Happy Canadian Thanksgiving!

This is Gracie having fun at the park on Monday night! It is nice to see her smile but it kind of hides how well her eye looks.
She is not really her smiley-self here but you can kind of see the right eye here. It is still a little swollen but mostly just looks like a black eye.

OK. I did not get a holiday today but it is nice to celebrate two thanksgivings every year!

Gracie continues to show tremendous improvement. She looks like she has been in a fist fight and was a bit tired today, however, the swelling is nearly down to nothing. Gracie's eyeball is red. They told us that it might look bruised for a while. Gracie does not seem to have any significant pain from the eye. It still must bother her a bit because sometimes she just touches it to see what the eye is like. Once today she still called it her "big eye" when she was talking to me. She still does not like the drops but knows that we are going to give them to her so does not fight. I do not even think they bother her too much anymore, she is just like anyone and flinches when one drops liquid right onto the eye.

We continue to hope and pray for her health, especially over the next week or so while her immune system is compromised.

Some other good news that I have forgotten to mention is that she only needs to have blood work done once a week (instead of twice a week like last time). Before we wanted to know as soon as the blood counts were recovering so that we could stop the shots. Given that there is only one shot we have already stopped and so the exact days are no longer a big concern. Hooray!! We are so grateful for even the smallest victories in this experience and count our blessings when we can limit the procedures or tests that Gracie needs to go through!