Nancy is slowly being transformed into a bionic woman.\u00a0 Some years ago she had intraocular lenses inserted to replace the natural lenses of her eyes.\u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0Now she has a porcine valve in her heart and, using her own donated tissue, some new plumbing for her blood.<\/p>\n
Today the team decided she need no longer have the external pacemaker that has been with her for some time.\u00a0 It has been turned off for a couple of days and she wasn\u2019t needing it for a time before that.\u00a0 So the wires were clipped and the ends leading into her heart were given a few gentle tugs.\u00a0 One came out very nicely.\u00a0 The other one seemed more securely anchored and so it got to stay.\u00a0 It was stretched out ever so gently, clipped off, and allowed to retreat beneath the skin.\u00a0 Truly, a spare part.<\/p>\n
Otherwise, for Nancy, this was an uneventful day.\u00a0 We are again talking about (but not having) a timeline for leaving the ICU and going to a skilled care facility.\u00a0 A comment was made today that \u201cthere is light at the end of the tunnel.\u201d\u00a0 True, but it has turned out to be a very long tunnel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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