Wednesday, February 6, 2008

A Toddler on Steroids is Scary

I don't think Katie went one entire hour today without eating something, and usually lots of something. She ate so much today that the skin around her belly is stretched tight like a water balloon about to burst. Amy and I failed to communicate accurately about how much of what food she has been eating, and I'll admit that we have both been giving in to her raging temper tantrums and giving her whatever she wants most of the time. However, in the last two days she managed to get us to feed her mozzarella cheese whenever she wanted it. "what's that Honey? You want more cheese? OK. Just stop crying." That is how the days went. Well, we just added up all of the empty string cheese packages and the missing blocks of cheese. In total, she has now eaten 3lbs of cheese in two days. On top of that there has been plenty of pasta and an amazing number of hot dogs. She is growing so big, so fast that I wouldn't even recognize her if I didn't know it was her. The diapers that were way too big on her at the beginning of this whole mess are now stretched to the max and barely clinging to her fast growing keister. Right now, the steroids are scaring me more than the chemotherapy. Oh and did I mention the constipating effect of cheese? For so much going in there isn't much coming out...

1 comment:

Heather said...

Hi,
It is pretty amazing what that little body is putting in! Just know that this is temporary... as awful as it is to watch her go through. I think an end of steroids celebration is definitely in order! Hang in there you are both doing such a great job. Talked to Ryan tonight briefly, he says to say hello and that he's thinking of you.
Talk to you tomorrow. Wishing you a peaceful night. Love You, Auntie Heather