{"id":4823,"date":"2019-03-11T23:44:44","date_gmt":"2019-03-11T23:44:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/?p=4823"},"modified":"2019-03-11T23:44:44","modified_gmt":"2019-03-11T23:44:44","slug":"its-not-too-late-to-support-chelsea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/2019\/03\/11\/its-not-too-late-to-support-chelsea\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s Not Too Late to Support Chelsea!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Hello everyone! I wanted to go more in depth about my family and tell you a little more about the Green Bay Cellcom Marathon.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>My husband, Justin, and I met when we were juniors in high school. We fell head over\u00a0heals\u00a0for each other and have been smitten with each other since. Right after high school, I attended UW Stevens Point to get my Bachelors of the Arts in drawing and painting. Near the end of the first semester, I found out I was pregnant with my oldest, Jayson.\u00a0 While I was at school, Justin was at basic training at Fort Jackson, South Carolina.\u00a0 We wrote to each other as much as we could (they were not allowed to use their phones, except Sunday\u2019s for a couple of hours).\u00a0 The poor guy had to do\u00a0push ups\u00a0for every letter he got.\u00a0 In the\u00a0mean time, Justin went off to AIT- Advanced Individual Training (where soldiers go to school to do their job while in the service), at Fort Lee, Georgia while I completed my second semester. Shortly after the end of the school year, Justin was stationed at Fort Riley, Kansas.\u00a0 Jayson arrived on June 16. He was born grey, very pale, and\u00a0pretty quiet.\u00a0 He was whisked away to the NICU where we learned he had a complete AV canal defect (a hole between the atriums and ventricles of the heart).\u00a0 A couple days later, I was relaxing in the hospital bed when a group of doctors came in with a solemn look on their faces.\u00a0 They all crowded themselves into the farthest corner of the room right behind the door and told us they suspected Jayson had Down Syndrome.\u00a0 Immediately, I cried while Justin was sitting there trying to process what they just said. After they left, I asked Justin if we should place Jayson up for adoption. No one in either of our families had anyone with special needs\u2026 I was worried about what they would think or if we could handle this at the age of 19. Plus, he didn\u2019t have the mitten hand or the almond eyes that are typical tells. Justin said no to the adoption and I am so glad he did. Right then, we decided that we are going to do\u00a0what ever\u00a0it takes to make sure Jayson has the best life possible. Jayson has been quite the blessing and has taught us so many different things about life that we probably would never have learned otherwise.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Jayson was a healthy seven pounds 10 ounces at birth and was thriving until he was four months old.\u00a0 He started to go into heart\u00a0failure\u00a0and we couldn\u2019t do anything about it. He started to wear oxygen at all times, his eating lessened to the point where he didn\u2019t really eat at all, and his medicine wasn\u2019t helping him\u00a0anymore .\u00a0 His cardiologist wanted us to wait\u00a0as long as\u00a0possible before he had his heart repair\u2026she had him wait another two months, (December 1<\/span>st<\/span>, 2011). During that wait he was in and out of the hospital, weeks at a time due to Rhinovirus, low oxygen saturation, and RSV.\u00a0 Once, he was flown from the hospital on post, Fort Riley,\u00a0Kansas,,\u00a0to Children\u2019s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City Missouri.\u00a0 At his\u00a0pre operative\u00a0appointment, he developed this deep cough that worried me and the pre op nurse.\u00a0 Luckily, she cleared him to have his surgery (don\u2019t worry guys, he didn\u2019t have a fever or any signs of a cold). The worst part was handing Jayson over to the surgeon, not knowing if he\u2019ll come back alive. Hours later, the surgeon came out and told us everything went well! The relief and the feeling of helplessness was\u00a0overwhelming\u00a0but he was on the mend comfortably in the PICU.\u00a0 He was in the hospital for almost two weeks before he was ready to go home. A few months after his surgery, we started his physical therapy (he was already receiving physical therapy from the Infant and Toddler program) and eventually worked up to occupational and speech therapy over the years.\u00a0 Every winter since, Jayson will have pneumonia at least two times before summer.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/span>Ever since Jayson born, he\u2019s been a quiet, down to Earth little man.\u00a0 He goes with the flow, for the most part, and is a thrill to be around. Jayson will go out of his way to put a smile on everyone\u2019s face.\u00a0 As he got older, he has this spirited side to him that comes out\u00a0when ever\u00a0he has his mind set and boy, you honestly can\u2019t talk him out of it.\u00a0 Jayson is quite the active little man. He\u2019ll play soccer, run, jump, and will show you\u00a0all of\u00a0his fancy dance moves (which are awesome by the way). He enjoys telling jokes, has long elaborate stories, and is the sweetest biggest brother his siblings could ever have.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To support Chelsea and GiGi’s Playhouse Wausau, please use this<\/a> link.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hello everyone! I wanted to go more in depth about my family and tell you a little more about the Green Bay Cellcom Marathon.\u00a0 \u00a0My husband, Justin, and I met when we were juniors in high school. We fell head over\u00a0heals\u00a0for each other and have been smitten with each other since. Right after high school,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":177,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wpo365_audiences":[],"wpo365_private":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4823","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/177"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4823"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4823\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4823"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4823"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gigisplayhouse.org\/wausau\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4823"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}