{"id":21,"date":"2022-12-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota1.wpengine.com\/cotaforfinleystrong\/2022\/12\/29\/finley-strother-update-12-29-2022\/"},"modified":"2022-12-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-12-29T00:00:00","slug":"finley-strother-update-12-29-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforfinleystrong\/2022\/12\/29\/finley-strother-update-12-29-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Finley Strother Update &#8211; 12-29-2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Everyone!<\/p>\n<p>I hope you all have had a great Christmas!&nbsp; Finley enjoyed unwrapping presents and spending time with his family.&nbsp; Since Thanksgiving, we&#8217;ve had a lot of changes with Fin.&nbsp; His Leucine ultimately spiked to 615 (normal range 50-200).&nbsp; We are still unsure what caused the abrupt spike but theorize it could have been additional food intake or a short term illness (which he hides well!).&nbsp; We ended up making a formula change and received lab results yesterday and his Leucine is now 72!&nbsp; We&#8217;ve also discontinued bottles by mouth and give his formula exclusively via pump and g-tube.&nbsp; He is doing great with eating foods and drinks plenty of water out of a straw sippy cup.&nbsp; We also went to transplant clinic this week and re-certified his listing status as 1B.&nbsp; Now that he has been listed for over a year, we should be steadily climbing the list.&nbsp; All of his transplant labs were normal and the Doctors have no concern with moving forward.&nbsp; All in all, Fin is doing great and awaiting the &#8220;phone call&#8221;.&nbsp; Until then, we will keep living life to the fullest!&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Hope you all have a safe and Happy New Year!<\/p>\n<p>Love,<\/p>\n<p>The Strothers<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/2516\/images\/Fin%20Christmas.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"612\" height=\"816\" \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Good Morning Everyone! I hope you all have had a great Christmas!&nbsp; Finley enjoyed unwrapping presents and spending time with his family.&nbsp; Since Thanksgiving, we&#8217;ve had a lot of changes with Fin.&nbsp; His Leucine ultimately spiked to 615 (normal range 50-200).&nbsp; We are still unsure what caused the abrupt spike but theorize it could have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforfinleystrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforfinleystrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforfinleystrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforfinleystrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforfinleystrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforfinleystrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}