I’m in the family center at Children’s Memorial and Ella is in the Surgical Observation Unit. Valerie is with her. I just went down to check them and they are both asleep. Ella, morphine induced and Val, as a result of being on call all Memorial day weekend till about 9 am this morning and not sleeping nights. I’m taking the opportunity to report that all is okay. Ella has come out of about an 2 hour surgery and she’s bandaged up on one side of her head. She has cried a bit but they’ve being giving her steady doses of pain meds so she’s groggy and been asleep most of that time. As usual it is hard to tell what the result is but going in Dr. Bauer laid out his plan with us for debulking the side of her face and taking out the metal plates that they put in when her bones were cut for the reshaping of her jaws during the last two surgeries. Surprisingly, Dr. Bauer forsees only an overnite stay in the hospital. Our plane tickets are for Sat. unfortunately. We had a great time coming here with lots of adventures. Etan, Gaul and Netta are on their way to the airport right now to go home tonite. More later…..