Oh The Food

It was a long one today. Brooklyn didn't feel that good, but it's hard because she is really too young to be able to verbalize how she is feeling. I talked with my cousin this morning & it was really helpful. Her 17 year old son was diagnosed with Lymphoma a couple weeks before Brooklyn was diagnosed with Leukemia. It is wild that both of our kids were diagnosed within a month of eachother. She told me how he was feeling & what he says after having his chemo. The treatments are very different, because they have different types of cancer and because of their ages, but it helped me to maybe understand how Brooklyn might be feeling, she just doesn't know how to describe it. She wanted me to lay with her a lot today and pretty much ate from when she got up until when she went to bed. We started at about 4:30am with pancakes and popcorn, followed by cereal, more pancakes, some chicken nuggets, ice cream, grapes, hot dogs, yogurt, more popcorn, pizza, carrots and finally a bowl of ice cream before bed. Our home nurse said yesterday that as soon as she is off these steroids, she won't be eating so much anymore, and will go through a time when she won't want to eat at all, so they want her to have a little extra 'cushion' on her to tide her over for that time. We still haven't gotten any results on the heart monitor, which is a little frustrating, but we kind of figure no news is good news. This has definitely been a shock and a big life change for our family, but I was thinking today about the kids who have some kind of diagnosis that is long term, and how hard it is for them and their parents. It was weird to think that I am thankful that Brooklyn has cancer, something that is almost totally curable, and that we, hopefully, will be rid of in a few years. It is funny how something like this makes you appreciate things you never even thought about before.