{"id":19,"date":"2022-11-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-11-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cota1.wpengine.com\/cotaforteamjackson\/2022\/11\/29\/one-week-later\/"},"modified":"2022-11-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2022-11-29T00:00:00","slug":"one-week-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamjackson\/2022\/11\/29\/one-week-later\/","title":{"rendered":"One Week Later!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday marked one week since the transplant, and things are going well here at home!&nbsp; Both Brady and Jackson had checkups today and both are healing well.&nbsp; While still are both sore at their incision sites, neither are using pain medication any more.<\/p>\n<p>The doctors will continue to monitor Jackson&#8217;s kidney function through the collection and testing of blood samples.&nbsp; The doctors are happy with the results they are seeing, but will continue to keep a close eye on the labs while his body adjusts to the new kidney.&nbsp; He is still on 10 different medications, and they will continue to dial in the dosage his body needs over the next few months.&nbsp; He&nbsp;is quarantining at home while his immune system is compromised (which allows his body to be accepting of the new kidney).&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Jackson is reporting that he is getting his appetite back and that he is starting to feel more energy &#8211; both were at low levels prior to surgery.&nbsp; I would say he is also more relaxed and more animated, which we are so happy to see!&nbsp; So we and thrilled and will continue to celebrate the small successes we are beginning to see as the dust settles from the procedure.<\/p>\n<p>Brady earned his &#8220;donor&#8221; medal today to honor his gesture&nbsp;of donating life!&nbsp; He is also feeling well and slowly getting back to normal.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/2107\/images\/j.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"157\" height=\"210\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cota.org\/uploads\/2107\/images\/medal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"165\" height=\"223\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday marked one week since the transplant, and things are going well here at home!&nbsp; Both Brady and Jackson had checkups today and both are healing well.&nbsp; While still are both sore at their incision sites, neither are using pain medication any more. The doctors will continue to monitor Jackson&#8217;s kidney function through the collection [&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-19","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamjackson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamjackson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamjackson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamjackson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamjackson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cota.org\/cotaforteamjackson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}