Monday, April 19, 2010

What's going on...

Overall we had a nice enjoyable weekend except for Saturday morning/afternoon.  We spent most of Saturday in the ER trying to figure out why Jack spit up - sounds strange, I know, but when you have a NJ feeding tube, you shouldn't spit up because the food is bypassing the stomach and going into the small intestine.  So, we packed up and headed in - of course we figured they would check to see if the tube had moved up into his stomach and depending upon that we would be on our way home - hoping for a fairly quick trip - yeah right.  6 hours later - yes 6 - we were finally on our way home, tube had not moved and the doctors could not explain why he had spit up.  It wasn't normal food/milk spit up and we are now noticing that when we give Jack his medicine in the morning, he seems to gag while we are pushing it through his NJ tube.  I'm planning on calling GI and ENT to let them know about this because I can only figure it is some way related to Jack's reflux and we are trying to calm down the reflux with the feeding tube not make it worse.  So as far as I know he continues to battle reflux which is going to make fixing his cleft more of a problem since the redness and inflammation won't decrease until that's better - seems to be a vicious cycle. 

Outside of our fun trip to the ER, the weekend was great!  Dustin and I enjoyed ourselves at the party on Saturday night.  Grandpa T and Grandma Nell enjoyed babysitting Jack!  We all tried to have a fairly relaxing Sunday. 

Looking forward to getting through another week on the feeding tube and looking towards May!

1 comment:

  1. Oh jacker! ^ hours in the ER? Been there. Why does everything take so long in the ER? At least they do a good job.

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