{"id":293,"date":"2008-01-21T21:42:07","date_gmt":"2008-01-22T05:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/?p=293"},"modified":"2008-01-21T21:42:07","modified_gmt":"2008-01-22T05:42:07","slug":"im-just-going-to-close-my-eyes-for-a-second","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/?p=293","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m just going to close my eyes for a second\u2026\u2026.."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today was a fun day hanging out with Greyson.\u00a0 We got there early after picking my mom (Bob’s) from the airport.\u00a0 It wasn’t long before Greyson was wide eyed and alert.\u00a0 He was pretty cranky until noon, when they took off the cpap and put on the canula.\u00a0 He likes the canula SO much better!\u00a0 Of course we would all love to honor his request (not so much a verbal request but it doesn’t take long to get the message) to leave him on the canula full time but that just can’t be done yet.\u00a0 The reason for that was pretty apparent today.\u00a0 I believe Greyson’s c02 was 76 last night, not good.\u00a0 So finding out exactly what is happening with his c02 can be a bit difficult when he is on the canula for 8 hours, then off for 8 etc.\u00a0 So he had the bad c02 at midnight while he was on the canula and had been for 4 hours.\u00a0 So to attempt to see what is going on they tested his gas today at noon after he had been on the cpap for 8 hours.\u00a0 His c02 was down to 59.\u00a0 They then put him on the nasal canula for 8 hours and tested him again.\u00a0 As of 8pm his c02 was 71.\u00a0 So what does all this mean??\u00a0 How should I know I’m not a neonatologist!\u00a0 OK it seems to show that the nasal canula does place a considerable strain on Greyson’s breathing.\u00a0 I don’t know yet how these findings will play out in the orders, but to me (again I’m not DR!) it is showing that he is doing OK on the cpap, and can handle the nasal canula some, but not full time yet.\u00a0 He does seem to be making progress so it seems he just needs some more time to grow lung tissue until he can handle the canula full time.\u00a0<\/p>\n

One funny story from today:\u00a0 Greyson had been very alert for a couple hours when we decided to go get some lunch.\u00a0 My mom and I were talking to him and playing with his hands.\u00a0 All of a sudden Greyson took his right arm and with clenched fist shook it in the air three times as if he was cheering.\u00a0 Hard to get the full effect by typing about the experience, but it was really funny, especially because I had just been talking to him about the need to keep his thumb on the outside of his fist so when he punched he wouldn’t break his thumb.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So probably no midnight gas tonight since he had one at 8pm.\u00a0 I don’t know when his next one will be or what will be happening so tune in tomorrow night when we all learn what the little fellow is up to.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today was a fun day hanging out with Greyson.\u00a0 We got there early after picking my mom (Bob’s) from the airport.\u00a0 It wasn’t long before Greyson was wide eyed and alert.\u00a0 He was pretty cranky until noon, when they took … Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[465],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}