{"id":4528,"date":"2008-05-10T20:50:14","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T04:50:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/?p=557"},"modified":"2008-05-10T20:50:14","modified_gmt":"2008-05-11T04:50:14","slug":"i-was-supposed-to-get-moms-present-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/?p=4528","title":{"rendered":"Wait, I was supposed to get mom&#8217;s present??!!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/may-10-001.jpg\" title=\"may-10-001.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/may-10-001.thumbnail.jpg\" alt=\"may-10-001.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well it&#8217;s Saturday night and once again\u00a0I am home alone while the rest of the family hangs out in the hospital.\u00a0 Kind of a bummer.\u00a0 The good news is that Greyson had labs done this morning and at 2pm and his afternoon labs were really good.\u00a0 His sodium and potasium were both back in the normal range.\u00a0 Stacy tells me that tonight he is also looking a little less puffy and is not working hard to breath.\u00a0 They\u00a0 will do labs again tomorrow and hopefully he will continue to stay where he should be.\u00a0 It is highly unlikely we will get to come home tomorrow as they really want to make sure his electrolytes stay where they need to be and that will probably take at least another day, but we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n<p>He was pretty happy today and we got him some toys from the hospital to play with.\u00a0 He is starting to reach out to touch his toys and it is fun to watch him begin to interact with them a little more.\u00a0 Stacy has been such a trooper getting up every 3 hours to pump his meals for him.\u00a0 Everyone is so impressed with how she has kept that up even with all the stress and lack of sleep that she has experienced.\u00a0 For mothers day I would love to give her the day off from that as a vacation, but I&#8217;m not sure how I could fill in.\u00a0 I&#8217;m told there is medicine that might get me some but I think I would have needed to start earlier and even then it wouldn&#8217;t be enough for one meal, let alone a days worth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>So you may be wondering what is happening with the stones.\u00a0 Well apparently nothing is going to be done and we are going to pray he passes it (the big one as well as all the little ones) without complications.\u00a0 Stacy found an article online that seemed to say that kids can often pass larger stones than adults, but his is quite large.\u00a0 It&#8217;s 6 milimeters (or whatever the correct measuring system is).\u00a0 To put that in perspective a few years back Stacy had a stone that was deemed to large to pass and she had to have it blasted to bits in order to get it out of her kidney, hers was 5 milimeters.\u00a0 Either way the poor guy is going to be experiencing considerable discomfort until it passes.\u00a0 So pray for it to break apart (it has been known to happen) and for him to pass it out without problems so he can be done with it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well it&#8217;s Saturday night and once again\u00a0I am home alone while the rest of the family hangs out in the hospital.\u00a0 Kind of a bummer.\u00a0 The good news is that Greyson had labs done this morning and at 2pm and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/?p=4528\">Read More <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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-4528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528","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=4528"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}