Just around 7 pm they finished the surgery. Dr. Black came out to give us a briefing and found Etan, Gal and Carl — (Aunt) Karen and I had just left for a walk. Apparently, the surgery went well however there was massive bleeding that took a long time to get under control. Ella was just being cleaned up and prepared for the Intensive Care Unit. We all went to dinner in the hospital cafeteria and then went up to the see Ella in the ICU. The anesthesiologist met us there — Dr. Myers. She reported that they gave Ella a record number of 10 units of blood. That amounted to completly replenishing her total blood supply about 4 times. She also got record numbers of other fluids: anti-coagulants, plasma, platelets, etc. etc. Pretty scary. Also, they were just working on getting her blood pressure stable and we could go in and see her once she became stable. Etan and I waited another hour (Carl, Karen and Gal went home), and then asked to be taken in. Ella looked a sight. Quite shocking in my opinion even though this is to be expected. Not so much by the number of tubes and equipment but because of the swelling. She’s really swollen like a ballon from head to foot. It hurts just to look at her. The swelling will get worse but we have been told it looks much worse then it really is. I’m relieved that Ella is stable. She was described as a “real trooper” by the staff.