THURSDAY, JUNE 12, 2008 06:59 PM, EDT

Ally has had a good day. She has actually had 3 yogurts to eat! She is on a pretty steady flow of IV fluids (plus the chemo), so she is not so interested in drinking (this always happens in the hospital).

I forgot to write that she was just shy of 17 lbs on Wednesday, when chemo started. We actually thought she would be a LOT lower than that, based on how much she ate and what she looked like after surgery.

Some other news (it all goes in my head, but doesn't always filter out, and sometimes we just need time to process):
The pathology reports show dead and living cells in the parts of the tumor they removed. We were hoping for all dead, but we were not expecting that. An x-ray showed her kidney looked good a couple days after surgery, it looked like blood was flowing to it nicely. As it turns out, it looks like the tumor was growing off her spine, not her adrenal gland, this does not mean something worse, it is just different.

This part kind of stinks: They have been indicating the stuff we have gone through already is the "easy part" of this.