"Once every ten minutes, or one fit every hour. It varies with how active I am." She fiddled with the sheets in her lap. "But only shallowly, and I can breathe more deeply without triggering a fit, now. "No blood."

There hadn't been blood for a while; not since the first few days of her hospitalization. She had clung to that fact in the small but growing corner of her heart clinging to hope.