{"id":349,"date":"2008-02-13T21:44:16","date_gmt":"2008-02-14T05:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/?p=349"},"modified":"2008-02-13T21:44:16","modified_gmt":"2008-02-14T05:44:16","slug":"prayers-for-a-better-day-were-answered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/?p=349","title":{"rendered":"Prayers for a better day were answered!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Thank you all for joining me in praying for Greyson’s comfort.\u00a0 Today was a much better day, he was able to rest despite all of his irritations.\u00a0 I got there in time to see the PH study start.\u00a0 It was quite interesting watching the man callibrate the PH machine by placing the probe and Greyson’s hand into a very tall (about 1 foot) tube of yellow liquid and then repeat it with a pink liquid.\u00a0 He placed the tube, which is\u00a0a little bigger than a piece of spaghetti, \u00a0down Greysons throat with his feeding tube until it was just above his stomach.\u00a0 They took an xray to be sure it was placed correctly.\u00a0 Now for 24 hours it will monitor the PH of that little spot.\u00a0 The machine had buttons to push that indicated when the infant has a desat or is upset.\u00a0 I just sat and held my boy and pushed the buttons when needed for quite a while today.\u00a0\u00a0 We pray that it helps find out the problem soon!\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

He was mostly content and quite sleepy.\u00a0 He even had a short break from the CPAP tonight as we weighed him and gave him a little sponge bath.\u00a0 He seemed happier after that and when I left he was looking contentedly at his mobile.\u00a0 We have such wonderful nurses that I never worry about him being alone in his miserable moments.\u00a0 There is always someone there to pat his tummy or take him out of the bed and rock him.\u00a0 I cannot sing their praises enough.\u00a0 If I ever hear them talking about things that they wished were different in the NICU it is always about how the babies can be even\u00a0safer and more comfortable.\u00a0\u00a0 What a blessing each and every one of them are to us.<\/p>\n

And now for two exciting and fun tidbits.\u00a0\u00a0 First of all Greyson is now 10lbs and 1 ounce.\u00a0 That really snuck up on us!\u00a0 Secondly Greyson has very fitting plans tomorrow to celebrate his first Valentines day.\u00a0 Tune in tomorrow to hear about it!\u00a0 Thank you all for your prayers for Greyson and for Bob who had to stay home again today, and also for your encouraging words to me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thank you all for joining me in praying for Greyson’s comfort.\u00a0 Today was a much better day, he was able to rest despite all of his irritations.\u00a0 I got there in time to see the PH study start.\u00a0 It was … 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-349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349","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=349"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=349"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=349"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=349"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}