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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up: The Eleanor Art of Decluttering

A Sunday update on our little lady, via texts from Kim:

Doctors are taking Eleanor off her insulin to see how she does. As of around 5pm, her sugar was at 173.

She was also able to have an arterial line removed from her belly, and doctors may insert a PICC line tomorrow in order to remove the other line from her belly button. A PICC line - or percutaneously inserted central catheter - is an IV line that travels through the arm and up through the chest, and is less likely to get infected.

In addition, nurses removed one of her machines (?!). Upon further questioning, Kim said that she forgets what it's called (understandable), but that it takes her blood, runs diagnostics, and then puts it back in. So, yay for the bambino no longer having to share her blood with a machine! Asked for a quote, Eleanor responded that the machine did not "spark joy," so out it goes (jokes).

They're also taking her nitric back down to 5 and seeing how she tolerates that. Last evening, the goal was to wean her off completely, but apparently she did not cooperate, so this morning when Mom and Dad arrived, she was back up to 10. And because I think this detail is adorable, Kim reports that Eleanor "has wiggled out of her eye mask 4,946,263,828,473 times."


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  1. nfrankJanuary 27, 2019 at 6:48 PM

    ❤️

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  2. Oldgirl48January 27, 2019 at 8:08 PM

    Awww God is good. Sounds all very very good. What a little fighter. Yay Ellie. Hope no one minds I'm calling her Ellie lol. It's cute but Elenore is BEAUTYZ. Love you all.

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  3. BKWJanuary 27, 2019 at 9:51 PM

    Tidying-up is good.

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