I know he should have died, he was born so early. How was he so lucky?"
Ron put an arm around his wife, "He's a Stoppable…and a Possible," he said looking his wife in her eyes.
"Kim sweetheart, you haven't eaten anything today, why don't you, Ron, and Isabel go to the cafeteria and I'll stay with Shane?" her mother said.
"I don't want to…" Kim started.
"Kim you need to eat something, it won't be long," Ron reassured her.
Reluctantly, Kim let Ron wheel her and Isabel out of the room and down to the cafeteria. Kim ordered a salad while Ron had a bowl of soup. He heated up Isabel's bottle with the on hand microwave. Once Kim sat down with the food she realized just how hungry she was.
"I'm so grateful Isabel is healthy…we have been so blessed…is our luck running out?" she asked thinking of Shane.
Ron took her hand and said, "Shane is going to be fine. He's Possible/Stoppable, there aren't two stronger families then that."
This made Kim smile slightly. She looked at her new daughter and thought, "Is it really too much to ask for two completely healthy babies?"
Just then the nurse that assisted Ron early, Alora, come in for them.
"Is something wrong?" Kim asked fear growing within her.
Alora said, "You better come with me,"
"His body can't seem to fight off the infection," Dr. Francis Mark explained to the Stoppables, "We can't break the fever he has formed and his body seems to be rejecting all the antibiotics."
Kim couldn't speak she was sobbing hysterically in her husband's arms. Ron spoke up through his tears.
"What's our next step?" Ron asked.
Dr. Mark sighed, "We will try another antibiotic and wait until his fever breaks…but I have to be honest folks. It's very likely he won't survive."
Kim fainted in Ron's arms.
