Back from vaction and heading to hospital Info please NG tube

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Hi all

Have to make this short as we have a ton of things to do.

We have spent the past month traveling across country and at boy

scout camp. I have TONS of email to go through, I had to promise Bob

and no email other than short one to familiy while on vaction!

I hope to get caught up with the email within a week.

We got home from vacation the 19th had doctor appointment and

test the 20th and 21st and left the 23rd for Boy scout camp. The

doctors office tried to reach us all last week to have admitted

but never called the cell phone, I will be discussing this with the

doctor. Anyway, is being admitted ot Akron Childrens hospital

tomorrow morning to have a swollow test done than they will put him

to sleep and insert a NG tube into the intestine. His newest films

came back and he is back up more into the small intestine than he was

in May. He has been on Maralox 17 Gr 2X daily and 2 TSP of Benefiber

2X daily for several months and he is worse. So this is the next

step. They tell us that he could be discharged as early as the

evening of the 4th. It normally takes 24-36 hours to " clean " the

bowle out. But they have seen it take several days. Each child is

differnt.

Has anyone gone through this with there kids and what can we expect?

Becky

Mother to , 16, Autism, Epilepsy, Cerebal Palsy, MR, ADHD

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Hi, Becky --

Oh, my...we will definitely add and your family to our prayers.

I do know what a swallow study is like, but as for the rest, I admit I

have no experience with it. A swallow study was done on our youngest,

mainly to see if there were any structural abnormalities causing

feeding problems. They would take x-ray like films of how different

foods went down, from what I remember...it's kind of like if you've

ever had an Upper GI test done at the hospital -- where you drink

Barium (tastes like strawberry-flavored liquefied chalk)and they take X-

rays to see how it goes down. It's not painful.

Keep us posted. I'll be thinking about you.

--Suzanne