{"id":4759,"date":"2025-12-17T06:06:23","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:06:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hopeforgabriel.com\/17-12-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T06:17:53","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:17:53","slug":"17-12-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hopeforgabriel.com\/en\/17-12-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"17\/12\/2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Hello Son,<\/p>\n\n<p>I&#8217;ll start by telling you about your progress.<\/p>\n\n<p>I think you&#8217;re still doing well, despite your teeth coming in and making things a bit tough for you.<\/p>\n\n<p>We&#8217;re continuing your progress to help you get rid of your feeding tube.<br\/>The speech therapists and nutritionist are doing a remarkable job.<br\/>Yesterday, the speech therapist even told us we&#8217;re on the &#8220;home stretch&#8221; and brought us a baby high chair to see how you do.<\/p>\n\n<p>Your breathing is stable. Still on oxygen, but you&#8217;re managing quite well. <\/p>\n\n<p>And as for your motor skills, you&#8217;re continuing to make progress.<\/p>\n\n<p>\n          <strong>These last two days have also been full for you.<\/strong>\n        <\/p>\n\n<p>On Monday, you had a visit from Tia Tia, your godmother Jaqueline, and Tio Tio Rafael. <br\/>They brought you some small gifts and a box of chocolates that didn&#8217;t last long!<\/p>\n\n<p>And yesterday, you had a visit from two people who had come to see you when you were fighting for your life last May.<br\/>I&#8217;m talking about Grandma Michelle and Grandpa Robert.<br\/>You can&#8217;t imagine how happy they were to see you! <\/p>\n\n<p>They brought you a mountain of toys, gifts from all the family and friends from France, medications that cost a fortune in Brazil, health tools we bought in Europe, and also a small stash of sausage, cheese, and chocolate for mom and dad, haha.<\/p>\n\n<p>Originally, before you got sick, the plan was to go to France for Christmas so you could meet your French family, especially your great-grandmother. <br\/>Unfortunately, that&#8217;s not possible, but at least we&#8217;ll have Grandma and Grandpa with us for Christmas.<\/p>\n\n<p>Yesterday, we also posted the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DSVfzZ8ibWE\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">latest family introduction post on Instagram<\/a>, and it was your mom&#8217;s turn. <\/p>\n\n<p>Speaking of your mom, I&#8217;d like to take this opportunity to tell you that she&#8217;s doing an exceptional job with you. <br\/>She looks for the best doctors, the best food, the best care, and all the best things so you can quickly get back on your feet. <br\/>She invests so much in helping you, son. And every day, she prays for you. <\/p>\n\n<p>I have to go quickly, because the days are too short.<\/p>\n\n<p>I love you.<\/p>\n\n<p>Dad<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello Son, I&#8217;ll start by telling you about your progress. I think you&#8217;re still doing well, despite your teeth coming in and making things a bit tough for you. We&#8217;re continuing your progress to help you get rid of your feeding tube.The speech therapists and nutritionist are doing a remarkable job.Yesterday, the speech therapist even [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","iawp_total_views":10,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memoirs-of-a-heros-dad"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeforgabriel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeforgabriel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeforgabriel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeforgabriel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeforgabriel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4759"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/hopeforgabriel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4772,"href":"https:\/\/hopeforgabriel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4759\/revisions\/4772"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hopeforgabriel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeforgabriel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hopeforgabriel.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}