breaking all the rules!

Who lets their kid eat popcorn for breakfast??  We do, if that means she's actually eating! 

On Sunday night, Z's jaw pain became pretty intense and she developed a burning feeling inside her mouth.  She had about 10 oz. of milk on Monday and nothing to eat.  Zoe desperately wanted to eat, but every time she put something in her mouth she would scream and then sob because it burned her mouth.  She was miserable...  We were told to take her to the hospital, where they got her hydrated and doped up on morphine.  Sean talked them in to letting us sleep at home since the oncologist wouldn't be coming in until morning.  So, on Tuesday we just went straight to the oncology office and they did the same thing - IV and morphine.  However, on Tuesday Z did eat a little bag of popcorn - hooray!! 

Today has been a much better day.  Popcorn and blueberries for breakfast & powerade through a syringe.  Lunch was even more of an improvement.  Zoe was so excited to eat and not have it hurt terribly. 

We are really hoping this isn't the "new normal"...  We need a long term game-plan if the mouth pain is on-going.  The medicines she's been given to this point aren't doing the trick - and even if they were doing the trick we can't get her to swallow them because they burn her mouth... and pinning your kid down to force medicine down her throat is such an awful feeling. 

So, until we get it figured out, she can watch movies to distract her while she's eating whatever the heck she wants!