Saturday, October 20, 2007

Friday night excitement

Last night as I was getting ready to leave work I followed my normal routine and called home to let Tony know I was on my way. Grayson had been having a lot of cranky afternoons, so I like to let Tony know that the cavalry's on the way. HIs response,"You might as well meet us at the emergency room, Grayson's pulled his tube out." We've been through the ER tube replacement routine before, so I stopped for Taco Bell and drinks on my way. Grayson was a very happy tubeless boy when I arrived and a very unhappy boy with a brand new nasogastric tube when we all left 5 hours later. However, he has suddenly decided that a bottle may be a worthwhile source of nutrition after all. Maybe it was experiencing a stomach that was truly empty, maybe having the tube end in the stomach rather than passung through to the jejunum is an appetite stimulant, all I know is thst for the first time weeks he's had real interest in getting nourishment from something besides his tube. I'm going to offer another bottle in a bit and see how he does.

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