Day 369 - June 19 - Vital Capacity Test

Just a quick update and request (I know I keep saying that - I've got a lot to tell y'all about the anniversary earlier this week, but so far website housekeeping and such has taken much of my blog time. Stay tuned - it'll get here!). Anyway, I wanted to accomplish two things quickly this morning - first, I want to enlist your prayer support for Connor's appointment this morning. Connor has to get his vital capacity tested, which is a measurement of how much air he can draw into his lungs. They did this back in Fresno long ago, and if I recall correctly he was drawing about 50cc's while you and I are drawing as much as 20 times that. The doctors there said he had to draw at least 500cc's to be considered wean-able from the ventilator. I don't know if that's a standard rule of thumb or if that's just a number the Fresno docs pulled out of their hats, but either way I would love to see Connor succeed wildly at this test. It doesn't seem like much - suck some air through this straw, please - but it will be an indicator to our new doctor of Connor's potential, as well as laying a benchmark to measure against later. So your prayers for his success would be greatly appreciated. His appointment is at 10 o'clock this morning, for those who want to be praying...

I did say I wanted to do two things here this morning. The other thing is to invite those of you who are reading this without logging into the site to do so, and this is a good example of why it would benefit you, and the rest of the community, if you did so - the info about Connor's appointment, and a shout-out for prayer, have been up in the member's section since last evening, when Cherié put it out in the Chatterbox. That means that the breaking news and information is available sooner to logged-in members, since it is usually more difficult and time consuming to post up to the blog. Cherié's been logging in to the new site for only a day or so, and she's got many of the basic features of the site figured out and using them, and you'll see much more real-time communication inside the member's section than you will if you don't log in. Plus, we get the benefit of having you taking part in the community! So it's a win-win for all of us when you choose to log in. As I type this, there are six members logged in, and 12 other people on the site who are missing about 90% of the site's new content by not logging in - won't you please come in and join us?

Thank y'all for your prayer support this morning, and for your continued patience as we grow through this transition.

Eric

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