It’s Feeding Tube Awareness Week, and how fitting, because our brave girl will be getting her g-tube on Friday. What’s a g-tube? A g-tube or gastrostomy tube is a feeding tube placed in the abdomen to deliver nutrition directly to the stomach. There are lots of conditions that might cause someone to need a feeding tube either temporarily or permanently, including: cardiovascular, developmental, endocrin, genetic, GI, immune, neurological, metabolic, swallowing, respiratory, and structural. In the medical world a feeding tube is low on the list of scary interventions. Madison has been fed by an NG tube many times. We...
A Speech Epiphany
You guysssssss, I took Madison to a new facility for a speech evaluation yesterday and it was absolutely INCREDIBLE. Like one of the most helpful and positive appointments I’ve taken her to in a long time. If you read my post on relearning to eat, you know Madison had to work very hard post meningitis on getting her ability to suck back. We spent a lot of time in speech therapy, had a g tube, and eventually got her strong enough to eat orally again. We were discharged from speech early on because her therapist saw no issues with...