{"id":4465,"date":"2007-11-20T21:00:04","date_gmt":"2007-11-21T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/?p=54"},"modified":"2007-11-20T21:00:04","modified_gmt":"2007-11-21T05:00:04","slug":"dads-solo-visit-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/?p=4465","title":{"rendered":"Dad’s solo visit."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well today I was the one to get to go see Greyson while Stacy stayed home.\u00a0 She had made an appointment to get our furnace and ductwork cleaned and so she stayed home but said I could go.\u00a0 I went at noon and found Greyson alert and ready to have his diaper changed.\u00a0 The nurse told me I could get started while she answered a phone call.\u00a0 So, there I was, alone and changing a diaper.\u00a0 This might not have been a problem except for the fact that it is difficult for me to change his diaper through the portholes on his isolette.\u00a0 Add to this the fact that he now has four wires that can get in the way and you start to see that this is a little challenging.\u00a0 Well all of this was in play plus Greyson had made a LARGE poop as well!\u00a0 So I’m trying to get him cleaned up and changed, which again is difficult under the best of circumstances, and Greyson decides he is not going to help out at all.\u00a0 He would bend his legs when I needed them straight, and straighten them when I needed them bent.\u00a0 It was quite a chore but I’m proud to say I finally “got er done”.\u00a0 <\/font><\/p>\n

At 4 he didn’t poop but was extremely squirmy while I changed him.\u00a0 About a minute after changing him we were getting ready to weigh him when the nurse said, “do you want to change his diaper first, or wait until after we weigh him?”\u00a0 WHAT?\u00a0 I politely told her I had in fact just finished changing his diaper.\u00a0 She smiled and pointed to his now very wet diaper and said, “Well looks like you might want to do that again!”\u00a0 He had already completely soaked his new diaper!\u00a0 Thankfully he did this after I got it on and not during the process as that creates all kinds of new problems!<\/font><\/p>\n

They didn’t make any ventilator changes last night or this morning.\u00a0 His midnight gas was pretty good but for some reason they decided to let him hang out while the Dr decided whether to ween the PIP (pressure) or the rate.\u00a0 The nice thing was he decided Greyson didn’t need a noon gas since his midnight one was good and he would wait until after they made a change.\u00a0 This kept Greyson from getting his foot pricked which he was very thankful for.\u00a0 The Dr. came by this afternoon and told me he had decided to put Greyson on the “very slow ween program”.\u00a0 They will turn his rate down by 2 once a day and see how he does.\u00a0 This will mean he only has to have one gas a day, but also means it will be a couple weeks before he will be close to getting off the vent.\u00a0 This rate can change if Greyson has great gasses through the process, so as always only time will tell.<\/font><\/p>\n

We are praising God for his provision today.\u00a0 He has blessed us through the gifts of so many people that it is hard to keep track of.\u00a0 People have blessed us with food, cash gifts, and gift cards for food and gas.\u00a0 This has helped us tremendously.\u00a0 Today God blessed us through a complete stranger.\u00a0 As I said Stacy had an appointment for our ductwork to be cleaned to prepare for Greyson’s homecoming.\u00a0 Well when it came time to pay him, he told her “just put this magnet on your fridge and when Greyson comes home use the number on it to give me a call so I can come visit him, that’s payment enough”.\u00a0 God is so amazing!<\/font><\/p>\n

Well I went off to see Greyson a little earlier than I expected which meant I didn’t come home from work to get the camera.\u00a0 So the picture of the day\u00a0will have to be an old one.\u00a0 I think this picture from Sunday is fitting.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well today I was the one to get to go see Greyson while Stacy stayed home.\u00a0 She had made an appointment to get our furnace and ductwork cleaned and so she stayed home but said I could go.\u00a0 I went … Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4465","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4465"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4465\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4465"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4465"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4465"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}