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We had a restless night last night. Ellie won the final round in the battle against the IV in the head. She pulled a Houdini act getting the socks off her hands and yanked the IV out sometime in the night. The nurse decided to give her some fluids at some point. I noticed this at 4am by which time pretty much her entire head was matted with the sugary goop that leaked out.

So, at 4am (when I do my best work) I had the pleasure of removing the tape and adhesives holding the IV to her hair and scalp and scrubbed and brushed out the glucose perm she had going on. There’s nothing as heartbreaking as her looking up at me with this bewildered, why are you doing this to me look.

I think she had forgiven me by the time she slipped into her ladybug costume to go trick or treating for her first time ever. They had it all organized where we went around the hospital with a bunch of the other kids from the floor. She hauled in a bunch of loot from stickers to pounds of candy that Colleen and I are saving for her…whoops, sorry, just smudged chocolate on the keyboard.

Click here or on the photo for a few big pictures from Trick or Treating.

Happy Halloween everyone!

-Ken