On the ninth floor of the Children’s Hospital at Montefiore in Norwood, Shadhey Camacho, 3, accepted her first gift of the season — a baseball autographed by former Mets superstar, Darryl Strawberry, six days before Christmas.

Sitting in a chair wearing fluffy pink slippers, a sparkling plastic tiara perched on her scarred bald head, Shadhey (pronounced shaDAY) smiled when Strawberry, a cancer survivor himself, handed her the ball of stitched rawhide. She gripped it like a pro.

Shadhey suffers from a vicious and cancerous brain tumor. Doctors have tried everything to cure her since she was first diagnosed 11 months ago. They operated (which accounts for the crescent scar on the top of her head), she received radiation therapy and they just finished a seventh cycle of chemotherapy.

Her mother, Deborah, said they were waiting for the results of some blood tests on Friday, but hoped Shadhey could return home for Christmas Day. Then comes the moment of truth.

Shadhey will undergo 17 more days of chemotherapy and then will be tested again for cancer.

“Then we hope, we pray, that we’re done,” Deborah said, sounding upbeat and optimistic.

Shadhey’s doctor says about half of brain tumor patients are cured.

Last Tuesday, Strawberry, the talented but troubled former Mets and Yankees outfielder, visited Montefiore, greeting and signing balls for most of the patients on the ninth floor, most of whom were too young to remember his playing days.

Shadhey and the others, however, seemed happy nonetheless to receive the attention as a gaggle of cameramen crowded into cramped hospital rooms to capture the heartwarming moments.

Strawberry operates a foundation for autistic children and has turned his life around after several bouts with the law and addiction. He visited Montefiore after doing a promotional event to announce the production of a new movie based on a children’s book written by his friend and former agent, Ray Negron, who is now a Yankees consultant.

Negron’s book, “The Boy of Steel,” is about a child suffering from brain cancer who fulfills a lifelong dream by becoming a Yankees batboy for a day.

While receiving an autographed baseball from a famous ballplayer may not have been Shadhey’s dream, it made her smile, if just for a day.

CAP: Strawberry gives Shadhey Camacho, 3, a signed baseball and offers words of encouragement at Montefiore’s Children’s Hospital.