The road to recovery

Brooklyn didn't feel great today. She is really sore in her back where she had the spinal tap and the bone marrow biopsy. She wanted to constantly be held or laying on one of us. We did go down to the play room a couple times and played with Mr. Potato Head and played the piano and sang with the music therapist. She also liked petting a beautiful therapy dog that came in to visit the kids this morning. We took a ride around the floor in a wagon, but she mostly liked being held. She had her first round of Chemo tonight - one that went into her catheter and one was an oral medication. So far she has had a fine reaction to both & is sleeping soundly right now. The first month of treatment is pretty intensive, with daily steroids taken at home, weekly outpatient steroids at the clinic here at UC Davis and 2 or 3 more spinal taps. We haven't received instruction on treatment after that, but she will be receiving some form of chemo over the next 2+ years. We got our own room today so that is really nice, but we miss our old roommate, Meghan. She was so sweet & made notes and clay figures for Brooklyn & her family gave Brookie a little vet kit that she loves playing with. We feel very blessed to be in such good hands here and knowing so many of you are praying and keeping us in your thoughts.