Ella’s brief visit to surgery today yielded a wee bit of good news. For the first time, in a very long time, Ella’s airway appears to be healing properly – normal mucosa growth and no “over-scaring”.
This improvement means the doctors will not be replacing the stent they removed from Ella’s airway on the 11 February. While we are still a long way from saying good-bye to Ella’s trach tube, these developments are most welcome progress.
The image to the left is Ella caring for one of her favorite recovery-room nurses, Sandra. Sandra has survived multiple recovery-room encounters with Ella and is used to Ella’s occasionally gruff bedside manner.