We are home from the hospital!  Andrew was such a trooper, although the procedure for putting in the feeding tube was not pleasant, his complaints were few.  They gave him some adavan to help him “chill” and he was very loopy and very funny by the time they began.  Then they used lidocaine to numb his nostril.  They inserted the tube up his nose, down his throat and into his stomach.

After the tube was in, Andrew was  a little loopy and didn’t understand why his nose felt so funny so he kept touching his nose, so I had to capture the moment.

He gagged quite a bit after it was in, but no vomit which was great!  He wanted to see what it looked like….

Then he needed an x-ray to ensure it’s placement was correct in his stomach.

Then I left for about 5 minutes to get some bags out of the car, and naughty Andrew had pulled off the tape and was attempting to pull it out.  No worries, he didn’t get to do it and the medications wore off so that he had better reasoning skills and now leaves his nose hose alone.

Thus far he is taking it pretty well, although he is very upset that it was not able to come out before we left the hospital.  The tube is a little irritating right now, but we are told that he will get used to it and will barely know it is there.  We will keep it in until he can eat well enough to keep his calories up.  We will update again soon.  Thank you everyone!

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