{"id":500,"date":"2008-04-19T22:23:20","date_gmt":"2008-04-20T06:23:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/?p=500"},"modified":"2008-04-19T22:23:20","modified_gmt":"2008-04-20T06:23:20","slug":"first-ill-nap-then-ill-try-out-my-shoes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/?p=500","title":{"rendered":"First I\u2019ll nap, then I\u2019ll try out my shoes"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Tonight when we came in Greyson was all propped up between two large pillows.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Just because he is getting spoiled.\u00a0 I told him not to get to attached to this kind of treatment, because it will be different when he’s home.\u00a0 Today we didn’t spend much time at the hospital (well Stacy is still there but I had to come home for church tomorrow).\u00a0 Instead we continued to put Greyson’s room in order (we had to think a few things through due to all the medical equipment).\u00a0 Then we waited for the home equipment guy to come by.\u00a0 We now have Greyson’s primary ventilator in his room (this will be his primary vent, the one he has in the hospital will be his his “mobile” vent as well as serving as a backup).\u00a0 We also got his pulse oximiter, his oxygen concentrater (makes pure oxygen out of room air), a tank of oxygen (for a backup in case the concentrator fails), and a few other things.\u00a0 Now we have everything we need to bring him home.<\/p>\n

It is a weird feeling to finally be so close to bringing him home.\u00a0 I was reflecting tonight on how it felt on Sunday night\u00a0about seven and a half\u00a0months ago when I took Stacy to our local hospital to have her checked out.\u00a0 I remember thinking how wierd it felt to be rushing off to the hospital late at night and\u00a0 praying that everything was going to be fine and we would go back home for Stacy to finish the pregnancy on bedrest (which if you didn’t know she was on starting two days after finding out she was pregnant, at 19 weeks).\u00a0 Little did I know that we would be staying in that hospital for almost two weeks, with Stacy upside down, before transferring to Tacoma.\u00a0 Less than a week later Greyson was “born” 16 weeks early.\u00a0 Now, just shy of seven months later, we are on the verge of Greyson’s homecoming.\u00a0 I wonder what it will feel like to push him (and all his “extras”) through the door.\u00a0 Do we load him all up in his stroller to get him from the car to the house?\u00a0 Do we unhook him and carry him in and quickly hook him back up to everything?\u00a0 That’s probably the best way, as it could be raining when we get here.\u00a0 These are fun (and a bit scary!) things to be thinking about.\u00a0 Lord willing next week is going to be a really fun, exciting, thrilling, freaky, exhausting, happy, confusing, stressful, interesting week.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Tonight when we came in Greyson was all propped up between two large pillows.\u00a0 Why?\u00a0 Just because he is getting spoiled.\u00a0 I told him not to get to attached to this kind of treatment, because it will be different when … 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-500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500","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=500"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}