Nathan Paul

Thursday, August 24, 2006

Nate decided he didn't want feeding tube!!!!!

Nathan decided he didn't need his feeding tube yesterday!!! This is really crazy and I hope I can explain it to ya'll correctly! He was in his bouncy seat, I was sitting right next to him. The next thing I knew he had his button in his hand playing with it!! It took me a minute to realize what he had done. He pulled his feeding tube completely out of his stomach!!! He never cried or made a sound! I called the doctor and rushed him to the ER. The nurses tried 3 times to put it back in, then went and got the doctor. She came in and was determined to push it in while my poor child screamed in pain and terror! Finally, they left the room to "give him a break" and when they did I called every doctor I could think of to try find out what to do! Dr. Brumund responded and said it came out a little earlier than they had wanted but that if we were okay with leaving it out then he was fine with that. Trust Me....we are FINE with leaving it out!!! He hasn't received any feedings through it in two weeks. There really is no reason to have it in. If they decide in the future that he needs it put back in they will surgically put it back, which would be a lot better then these doctors just trying to force it in! It was the craziest thing I have ever seen. By the time we got in the ER the hole had already began to close. There was NO WAY that thing was going back in without surgery or A LOT of pain!! Since we got home he has been fine. He surely doesn't miss it and I don't either! As we are all learning, Nathan makes the decisions on when it is time to do things!!! We have to watch him for a few days just to be sure the stomach lining closes like it is supposed to. They say less than 20% of these will require surgery to close completely, and we all know how nathan likes to be unique!!! Please say a little prayer that everything will close correctly by itself and we won't have any more drama with this!!! On another note I got some new info on doctors for his kidney stones and am waiting on some return calls today. Hopefully we can get some sort of plan with those soon. Even though it was a little traumatic in the ER we now have one less thing to worry about now!!! Yahoo! Go Nathan!!!!

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