{"id":12,"date":"2023-05-27T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-05-27T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota1.wpengine.com\/cotaforoakleystrong\/2023\/05\/27\/push-dwell-drain\/"},"modified":"2023-05-27T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-05-27T00:00:00","slug":"push-dwell-drain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforoakleystrong\/2023\/05\/27\/push-dwell-drain\/","title":{"rendered":"Push. Dwell. Drain."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Turning off&rdquo; ??????. Words we&rsquo;ve all heard a gazillion times, but to Oakley and his family on the morning of April 11, 2023, those two words meant a huge life change ????.<\/p>\n<p>Push. Dwell. Drain. Push. Dwell. Drain. Push dwell drain push dwell drain&hellip; and on and on, in hour-long cycles, for 9-16 hours. Every single night. For almost two years. That, my friends, is peritoneal dialysis. And that&rsquo;s what Oakley needed since neither of his kidneys worked. But that&rsquo;s what changed that April morning &#8211; Oakley&rsquo;s dialysis machine was turned off for the last time, as he got prepped to get a shiny new-to-him kidney. ????????.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &ldquo;Turning off&rdquo; ??????. Words we&rsquo;ve all heard a gazillion times, but to Oakley and his family on the morning of April 11, 2023, those two words meant a huge life change ????. Push. Dwell. Drain. Push. Dwell. Drain. Push dwell drain push dwell drain&hellip; and on and on, in hour-long cycles, for 9-16 hours. [&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-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforoakleystrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforoakleystrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforoakleystrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforoakleystrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforoakleystrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforoakleystrong\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}