{"id":380,"date":"2008-02-28T21:18:49","date_gmt":"2008-02-29T05:18:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/?p=380"},"modified":"2008-02-28T21:18:49","modified_gmt":"2008-02-29T05:18:49","slug":"so-are-you-new-here","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/?p=380","title":{"rendered":"So are you new here?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Greyson got to check out one of his other toys today.\u00a0 He wasn’t sure about it (a common theme with new things) but was warming up to it after awhile.\u00a0 If the trend continues he will LOVE it soon.<\/p>\n

Today Greyson had an upper GI study.\u00a0 Basically they put barrium (or something like that) down his feeding tube and then took pictures every so often as it worked its way through.\u00a0 This is in preparation for all the surgeries he has coming.<\/p>\n

So what does he have coming?\u00a0 Well tomorrow morning they will decide for sure but most likely he will be getting a PDA ligation (the PDA is not a palm pilot, but an artery in the heart that should close at birth.\u00a0 With preemie’s it often doesn’t).\u00a0 We haven’t talked about this in a long time, but it is still open and they are going to talk about whether or not it would benefit him to get it closed surgically.\u00a0 He also is going to get a surgery for his reflux, a tracheostomy, a G-tube (for feeding), and to top it all off he is going to be circumcised.\u00a0 Sounds kind of like a lot doesn’t it?\u00a0 Well it is and in fact he will not get this all in one surgery, but quite possibly in two.\u00a0 They will talk with us about that tomorrow after they decide whether or not to go ahead and fix the PDA.\u00a0 The other heart issue I talked about yesterday they will leave alone for now and watch.\u00a0 Many times this will go away on its own, or not be a problem.\u00a0 They will watch it and if it becomes an issue they will fix it then.\u00a0 This is somewhat good news as that surgery is much more involved than fixing the PDA.\u00a0 So Greyson has a lot on his plate right now.\u00a0 I know it probably sounds bad, but it will be OK.\u00a0 The challenge now is waiting to talk to the Dr’s tomorrow so we can know what the plan is going to be and which surgeries will be done in what order.\u00a0 We talked to the surgeon today (actually Stacy talked to a lot of Dr’s today as she went this morning) and it was really good to discuss all the pro’s and con’s of all the different surgeries.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Greyson’s gasses continue to be better (well the c02 was up from yesterday but overall everything is coming down into the correct range) so we are thankful for that.\u00a0 He is showing improvement and once all these surgeries are over and he recovers we should be in pretty good shape.\u00a0 As with any surgery there are risks but we know Greyson is in God’s hands and that He can guide the Dr’s.\u00a0 So until tomorrow……….we wait.\u00a0 Have I mentioned I’m not real good at that!?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Greyson got to check out one of his other toys today.\u00a0 He wasn’t sure about it (a common theme with new things) but was warming up to it after awhile.\u00a0 If the trend continues he will LOVE it soon. Today … 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-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380","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=380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}