Hey guys!
I'm pretty new to being a plant parent and my elephant ear is giving me suchhhhh a hard time. She's getting plenty of light but about 2 days ago, I seen she developed thrips. I rushed to the store to pick up captain jacks insecticidal soap. I took her straight to the bath tub blasted her with the shower head and then sprayed her leaves and stems down like a crazy person. I looked closer at her soil and seen a bunch of different bugs. So I decided it'd be best to just repot her completely. I repotted her and sprayed down her roots to make sure all the soil was off. I figured to not water her again because I blasted her with the shower head but I think that may have been a mistake. She's completely wilted and not doing well. I watered her thoroughly last night but I'm not sure if I should just cut off her leaves or if she'll come back to life gradually. Her leaves are still green but lifeless! Help :(

Welcome to the site!

Moving your question to the Tropicals forum.

Why would this question automatically belong in tropical forum? Why not container, Aroid, or houseplant?

Hi & welcome @castillozayjagmailco ! What a great window!

Don't worry about the old leaves. These kinds of plants drop older leaves often whenever anything imperfect happens, like getting too dry, too cold, or a disturbance. In the inherently imperfect situation of being in a container in a building, the number of leaves that can be present and healthy at the same time is more limited. It looks like a nice new leaf is coming up. I would probably cut off the 2 worst looking leaves and go from there.

Meanwhile, I see empty shelves that could house more small plants...

Basically your leaves look like dog poo because you totally traumatized your plant. Power washing the leaves not once but twice. Spraying with soap. Repotting. Washing off all the soil from the roots. You've traumatized every part of this plant.
You should never assume that insects you see in your soil are pests. Some are beneficial, like beneficial mites, that eat other non-beneficial insects.
Washing all the soil off the roots is never a good idea. It damages your roots.
Blasting the leaves with water can damage them.
Repotting while all this is going on is a huge stress.

Those leaves probably will just wilt and die. Your plant now has to re-establish itself after basically the equivalent of getting hit by a truck.

You will most likely lose all your mature leaves and have to wait for your plant to re-establish, get rebooted, and start producing new leaves again from the center of the apical meristem

Not disagreeing at all with advice given.
to the site, where you get the truth from very experienced, if not to say even professional level growers here.
I am not as experienced as Gina, but have grown a couple species, mostly as outdoor plants, because when indoors, for me, they always, sooner or later, get spider mites. I live 'next' to you in MD so we share climate. Mine are MUCH happier outside, shade or sun as acclimated, with lots of water in frost free weather.

But if you have a big clear bag like 'dry cleaners' bag, like a dress bag when you buy a fancy dress, you might try gently and loosely covering the whole plant. Don't seal it, but to slow the water loss from leaves.

And next time, show us the problem before going all out. maybe we can save you the trauma.

I think under normal circumstances I too would drape a bag to maintain humidity but I suspect in this case the plant/soil needs a bit of oxygen. EE's are forgiving and will return but you may well lose the existing leaves.