A long day in clinic

Riley and I had a very long day at clinic yesterday. I had sort of anticipated it being a difficult day due to it being a procedure day, meaning no eating or drinking after midnight...and we weren't scheduled to even arrive at clinic until 10:30. We arrived at 10 hoping this may help speed up the process...no such luck. They first stuck us in one of the curtained "holding area" rooms until a procedure rooms opened up, and it did have a TV so this helped a little. They finally accessed Riley around 11:30, and sent her blood off to the lab. So, at this point I'm thinking we are sailing along, and will be done in no time...again, no such luck. We didn't even see anyone again until 2 o'clock when some volunteer person came strolling into our area, asking if we wanted a fresh baked chocolate chip cookie. Um, yes I would love one...Riley you stay right here while mommy goes and inhales one of these heavenly smelling cookies...NOT!! We finally got moved into the procedure room around 2:45, and they finally finished everything about an hour later. Riley was finally able to devour her cheeseburger...and all was right with the world once again. Whew...

Riley's blood counts were all good. Her ANC was 1300, hemoglobin 12.6, and platelets were 146. Her check-up and everything else also came out great. We started another 5 day round of steroids, and her teacher has been warned. I think she'll be okay during the day, though...it will just be the fun evenings we get to deal with. She is still loving school, and talks about it non-stop. She is quite the social butterfly, and has already made a lot of friends...or made up a lot of friends, as Riley says. She came home the first day and was so proud that she made up a lot of friends, but she couldn't remember their names...hopefully these really are actual kids and she's not walking around talking to imaginary people. Her teacher even commented how she is friendly and talks to everyone...she probably meant to say bosses around everyone, but we'll let her have it.

On the way home from Houston yesterday we got to stop and see our friends Kelly and Angie's new baby girl. Alyssa Ann was born bright and early yesterday morning, and is just as precious as she can be. Big sister Addison turns 2 on Saturday...so they were so close to sharing the same birthday. Congrats you guys...you have a beautiful family.

Finally able to inhale her cheeseburger