The rollercanster.
I’m not always sure how Misty does it. I mean…she gets pretty down at times, of course, but she manages to live in a complete rollercoaster of emotion and stay pretty level headed and focused. We pretty much get the full spectrum of emotion on a weekly basis and she is keeping her head up.
So for the happy stuff…Today, our little girl ate chicken cacciatore (yes, we have progressed to big kid food) off her own fork. I mean, we had to help her get the chicken on the end of the fork (it was more like a spork anyway), but she lifted it up and fed herself. And yesterday, I got a fairly complete sentence out of her. I had just read her this little pop-out book about “Aunt Phybian” (the amphybian) and she picks it up, walks over to my lap and says “more book dada.” I of course melted and read it like 19 more times. Then….on top of our fun with Livi, we get the privilege of seeing our best friends beaultiful new (less than a day old) baby girl, Lyla!
But in the midst of the joy there is also discouragement. Today we got the pathology report back of the tumor sample from the second surgery. It showed a progression to Grade IV. So while we were hopeful after the first pathology, our fears were confirmed today.
Really though, it doesn’t change too much. We are starting a new chemotherapy on wednesday and one way or another Misty will be healed. Grade IV just means its a bigger miracle I guess…
