Oh!  I forgot to tell you yesterday Liberty gained a pound, and today Liberty gained a pound!  :-D  We high-fived and celebrated.

Liberty has created a game.  Well, Liberty has created many games since she has been here.  One is a game she plays with her chyle container.  I haven't learned about the physics of it, but it has a liquid seal, and in the water chamber area there are two balls.  One is large and one is small.  We've asked (but haven't googled), and no one can tell us what those balls are for.  It was hysterical the first time Liberty discovered she can move the balls three feet away from her by breathing heavily and by speaking with force.  So now she sings in a big voice to make those balls move up and down in the chamber.  The nurses have gotten used to it, but it always startles them and makes them laugh.

Another game she plays is when she is walking the corridors.  She is trying to beat either her previous time or her previous pace or some other unsuspecting person in the hall.  Sometimes she wins; sometimes she loses, but she always has fun.

A game that she has not won ever yet is called Liberty vs. The Chest Tube.  You see, she is putting so much liquid out that she cannot keep up with her hydration.  So the nurses have taken to measuring her output, and then she attempts to drink enough to replace that much output.  She is up to drinking two gallons of water per day, but now she's found out drinking that much is only sending her to the bathroom every thirty minutes, and her chest tube is STILL overflowing.  To add insult to injury, the nurses are counting her urine output as well as her chest tube output.  Liberty has declared that this is cheating.  It should only be the tube against Liberty not the urine and the tube ganging up on her.

She keeps us all laughing, and she is loving every minute of our laughter.