{"id":545,"date":"2008-05-05T21:01:13","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T05:01:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/?p=545"},"modified":"2008-05-05T21:01:13","modified_gmt":"2008-05-06T05:01:13","slug":"so-this-is-a-public-bathroom-huh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/?p=545","title":{"rendered":"So this is a public bathroom huh?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well today was a pretty eventful day for Greyson.\u00a0 We left the house around 9:20 (only about 5 minutes past when we planned on getting out of here!) and headed for Tacoma.\u00a0 We had an appointment to see the GI nurses (that’s gasterointestinal, not military in case you were confused) at 10:30am and then see the pulmonologist people at 11:00am.\u00a0 At 10:45 we asked the receptionist if we were going to have enough time to have Greyson’s g-tube granuloma treated (he still has a little left after his last treatment) before our 11 oclock appointment.\u00a0 She told us to go to the other Dr’s and come back when we were done to have his g-tube treated.\u00a0 So we went to the pulmonologist and saw a bunch of people.\u00a0 His nurse, his RT, the social worker (to make sure we are still socially acceptable, somehow we passed ha!) and his nutritionist.\u00a0 Basically the nutritionist upped his feeds a little and the pulmonolgist upped some of Greyson’s vent settings.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Now from a hospital setting that would be bad.\u00a0 In the hospital the goal is always to turn the vent down so the patient is doing more of the work themselves.\u00a0 With Greyson however the pulmonologist felt that we should turn it up some so he was getting more help, which would take a more of the work of breathing off of him.\u00a0 This way his lungs can rest more and he can devote more energy to simply growing (which includes growing lung tissue, which is obviously very important).\u00a0 He was pleased with Greyson’s progress although clearly his c02 levels (which were measured by an end tital monitor, not a blood gas so they were not super accurate) were still higher than he\/we would like.\u00a0 So now he should have it a bit easier and we will see the pulmonologist again in a month.\u00a0 He did say that by summer we might be at a point where we could start taking him off the vent for periods of time, working to get to the point where he can be off the vent all day and only on it at night.\u00a0 He also treated some granuloma tissue that Greyson had growing out of his neck stoma.<\/p>\n

When he was done they had the GI nurse come down from upstairs to the office we were in and treat his g-tube, and they had the lab lady come and draw his blood there too so we didn’t have to go anywhere.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well today was a pretty eventful day for Greyson.\u00a0 We left the house around 9:20 (only about 5 minutes past when we planned on getting out of here!) and headed for Tacoma.\u00a0 We had an appointment to see the GI … 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-545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-current"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545","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=545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/westfall.raquet.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}