{"id":36,"date":"2007-04-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-04-21T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2007-04-21T12:25:20","modified_gmt":"2007-04-21T16:25:20","slug":"two-steps-forward-one-step-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/2007\/04\/21\/two-steps-forward-one-step-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Two steps forward; one step back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--StartImportPhoto--><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2007\/04\/297_13169.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-104\" style=\"margin-right: 10px;margin-bottom: 5px\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/files\/2007\/04\/297_13169.jpg\" alt=\"Joy works out with Samantha, her physical therapist.\" width=\"300\" \/><\/a><!--EndImportPhoto--><\/p>\n<p>Joy sat up for 45 minutes for physical therapy yesterday, April 20th.&nbsp;&nbsp;Samantha&nbsp;could see significant improvement in her&nbsp;strength&nbsp;from last week to this.&nbsp; But then during the&nbsp;night, Joy&#8217;s&nbsp;feeding site leaked again, irritating&nbsp;the fragile skin and causing&nbsp;bleeding.&nbsp; She was pale and&nbsp;wanted to keep her eyes closed &#8211; both are clues that she was in pain.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dave put a little more water in the balloon, and I cleansed&nbsp;the skin&nbsp;and smothered the area with&nbsp;protective ointment.&nbsp; We resumed feeding, and the area is staying dry again &#8211; so far.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Continue to pray that the&nbsp;skin at Joy&#8217;s&nbsp;feeding site will heal completely.<\/li>\n<li>Pray that Joy will get her pre-hospital strength back so that she can be up for longer periods of time.<\/li>\n<li>Pray that we will not become discouraged&nbsp;when there are setbacks.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joy is regaining strength, but a setback last night took us by surprise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ethnos360.org\/dave-brendle\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}