{"id":10418,"date":"2013-07-25T21:25:52","date_gmt":"2013-07-26T04:25:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/?p=10418"},"modified":"2013-07-26T21:14:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-27T04:14:45","slug":"year-2-week-39-day-7-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/2013\/07\/25\/year-2-week-39-day-7-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Year 2 &#8211; Week 40 &#8211; Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan had a decent night of sleep overnight. He had several times where he woke up needing suctioning, and many times where one of the monitors or machines alarmed or beeped and woke him. He had a great nurse and RT in the CVICU that took care to let him get as much rest as possible. They helped me get a few scattered hours of sleep too.<\/p>\n<p>Brendan woke up this morning still seeming weak and tired but he was definitely improved. As the day went on, he took two more solid naps and just kept steadily improving. He started taking interest in his favorite things again, like his sport-top water bottle.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/239b36.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19\" title=\"Week 39 - 239b36.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/239b36.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He even started teasing me with little almost-smiles.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/239b37.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19\" title=\"Week 39 - 239b37.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/239b37.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He played with his favorite apps too. I was just happy to see him alert.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/239b38.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19\" title=\"Week 39 - 239b38.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/239b38.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He even broke out super-concentrating face<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/239b40.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19\" title=\"Week 39 - 239b40.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/239b40.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hour by hour, he kept improving. This is how he tells everyone that he is ready to go home &#8211; standing\/cruising around in the crib, and suctioning his own mouth.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/239b39.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19\" title=\"Week 39 - 239b39.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/239b39.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>After trying to do a day of work and watch Trevor at the same time, Bill came to pick us up to go home. Trevor immediately went for the remote control.<br \/>\n&#8220;Do they at least have cable in this joint?&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/239t23.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19\" title=\"Week 39 - 239t23.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/239t23.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He also sorted oral care kits<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/239bt16.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19\" title=\"Week 39 - 239bt16.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/239bt16.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brendan isn&#8217;t in the corner because he is in trouble, it is just a tight fit with The Whale in the elevator!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/239b41.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19\" title=\"Week 39 - 239b41.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/239b41.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trevor had to bring his own ride<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/239t24.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19\" title=\"Week 39 - 239t24.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/239t24.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;re outta here!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/239bt17.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19\" title=\"Week 39 - 239bt17.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/239bt17.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I think I am starting to hallucinate because I am so tired. My eyes want to cross. I hope Brendan has a really good day tomorrow, we are so glad to have him home again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brendan had a decent night of sleep overnight. He had several times where he woke up needing suctioning, and many times where one of the monitors or machines alarmed or beeped and woke him. He had a great nurse and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/2013\/07\/25\/year-2-week-39-day-7-2\/\">Continue reading <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-10418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10418"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10418\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10423,"href":"https:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10418\/revisions\/10423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}