{"id":94,"date":"2025-10-01T00:34:12","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T00:34:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformac\/?p=94"},"modified":"2025-10-02T02:32:55","modified_gmt":"2025-10-02T02:32:55","slug":"days-3-and-4-august-4-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformac\/2025\/10\/01\/days-3-and-4-august-4-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Days 3 and 4 &#8211; August 7, 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><br>Mac &amp; the kids love mail. And we&#8217;ve received\u00a0 special artwork that we are hanging in his room.\u00a0 Our address is 334 Main Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201 to send mail.<br>Yesterday Andy got bloodwork done at the adult hospital and Mac at the children&#8217;s hospital. Eddie &amp; Evelyn kept Mac entertained with scratch art and tractors as I met with Mac&#8217;s surgeon, nephrologist and team. And Andy met with his team on the adult side.<br>Mac&#8217;s potassium when we checked it in July was elevated to 6.5 which is dangerous &amp; so his doctor\u00a0 tweaked one of the medicines, and when we checked it today it was back down at 4.9\u00a0<br>He warned us that if it wasn&#8217;t he would have to admit Mac and do dialysis!<br>That being said the tweak a month ago and Gods mercy whew it&#8217;s good! We can proceed<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/fonts.gstatic.com\/s\/e\/notoemoji\/16.0\/2764_fe0f\/72.png\" alt=\"\u2764\ufe0f\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; Psalm 118:8 It is better to trust in the LORD than men (verse sent to me by my brother at the same time this was going on a special verse that grew us spiritually in the ICU a few years ago) continue to pray we stay healthy and potassium is normal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"722\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6596\/2025\/10\/day-3-and-4-722x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-95\" srcset=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6596\/2025\/10\/day-3-and-4-722x1024.jpg 722w, https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6596\/2025\/10\/day-3-and-4-212x300.jpg 212w, https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6596\/2025\/10\/day-3-and-4-768x1089.jpg 768w, https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6596\/2025\/10\/day-3-and-4-1083x1536.jpg 1083w, https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformac\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6596\/2025\/10\/day-3-and-4.jpg 1273w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 722px) 100vw, 722px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mac &amp; the kids love mail. And we&#8217;ve received\u00a0 special artwork that we are hanging in his room.\u00a0 Our address is 334 Main Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15201 to send mail.Yesterday Andy got bloodwork done at the adult hospital and Mac at the children&#8217;s hospital. Eddie &amp; Evelyn kept Mac entertained with scratch art and tractors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2336,"featured_media":92,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-94","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.6 (Yoast SEO v26.6) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Days 3 and 4 - August 7, 2025 - COTA for Mac<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaformac\/2025\/10\/01\/days-3-and-4-august-4-2025\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Days 3 and 4 - August 7, 2025\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mac &amp; the kids love mail. 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