....going home on Friday!

....not sure if I wanna say "yay" or "holy crap".  It's time to return to the real world.  This past 7 weeks has been such a world wind .....Aly getting sick - being diagnosed with leukemia - her first admission - clinic visits - STEROIDS - Food, Food and more Food!! - - a visit to Emerg after hours - - then this admission which will end up lasting 16 days.  Does this mean that she will be back into her old routine?  My fingers will be crossed that she does not get any fevers so we can avoid late night trips to the ER.

Each day has been getting better.....Aly now asks to go outside and she is now a HUGE fan of the downtown market .....maybe this will convince Brian that we need to move downtown and NOT to the country. 

We had a very special visitor this morning who gave Aly a Magic wand - - tonight she held the wand up in the air - hit her belly with it and "mommy my bug is now gone - I am not sick anymore".  It floored me, I didn't know whether I was going to laugh because it was so cute, or cry because she knows she is sick.  This special visitor was a mom that has been through this before, pretty much a stranger to me, but for some reason chatting with her in the room made me feel connected in some way.  It is inspiring to hear stories of kids that have been through this and here how strong they have been and see how these parents are survivors themselves ( ...trust me if you have ever had to live with a kid on steroids you have the right to call yourself a survivor).  When Aly was first diagnosed everyone kept saying "kids are so resilient" and it is so true ... they adapt to situations that others would kick and scream over ( ok - Aly does her share of kicking and screaming).

....well fingers crossed that tomorrow is a nice day as Aly wants to go back down to the market to buy more fruit.  If she doesn't sleep in tomorrow ( today she woke up at 10:15am) maybe we will have breakfast downtown too.