{"id":4656,"date":"2010-08-31T01:18:45","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T01:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/?p=4656"},"modified":"2013-10-25T01:20:12","modified_gmt":"2013-10-25T01:20:12","slug":"well-i-was-once-a-micro-preemie-but-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/?p=4656","title":{"rendered":"Well I was once a micro-preemie but now&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After looking at this picture I found myself saying something we\u2019ve been hearing from Dr\u2019s, nurses, and RT\u2019s all week. \u201cI can\u2019t believe how big he\u2019s gotten\u201d!!<br \/>\nWell we are praising the Lord tonight for his goodness to our family. We were able to get home today a bit after 1PM and are so happy to be back home. Greyson instantly crawled over and started playing with his toys once I sat him on the floor. To say that he is happy to be home would be an understatement! He is pretty much acting like our child again and we couldn\u2019t be happier about that.<br \/>\nI do have to say that with his return to normalcy it has made his vocal cord paralasis much more heartbreaking. See up to this point, he hasn\u2019t really tried to talk. He has cried, which comes out as just a raspy hairball kind of sound, but not really talk. Today he has been \u201ctalking\u201d and it just kills you to see his mouth move but no sound come out. OK well sometimes there is a faint whisper but there is no voice whatsoever.<br \/>\nNow I don\u2019t want to be a downer, we are incredibly thankful for where we are. I also have to tell you that once we got home we all laid down in mom and dad\u2019s bed to take a nap and Greyson whispered \u201cdaddy\u201d so very softly, yet clear as a bell. It will no doubt be one of those precious memories that I lock away to remember forever.<br \/>\nWe serve an amazing God and my prayer tonight is that the God who could give a voice to a donkey, will restore the voice of a little boy so that the boy may grow up and use his voice to glorify God each and every day! We also pray that in the meantime God would protect Greyson\u2019s airway while his vocal cords are unable to do that job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After looking at this picture I found myself saying something we\u2019ve been hearing from Dr\u2019s, nurses, and RT\u2019s all week. \u201cI can\u2019t believe how big he\u2019s gotten\u201d!! Well we are praising the Lord tonight for his goodness to our family. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/?p=4656\">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-4656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656","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=4656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4657,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4656\/revisions\/4657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}