{"id":479,"date":"2008-04-11T00:43:36","date_gmt":"2008-04-11T08:43:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/?p=479"},"modified":"2008-04-11T00:43:36","modified_gmt":"2008-04-11T08:43:36","slug":"who-wants-to-go-for-a-walk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/?p=479","title":{"rendered":"Who wants to go for a walk?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well the big day has finally arrived.\u00a0 No not going home day, but getting out of the room and going for a walk!\u00a0 Tonight we loaded Greyson up in his brand new stroller (we had to buy another stroller for twins due to all the “accesories” Greyson has to travel with) and went for a walk about the hospital.\u00a0 We walked around his floor and then went down through the cafeteria and down to the second floor where lets just say we dropped in on some old friends.\u00a0 You would have thought Greyson was a celebrity!\u00a0 Lots of people gathered around and were taking pictures, it was quite the ordeal.\u00a0 The only down side to the whole deal was that Greyson was all tired out and basically slept through the whole experience!\u00a0 How’s that for timing?\u00a0 Finally gets to get out and see the world (well hospital anyway) and all he does is sleep!\u00a0 It was late so I guess it is good that he’s sleeping during this time.\u00a0 I have to admit I was\u00a0a bit nervous for a variety of reasons.\u00a0 First time taking him out (we had an RT with us the whole time as backup), then by going to see old friends I was worried we would get people in trouble, then his sats dropped a little but came right back up.\u00a0 Anyway with all that I was extremely excited and nervous, which led to me sweating like crazy!\u00a0 So we have video of the experience (thanks family for the camera!) but it is way too late for me to try to get that together and onto the blog so you’ll have to live with the pictures.\u00a0 I was gracious and am including three pics to symbolize the magnitude of the day though.<\/p>\n

Part of\u00a0Greyson being tired could be because Stacy and I gave him another bath tonight.\u00a0 This time we did it completely by ourselves.\u00a0 No one else was in the room.\u00a0 We also did his trach care (minus the duct tape) basically on our own as well.\u00a0 We did make sure to check the trach ties a couple times to make sure everything was good.\u00a0 We are feeling pretty comfortable with everything and are slowly getting used to moving Greyson around with his tubing.\u00a0 That means we are ready to bring him home!\u00a0 Tonight we learned how to work the stroller (had to have our RT wait an extra half an hour as we figured out how to hook it all together!) and load everything up.\u00a0 I was tempted to just walk out the door to the car, but I decided the RT may not think that was such a good idea.\u00a0 Keep praying for those nurses (the ones we need to hire for home care!) as that is the main thing standing in our way right now.<\/p>\n

Ok it’s rather late and you all should be in bed.\u00a0 Are you?\u00a0 If not, why not!??\u00a0 I’m going there right now.\u00a0 Tomorrow I have to try to wake up and get to work for awhile before jetting to the hospital to be trained on the ventilator by the home supply RT.\u00a0 Basically this is redundant training since the hospital staff trained us but the home suppliers have to do it and it never hurts to go over this stuff extra times so we know it inside and out.\u00a0 Sleep well everyone and thanks for your prayers and encouraging words!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well the big day has finally arrived.\u00a0 No not going home day, but getting out of the room and going for a walk!\u00a0 Tonight we loaded Greyson up in his brand new stroller (we had to buy another stroller for … 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-479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479","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=479"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/479\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=479"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=479"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=479"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}