{"id":4489,"date":"2008-02-22T21:49:40","date_gmt":"2008-02-23T05:49:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/?p=368"},"modified":"2008-02-22T21:49:40","modified_gmt":"2008-02-23T05:49:40","slug":"its-not-that-i-dont-appreciate-it-but-there-is-a-tube-in-my-nose-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/?p=4489","title":{"rendered":"It’s not that I don’t appreciate it, but there is a tube in my nose!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Today we put Greyson’s mobile up for him to look at.\u00a0 I think he liked it, but is still dealing with being intubated as well as all the drugs he is on.\u00a0 So he looked at it, but it didn’t astound him as it has in the past.\u00a0 He continues to do OK, as the Dr. said during rounds he is taking baby steps towards getting better.\u00a0 While we would rather take BIG steps, he is in fact a baby and baby steps towards improvement are at least steps in the right direction!<\/p>\n

There really hasn’t been much change in his condition.\u00a0 His blood gas (at least this mornings) was\u00a0better.\u00a0 The ph was in range and the c02 was in the mid 60’s.\u00a0 His blood pressure has been on the high side and his vent pressure (the pressure it takes to give him a breath) has been higher than yesterday most of the time we have been here, but since they repositioned him it is looking better.\u00a0 He has also come down a little on his oxygen level, although that is still a lot higher than we would like.<\/p>\n

We had dinner with a couple of Greyson’s NICU nurses.\u00a0 It was really nice to sit and visit with them.\u00a0 They continue to encourage us both through conversations with them or notes that they leave.\u00a0 One NICU nurse left us a nice card as she visited late last night after getting off work.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Today as I was preparing for my next sermon (I’m preaching again March 2) I was reading the parable of the persistent widow.\u00a0 This parable reminds us to pray without ceasing and with the expectation that God will answer our requests.\u00a0 I know God has this situation in control, but also know that as his children we are free to petition him.\u00a0 It is our prayer that he will work again in uterly miraculous ways to bring healing to Greyson.\u00a0 While we know this can happen and pray that way, we also are willing to submit to God’s plan knowing He may be using this time in ways we cannot see.\u00a0 As always our primary prayer is that God would give comfort to Greyson, and that God would be glorified through this process.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today we put Greyson’s mobile up for him to look at.\u00a0 I think he liked it, but is still dealing with being intubated as well as all the drugs he is on.\u00a0 So he looked at it, but it didn’t … 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-4489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489","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=4489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}