{"id":1217,"date":"2013-10-30T09:55:40","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T16:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/?p=1217"},"modified":"2013-10-30T09:55:34","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T16:55:34","slug":"ray-of-hope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/30\/ray-of-hope\/","title":{"rendered":"Ray of Hope"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The last 24 hours have been very encouraging.\u00a0 Now that Angie is on an unrestricted diet and she’s had some fluids, she’s feeling much better.\u00a0 She still isn’t walking yet, but I don’t think it will be much longer before she is.\u00a0 She’s stood for a few minutes at a time by the bed (and plugged in for monitoring) and hasn’t had any problems yet.\u00a0 This morning I finally had enough appetite to eat a regular breakfast.\u00a0 I think the plan is to still do the hepatopulmonary syndrome test today, just to make sure, but I think the general consensus is that it will come back negative.<\/p>\n

Angie had some x-rays this morning and they wheeled her away in a wheelchair and she sat the whole time without difficulty.\u00a0 She was on oxygen, of course, but she’s been trying to sit up a lot over the last day or so.\u00a0 Angie is very goal oriented when she wants something.\u00a0 Ever since the doctors gave her some objectives, she’s been working hard.\u00a0 She’s anxious to get home, so she’s going to press the doctors this morning to give her a list of things she has to do before she can go.<\/p>\n

On Monday, when things were looking pretty glum and Angie wasn’t getting better (and slowly getting worse), I was starting to get a bit discouraged.\u00a0 When they took her away to do the catheterization for the second time to look for shunts or other problems, I was sitting in the hospital room looking out the window.\u00a0 We have a magnificent view of the construction just across the way.\u00a0 We’ve watched over the course of a week as they made slow progress on the new building.\u00a0 The workers had gone home for the day and the site was deserted.\u00a0 The sky was starting to look gray with dark clouds across the sky.\u00a0 The gloom reminded me of the despair I was feeling inside.\u00a0 As I looked out, I saw a beam of light peeking through.\u00a0 I thought about the desperate bit of hope I felt and how similar it was to that little beam of light against the dark sky.\u00a0 I admired it and then went back to my laptop.\u00a0 A couple of minutes later, the clouds broke is such a way that the sun shone directly into the window and light streamed into our room.\u00a0 I looked up at the sun through the window and the light was so bright that I could hardly see the dark clouds that filled the sky.\u00a0 It was a beautiful moment.\u00a0 I knew there were still things we would have to get through, and questions we still needed answered, but somehow I felt a little better about it.\u00a0 Several more beams of light shone through the clouds over the 30 minutes or so and so I snapped a picture with my camera to remind me of the experience.<\/p>\n

Thank you all for your kindness and support during this difficult time for us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The last 24 hours have been very encouraging.\u00a0 Now that Angie is on an unrestricted diet and she’s had some fluids, she’s feeling much better.\u00a0 She still isn’t walking yet, but I don’t think it will be much longer before she is.\u00a0 She’s stood for a few minutes at a time by the bed (and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_options":[]},"categories":[21,8,13],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8WrW-jD","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1220,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1217\/revisions\/1220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.angieandjim.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}