{"id":199,"date":"2010-11-07T21:48:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-08T03:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/?p=199"},"modified":"2010-11-07T22:03:17","modified_gmt":"2010-11-08T04:03:17","slug":"alertness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/07\/alertness\/","title":{"rendered":"Alertness"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was down at the hospital two evenings after work last week (Tuesday &amp; Thursday), and noticed Chris was <em>much<\/em> more alert than I&#8217;ve ever seen him before.\u00a0 He was pretty reliably turning his head to follow folks around the room, and would turn his head and his gaze toward the source of sounds.<\/p>\n<p>Chris has done these things intermittently in the past, but this was different somehow.<\/p>\n<p>The hospital upped the dosage of the anti-spasticity drug, Dantrium, later in the week, which causes extreme drowsiness, so I didn&#8217;t really get to see any of this new awareness over the weekend.\u00a0 Hopefully we can convince them to tone down the dosage of Dantrium again &#8211; I think the benefits of being awake far outweigh the extra stiffness in his limbs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was down at the hospital two evenings after work last week (Tuesday &amp; Thursday), and noticed Chris was much more alert than I&#8217;ve ever seen him before.\u00a0 He was pretty reliably turning his head to follow folks around the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/07\/alertness\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":204,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199\/revisions\/204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chrisgiles.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}