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Edward was home with his two sisters. All of them
had chickenpox and were being ___1___
at home for two weeks. It all ___2___
with his eldest sister, Jean. Last Wednesday, Jean
came ___3___
from school with a few spots on her arm. Her mother
thought that they were mosquito ___4___
that she had received from school. She simply asked
Jean to take a bath and then to ___5___
some ointment on them. However, that night, Jean
broke out in a fever. Her mother was ___6___
when the fever spiked through the night and
immediately took her to the doctor the next morning.
To make things ___7___,
when Jean awoke the next morning, she had even more
spots, this time on her face ! The doctor ___8___
her and diagnosed it as chickenpox. She was told to ___9___
home for two weeks.
The next day after Jean had been diagnosed,
Edward's second sister started to ___10___
symptoms of chickenpox as well. Seeing how the
chickenpox had ___11___
from one sister to the other, Edward's mother tried
to separate him from them as much as possible. For
the next two days, she constantly looked over every
inch of Edward's ___12___
for any spots. He was fine at first, to her ___13___.
However, on the third day, Edward, too, started to
have the spots. With a sigh, his mother took him to
the doctor to confirm and true enough, it was
chickenpox.
Edward's mother was extremely busy for the next
week or so, ___14___
three sick children back to health. When all three
children finally ___15___,
their mother was beyond relief. It had been
extremely tiring for her. At least, all of them had
chickenpox at the same time, so she only had to go
through this once. |
