A better day!

Emma has had a better day today! She still doesn't feel well, but we got her to smile and play which is quite the improvement. She had her moments where she acted like she was in pain, and she slept a lot. This picture was of her late this morning. She has only had two doses of morphine today and is completely off of the nausea medecine for now. The morphine actually has a reverse effect on Emma, and makes her more awake than sleepy. We figured out that the hard way when we gave her a dose of morphine late one night and she didn't go to sleep until 3 in the morning!!

We talked to the doctor about her not eating, and he said that hopefully her sores will go away within 5-6 days. Then maybe she will eat! She hasn't lost her appetite because she gets excited when she sees her bottle, and she tries to eat. But for now, we are keeping her on the TPN (total nutrition) until she can drink her bottle.

Emma has been getting a nupigen shot every night to build her good white blood cells up. We will have to continue this for the year of treatment which means we are going to have to give her a shot at home. I do not think I can do it, but Jonny has given her 3 shots at the hospital and is a pro. I'm so glad that he can do it so I don't have to : ) We are also hoping that she will be able to get a central line put in her chest rather than keeping the picc line in her arm. An IV in a 6 month old babies arm is just a HUGE inconvenience! She is definitely building up her muscles in that arm though. She is also getting up on her knees, and I think if she didn't have the picc line she would try getting up on her hands. I'm super excited for her to crawl. She has almost mastered sitting up too!

Tomorrow morning she has her spinal tap and chemo treatments. Please pray that everything goes smoothly in the spinal tap with no complications. Also pray that her sores disappear so she is not in pain and will be able to eat again. Pray that she will not get nauseous from the chemo tomorrow, and that she has a great week full of playing, talking, and just being ornery! Also pray for a complete healing!