She's Eating (at least a little)

Mom, Rebekah and Sarah were out of the house this morning a little after 5am. Cousin Anne and her son JJ, met us at Radiation this morning to help watch Sarah. Today was a clinic day, so after Radiation was complete, we headed over to the hospital to wait.

Rebekah said she wanted to eat, so we stopped at the "Heart Beat Cafe" to see what looked good to her. She wanted a muffin, so Anne bought a blueberry muffin for her and JJ to share. Rebekah wouldn't touch it, but Sarah ate nearly half of the muffin.

Then we headed up to the Play Room where JJ and Sarah could play while Mom and Rebekah went over to clinic. We still had more time to waste, so we stayed for a while, too. Rebekah sat for a while in Mom's lap playing with the train set. She didn't have a lot of energy, but some. JJ seemed to have lots of fun playing and Anne really seemed to enjoy having Sarah fall asleep in her arms for a little while.

Her counts today are actually High. She must have been on her way up when we were in on Tuesday. The doctor didn't need to see her. We did need him to prescribe some additional patches for pain medication. So we had to get that prescription filled and another one refilled. While we waited for the prescriptions we stopped in to see Grandma C. Rebekah told her she wanted to eat, so we wandered over to the cafeteria. Rebekah said she wanted Apple Jacks cereal and pretzels, so Grandma C bought both of them for her. As I type, she is sitting on the couch with a bowl that has some of each of them in it and she is eating. She has had several of the pretzels and some of the apple jacks. She is eating them very slow and being very deliberate with her bites. I think it hurts a little and she's trying to eat on her right side which isn't nearly as sore as the left. Nonetheless, SHE IS EATING.

Her nutrition is up at the rate we were at in the hospital and she's been doing ok with it. We may bump it up a little, to get more into her. Since she is still not getting as much as "Recommended Daily Allowance" when it has to be off for 8+ hours for anesthesia for Radiation. Her weight was up from Tuesday, but still down from last Friday. Last Friday's weight was probably elevated a little from all the fluids she had been getting in the hospital. Then she wasn't keeping stuff down over the weekend, so she lost weight. Little by little, we will get some of that weight back on her.

Friend Fran (who was here yesterday), stopped by today to bring dinner. She and her husband were going to the beach and she just couldn't drive by without stopping and bringing us a meal. Thanks Fran! Sorry Rich for the gravel. Rich collects cars and wasn't thrilled with the half mile of gravel to our house. He wanted to know if the other way was less gravel. No such luck.

Rebekah has not been drooling as much the last couple of days as she had been for the last 3 weeks or so. We didn't need to give her the medication to dry her secretions before anesthesia this morning. Either her mouth isn't as sore or the Radiation is starting to dry her up a bit or a combination of the two. She did just fine without the medication this morning.

Rebekah has been coughing quite a bit today. She has gunk in her throat and some of it is being coughed up. She is not thrilled with it, but I'm sure it is helping (to get it out).

Maggie seems to be having a great time in Disneyland. If you are checking in on her, you'll have to look at the Guest Book to see the latest comments from her Aunt Kimmy about what is going on down there. The updates are there and not in the Journal. Sounds like everyone is having a GREAT time.

Please continue to pray for Maggie, Josh, and Gage.

Hope everyone has a great weekend!