Taking a nap after checking in. The hospital does a lot of stuffed animal gifts...
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Playing with mommy's Sasha baby.
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Relaxing with Daddy. She has her IV set up, and needed a brace on the other arm so that she wouldn't pull it off.
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Back in the room, post-surgery. A very pale, sleepy Ella.
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Still pretty woozy a day or so later.
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You can see here that her tummy is quite distended. This is the result of the ileus. It was very painful for her.
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Things got worse before they got better. She lost over 10% of her body weight, and was getting hollow-eyed and dehydrated. My poor baby...
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Feeling a little better, reading Curious George.
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She kept wanting to read mommy's "magathneen" (magazine). We would often walk to the floor's lobby and read the magazines there at the kids' table.
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Auntie sent Ella some Cinderella-themed toys...Ella loved them, and played with them every day.
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Ella got tired of me trying to photojournalize this experience, and got mad at me for taking pictures. With this kind of bed-head, who can blame her?
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Playing with her "Cinderellas" as we call them.
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Mommy, leave me alone. I feel rotten.
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Feeling a bit better, and coloring on a card Grandma Lu sent (it was supposed to be colored on!).
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A change of pace...sitting in a chair in her room!
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