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Ellie's blood transfusion is complete. Mandy pointed out that for the rest of her life Ellie will have to answer yes on all of those medical and insurance forms that ask if she's ever had a blood transfusion. But in the meantime she has suffered no ill effects from it and looks noticeably more pink. (Well, it is noticeable to someone who spends as much time looking at her as her mother and I do.) They gave her 24 mL of blood over 3 hours and she slept through most or all of it. Right now she is moving around some, but so far she doesn't seem to notice that she hasn't been fed since 8 am. We expect she will be getting fussy any minute now. She is now getting some basic IV fluids: sugar and a few salts (electrolytes). She also got her dose of caffeine. One of us will still get to hold her sometime today, but before then mom is taking a nap. Hopefully dad will be able to sneak a nap in somewhere too.