Tuesday was the best day so far. Riley woke up with the spunk that we all knew she had, but hadn't seen in a while. She still wouldn't use her left hand, they had put in another IV line while she was under anesthesia to use for the chemo treatments. She made friends, she danced in the halls...anything to get out of the room for a while. She also discovered her new favorite hobby...painting. We ended up with paint everywhere, but the girl was happy...so we were happy. She also received her first chemo treatment Tuesday afternoon. We had all expected this big long drawn out affair, but the whole thing took less than 2 minutes. Awesome. She handled it like a pro. I think it turned out to be more traumatic for us, than for her. One down, many more to go. One of the other medicines she will receive for treatments is a steroid and she will get this twice a day. Everyone had warned us about the mood swings she would have, and how it would make her very hungry. I had no idea how quickly this would all start to happen. I think she ended up eating 3 dinners this night. She had her hospital tray which was a sandwich and chicken noodle soup. Josh, Jen, and I decided to have Italian food for dinner, and Riley decided she would help us eat our dinner...making meal #2. After we ate we went to the play room to join in the festivities, and they were serving pizza...meal #3.
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