Acting out all our hidden desires. Ella last night, in an unsupervised nanosecond, pulled out her feeding tube. We spent three hours in the emergency room, at the end of which they decided that maybe the tube wasn’t necessary after all. We should try feeding her orally and see how that goes. The result is this: The tube is out! Ella is sucking like a vacuum cleaner! This makes a huge difference and enhances the feeling we have a little girl rather than an appliance. She seems very happy too. We will still go to the swallow study test next Wednesday to make sure she is sending all the fluids to the right place. I am pretty sure she is.