The last couple of day she was weak, pale and tried. She is not talking, she would not eat or drink, and for the most part only wants to lay down or sit in her stroller. She probably suffers from the side effects of the medicine, some may even cause mood changes and depression.
It doesn't come as a surprise - she is sick, and it's not exactly the flu... But seeing your child like this gets old pretty quickly.
To get some food and medicine in her we use the feeding tube I wrote about in the previous post. I do it and it works fine, as the picture on the left shows. Today we started giving some special food mix made for force feeding, if everything works we should be out of the hospital tomorrow. We are going to come back for a second round of treatments on Monday.The picture at the end of this paragraph shows Ida's breakfast, which consists of: cortisone (a steroid used for treating leukemia), lactulose (against constipation), a drug against kidney stones, a drug against urinary tract infection, alvadon (paracetamol), morphine and... Oh yeah - some liquid food mixture. I hope I didn't forget anybody...
Considering the fact I was getting dizzy just being near the hospital a week ago, I think I'm coping well...Today is Friday so I bought a bottle of wine and some Japanese Take Away, Ida got to open one of the fortune cookies, it said: "things will turn towards the bright side".
Lets hope they do!
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We just want you to know that our thoughts and prayers are with you in these hard times.G-d willing good news will come soon.
Love and Light
Miriam, Jonathan and Maya
Durban South Africa
It hurts to see always smiling Ida with so pale.
She is in all of our thoughts, and if love was enough, she would be better already.
We miss you Ida!
From Tess and Kaiya.
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