15 December 2009

Day 30 – Grayson’s Condition

Dear family and friends

Today was a bit melancholy.

For Grayson, today was little different than most other days. The same pattern – a few hours sleep, followed by 15 to 30 minutes of clarity, then several hours of churning. The churning appears to be getting more "productive" as he is further away from the sedatives. "Productive" because he is getting stronger and he is able to turn over, leap out of bed, try to sit up and the like. The reason "productive" is in quotes, is that none of this is consistently good with cardiac telemetry, feeding tubes, catheter, etc. Strong, however, is good. It will do him service if he is ever able to respond to commands and tolerate rehab. It just requires a bit of extra work on the part of his caregivers.

Tonight is our last night here. Tomorrow Grayson will be transported to a long term acute care (LTAC) facility roughly 20 miles away. We will miss being just 1.8 miles from home. We trust that the facility will have the same caring people that we have come to take for granted here.

Change can be good. Change makes us grow. Change is scary. Our lives have been changed forever by the events of a month ago. Now we are changing locations. Let us hope and pray that we made the right choice of facilities, and that the staff will learn to love Grayson the way that we do. We trust the Lord to keep him safe as we say "good-bye" to our home-away-from-home of the past month.

Pax!

Brant and Regina
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2 comments:

  1. Anonymous16 December, 2009 06:29

    Hi Brant and Regina:

    I remember when I got "good enough" to transfer from Riverside Community Hosp to Health South. What an important milestone. I was literally a bag of bones...they delivered me in a sling to my new bed. And then the work really began, and after months of rehab was able to go home, using a wheel chair and walker, then a quad cane, then a cane, ...then without a cane. And now, three years later, nearly normal, with a few marks left on me to remind me of what He did for me. I pray for Grayson, you and the whole family, that Grayson's transition will be a solid one and that God's provision will sustain you all in ways that will be foundational.

    In Him,

    Doug and Kemi

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  2. Debi Gutierrez16 December, 2009 17:35

    Our family keeps your family and Grayson in our daily prayers. Thank you for sharing such a tender time with us.
    Blessings,
    Debi Gutierrez

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