{"id":5689,"date":"2012-08-07T21:49:58","date_gmt":"2012-08-08T04:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/?p=5689"},"modified":"2012-08-07T21:51:45","modified_gmt":"2012-08-08T04:51:45","slug":"week-42-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/2012\/08\/07\/week-42-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 42 &#8211; Day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There are no withdrawal symptoms to speak of&#8221; .. says the neurologist. So we start to take down another medication a little at a time and Brendan has a very bad morning. Anxiety, sweating, agitation, restlessness, high heart rate even while asleep. His poor little body is very sensitive to changes in drugs, whether the doctors expect it or not. Fortunately some Tylenol and lots of holding\/rocking got him through and he had a good afternoon. I hope it was a short episode of adjustment to the dose change.<\/p>\n<p>He can take his frustration out on his rings!<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cAaar6k7u2U?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Good thing that the high chair is also a recliner!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/42b01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19\" title=\"Week 42 - 42b01.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/42b01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trevor just says &#8220;Where&#8217;s lunch?! There&#8217;s no service in this joint!&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/42t01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19\" title=\"Week 42 - 42t01.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/42t01.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mmmm camera strap&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/42t02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19\" title=\"Week 42 - 42t02.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/42t02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trevor somehow stole Brendan&#8217;s rainforest from the crib<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/42t03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19\" title=\"Week 42 - 42t03.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/42t03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Maybe if I drool on it, I can keep it&#8221;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/42t04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19\" title=\"Week 42 - 42t04.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/42t04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Brendan did sprint off the ventilator for 2hrs today, and at the same time he was able to do some roly-poly time on the floor. Having just the mist collar on his trach makes it easier to do tummy time because nothing is pulling on his trach tube. He liked tummy time!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/42b02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19\" title=\"Week 42 - 42b02.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/42b02.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Save the rainforest!!&#8221; (from Trevor!)<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/42b03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19\" title=\"Week 42 - 42b03.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/42b03.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>He made a good attempt at roll over!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/42b04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-19\" title=\"Week 42 - 42b04.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/42b04.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Trevor had a lot of fun today. He wants to know if he could join The Bearded One&#8217;s band. He has some really advanced skills that have never been seen before!<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hxxZ9H_59wo?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;There are no withdrawal symptoms to speak of&#8221; .. says the neurologist. So we start to take down another medication a little at a time and Brendan has a very bad morning. Anxiety, sweating, agitation, restlessness, high heart rate even &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/2012\/08\/07\/week-42-day-1\/\">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-5689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updates"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689","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=5689"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5691,"href":"https:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5689\/revisions\/5691"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projectbat.com\/minibat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}