Dear Marmee...
everyone...
[sniffling]
I quit my job.
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I know it's pretty trivial with everything else that's going on but...
it feels easier to talk about that than anything else.
Everything here seems...
both all too real and like a really bad dream.
Aunt March was surprisingly supportive.
I guess not surprising, given the circumstances.
It's nice to know she's got a soft heart underneath that cold shell.
She even said I could go back, if I wanted to, once Beth gets better.
And Marmee's working on getting leave and coming home.
And Beth really is improving.
She's sleeping in the room behind me.
She's been sleeping a lot...which I think is a good thing.
It was all so sudden. Just a freaking nosebleed!
Not your typical "tilt and plug" nosebleed.
It wouldn't stop pouring.
She was all...light-headed and paler than anything.
She had these weird bruises...
It got really scary, so I brought her to the ER,
and since, they've put her up in a room with a bed and everything.
It's been a few days. Four...five?
I've barely left the hospital at all.
They've been monitoring her, running biopsies,
doing blood tests, making sure her counts don't drop too low again.
The doctors are calling it aplastic anemia?
Which basically means that they're concerned with blood things,
but they have no idea why it's actually happening.
They keep throwing around words like,
transfusions, and platelets, and bone marrow.
[sighs]
Fun things like that.
Beth's in pretty good spirits...when she's awake.
She's been pretty out of it most of the time.
She's totally drained.
Which, I mean, makes sense, considering all the tubes that are coming out of her arms.
[sighs]
I hate seeing her like that.
But it did give me a pretty good idea for a cyborg film
that I'm totally gonna cast her in when we get outta here.
Laurie: Hey.
Jo: Hey.
A video?
I was restless.
Where's my coffee?
You don't need anything else keeping you awake.
Seriously, Jo, you need to get some sleep.
I can't.
Beth will be fine. Nothing is going to happen to her if you just
take some time to get some rest, I promise.
Let me watch over her. And you, too.
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